Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II - 1926 - 2022

It is with deep sorrow that Olaus Roe joins the country in mourning the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. On this occasion, we thought we might share some photos of when Queen Elizabeth herself was also behind the camera lens…

As well as her Majesty’s love for taking photos with various Leica cameras, she would often use a 16mm cine film camera to capture some moments of her travels.

Top right : Here her Majesty uses her 16mm Bell & Howell camera in Nepal in 1953 while King Mahendra offers shade with an umbrella!
Bottom left: Filming the arrival of the escort ship HMNZS Black Prince with a Kodak 16mm camera, while in the South Pacific en route to Fiji, aboard the SS Gothic, December 1953
Bottom right: Queen Elizabeth II with another 16mm Bell & Howell camera attending the Three Day British Horse Society Trials at Badminton, 9th April 1965