Happy Birthday Ma’am! Check Out Official Family Potraits Released To Celebrate Queen Of England Elizabeth II’s 90th Birthday

Three new portraits of Queen Elizabeth taken by celebrated  American photographer Annie Leibovitz were  released on Thursday to mark Britain’s longest-reigning monarch Queen Elizabeth II’s 90th birthday.

Leibovitz, who was responsible for photograping Caithlyn Jenner last year when she was introduced to the world has photographed Elizabeth before in 2007. She took the official pictures for the Queen’s 90th birthday at Windsor Castle, west of London.

The first in the sequence of relaxed images shows the monarch walking with four of her dogs in the castle grounds.

In the second picture, she sits with her two youngest grandchildren and five great-grandchildren in the Green Drawing Room, part of the castle’s semi-State apartments. Youngest great-grandchild Princess Charlotte, the 11-month-old daughter of Prince William and his wife Kate, sits on her lap.

The third portrait, perhaps the rarest  of the lot shows the queen with her daughter Anne, the Princess Royal, in the castle’s White Drawing Room.

Just yesterday a picture showing Prince George  perched proudly on a pile of foam blocks, posing for his very first postage stamp alongside his father, his grandfather – and the great-grandmother was released by the Royal Mail.

Another photo showing the Monarch with her family and that of her inlaws The Middleton was also recently released.

Queen Elizabeths is celebrating her birthday with a walkabout in Windsor, meeting well-wishers. In London, there will be artillery gun salutes at Hyde Park and the Tower of London and parliament was to be lit up red, white and blue.

Born on April 21, 1926, Elizabeth last year surpassed the 23,226-day reign of her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria.

The best people are born in April…lol. Long live the Queen!