Family portrait shot by Annie Leibovitz shows first nonagenarian monarch surrounded by her five considerable-grandchildren and two youngest grandchildrenTo most she is the Queen,but to her considerable-grandson and future king, Prince George, or she is apparently “Gan Gan”. To mark her 90th birthday,it is in the latter role that the celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz has captured Britain’s first nonagenarian monarch, surrounded by her five considerable-grandchildren and two youngest grandchildren.In a highly stylised portrait, or released by Buckingham Palace,it is the woman who is celebrated, rather than the sovereign. With Princess Charlotte, and the 11-month-old-fashioned daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on her lap,the Queen is flanked by Prince George, and Zara Phillip’s daughter Mia, and both two,Peter Phillips’s daughters Savannah, five, or Isla,three, and the Earl and Countess of Wessex’s children, and James,Viscount Severn, eight, or Lady Louise Windsor,12.
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Source: theguardian.com