Queen Elizabeth II Pictured With World Leaders During Her Record-Breaking Reign
As Queen Elizabeth II becomes the longest-reigning British monarch, we look back on some of her many encounters with world leaders.
Harry S. Truman, US president, 1951
In Washington, DC.
Sir Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee, and Anthony Eden, UK prime ministers, and Frederick James Marquis, 1952
Heathrow Airport, London.
Sir Winston Churchill, UK prime minister, 1953
Dwight D. Eisenhower, US president, 1959
At the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway.
Sir Anthony Eden, UK prime minister, 1959
At the Banquet Hall, London.
Harold Macmillan, UK prime minister, 1960
At Oxford University.
John F. Kennedy, US president, 1961
With Jacqueline Kennedy at Buckingham Palace.
Richard Nixon, US president, 1969
Buckingham Palace, London.
Edward Heath, UK prime minister, 1974
At Heathrow Airport, London.
Harold Wilson, UK prime minister, 1976
Outside 10 Downing Street, London.
Gerald Ford, US president, 1976
Washington, DC.
Jimmy Carter, US president, 1977
At the blue drawing room in Buckingham Palace.
James Callaghan, UK prime minister, in 1977
At Windsor Castle (left) and at Heathrow Airport (right).
Margaret Thatcher, UK prime minister, 1979
In Lusaka, Zambia.
Ronald Reagan, US president, 1982
At Windsor Castle, England.
Vigdis Finnbogadottir, president of Iceland, 1990
François Mitterrand, president of France, and Helmut Kohl, chancellor of Germany, 1991
Buckingham Palace, Windsor, England.
George H. Bush, US president, 1991
With Barbara Bush at the White House, Washington, DC.
Bill Clinton, US president, 1994
At a celebratory banquet for the 50th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy at Guildhall, London.
Ezer Weizman, president of Israel, 1997
At the Horse Guards Parade in London, United Kingdom
Romano Prodi, prime minister of Italy, 1998
At Buckingham Palace.
Nelson Mandela, president of South Africa, 2000
At Buckingham Palace in Windsor, England.
Wen Jia-bao, prime minister of the People's Republic of China, 2004
At Buckingham Palace.
Junichiro Koizumi, prime minister of Japan, 2005
At the G8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland.
Tony Blair, UK prime minister, 2007
At the Falkland Islands Memorial Chapel at Pangbourne College.
George W. Bush, US president, 2007
On the balcony of the White House, Washington, DC.
Gordon Brown, UK prime minister, 2010
At Buckingham Palace.
Barack Obama, US president, 2011
At a state banquet at Buckingham Palace, London, on 24 May 2011.
John Major, UK prime minister, 2012
At Marlborough House, London.
François Hollande, president of France, 2014
At the Elysee presidential palace in Paris following the international D-Day commemoration ceremony on the beach of Ouistreham, Normandy.
David Cameron, UK prime minister, 2015
At a Magna Carta 800th anniversary commemoration event on 15 June 2015 in Runnymede, Surrey.