Royal Babies: 1950-1959
From the Country Life Archive: Frontispieces from 1950-1959 of royal babies.


Her Royal Highness Princess Anne who celebrated her third birthday last week Country Life, August 23, 1953
H.M. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother with Prince Charles and Princess Anne. A happy and informal photograph taken on the terrace at Royal Lodge, Windsor Country Life, May 6, 1954
Her Majesty the Queen with Their Royal Highnesses Prince Charles and Princess Anne Country Life, January 6, 1955
Her Royal Highness Princess Anne who celebrated her sixth birthday last week Country Life, August 23, 1956
The Royal Family and their horses. Her Majesty the Queen, Their Royal Highnesses Princess Margaret, Prince Philip, Prince Charles and Princess Anne starting for a ride in the Park at Windsor. By gracious permission of Her Majesty the photograph was specially taken for the twenty-first birthday number of RIDING Country Life, May 23, 1957
H.M. The Queen and H.R.H. Princess Anne. A new portrait, taken in the grounds of Buckingham Palace, of H.M. The Queen with Princess Anne, who last week celebrated her seventh birthday Country Life, August 22, 1957
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Agnes has worked for Country Life in various guises — across print, digital and specialist editorial projects — before finally finding her spiritual home on the Features Desk. A graduate of Central St. Martins College of Art & Design she has worked on luxury titles including GQ and Wallpaper* and has written for Condé Nast Contract Publishing, Horse & Hound, Esquire and The Independent on Sunday. She is currently writing a book about dogs, due to be published by Rizzoli New York in September 2025.
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