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Princess Elizabeth in the Quadrangle, Windsor Castle, receiving the Colonel’s Colour of the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards on 21 April 1944, her 18th birthday
21 Apr 1944RCIN 2999897
Princess Elizabeth had been appointed Colonel of the Grenadier Guards on her sixteenth birthday in 1942. On her eighteenth birthday, Colonel J.A. Prescott of the Grenadier Guards presented the Princess with her Colonel’s Colour in a ceremony at Windsor Castle. The actual Colour with which she was presented can be seen in the Guard Chamber in the State Apartments at Windsor Castle.
