7up of Britain's Elizabeth

Britain's former Queen Mum "7up" slideshow: the first photo is when she was seven years old. Then there is one taken every seven years after that. She was the mother of the current Queen Elizabeth. I am told she was not known as Queen Elizabeth I, as I phrased it in the video (she was not born royalty but married royalty). Sorry about that.

She lived to be 101. The video is 101 seconds long.

"7up" refers to movies made of interviews of a number of British people since they were seven (1964), and once every seven years since then. "49up" was the most recent one. Clearly, Elizabeth was also British.

Her birth name was Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon.

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• aging

[tjmooney]

Elizabeth I was the daughter of Henry VIII. This Queen Elizabeth was "only" a Queen Consort, so she didn't get a numeral after her name. Her daughter, Elizabeth II, gets the numeral because she is Queen in her own right. Interesting video though.

[56kmodem]

Oops. Thanks for clearing that up. I'll fix the description, but I probably won't fix the video.

[ukuk2012ukukuk2012uk]

@56kmodem hes right u know there the british royals not englands im from northern ireland and i love our royal family

[wehateceltic]

thanks mate

[324wilson]

RIP Queen mum!

[konstantinop]

Nice Video Rare Images Well Done!

[56kmodem]

Okay, I changed that in the title and description. In the video I could not change that. Thanks.

[wehateceltic]

BRITAIN'S not england's

[56kmodem]

I forgot the library books. The library was a very helpful resource for Elizabeth. I have a scanner.

[56kmodem]

With Chaplin, I have a fair-sized collection of books about him, which usually they tell when the photo was taken. And of course I get the birth date and figure the age out for each, looking for ones that are at that 7-year interval. Then the rest of the photos are from various online sources, which is what I mainly relied on for Elizabeth. It did take some work.

[56kmodem]

No, I don't, sorry. It's surprisingly difficult to find people who lived to an old age who were photographed so frequently during their life. I thought Eleanor Roosevelt, but, in later years, she always seemed to be photographed from a distance, which isn't going to work. Katharine Hepburn may be one I could manage, someday. I also looked for people who lived to be an old age, and who have died, so that narrows the field a lot.

[marinello6]

She looks like my German grandmother. They could have been sisters.