In pictures: Queen's early photos

Childhood photos of the Queen are included in a book to mark her 80th birthday. One shows the young princess on a Shetland pony, a gift from her grandfather King George V.

Among the historic photos is one showing four-year-old Princess Elizabeth with her grandmother Queen Mary in 1930.

A photo from 1930 shows the young princess sitting on her own in a horse-drawn landau outside her first London home at No. 145 Piccadilly.

In a letter penned by the Queen when she was five, she thanks her grandmother Queen Mary for a doll's house

Young princess Elizabeth is shown with the Countess of Airlie in the book, Queen Elizabeth II: A Birthday Souvenir Album.

The eight-year-old princess was pictured in a ruffled-sleeve dress when she was a bridesmaid at the wedding of her uncle Prince George, Duke of Kent, to Princess Marina of Greece.

A glimpse of royal family life in 1933 is revealed in a photo taken outside the miniature house, known as 'Y Bwthyn Bach", at Royal Lodge.

Seven-year-old Princess Elizabeth told her grandmother she had lost a front tooth and enjoyed a fancy-dress party in 1934.

A photo from 1935 shows the Queen with Hungarian sculptor Sigismund de Strobl in his studio next to a marble sculpture of herself.

By November 1938, the future monarch's handwriting was smaller and grown-up as she tells her grandmother her news.

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