The Queen will celebrate her 80th birthday on Friday 21 April and to celebrate Royal Mail has bought out eight stamps showing pictures of her throughout her life. Here she is as a five-year-old child with her mother.
Here she is looking happy and relaxed as a young woman, on holiday on her yacht Britannia
The Queen announced her engagement to Prince Philip in 1947. They've been married for over 50 years
The Queen has attended hundreds of fabulous parties. Here she is shown at a state banquet in Ottawa in 1951 when she was 25
The Queen is shown here smiling and meeting dignitaries at Heathrow Airport aged 75.
Here she is in a casual pose aged 14
The Queen loves horses. Here she is with a horse at the Royal Windsor Horse Show in 1985, when she was 59.
The last stamps issued to mark the Queen's birthday were in 1986, when she was 60. The new set contains two second class stamps (23p), two first class stamps (32p), two 44p stamps and two 72p stamps.
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