Queen opens home movies vault to give rare glimpse into private life

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A new documentary featuring unseen video from the Queen’s young life promises to offer a glimpse of ‘the fun behind the formality’. Never-before-seen footage includes a shot of a beaming young princess showing off her engagement ring to the camera.

The BBC was granted access to hundreds of hours of footage filmed by the royals themselves stretching back to the monarch’s childhood

Her 70 years on the throne and early life as a princess have resulted in the Queen being perhaps the most filmed and photographed woman of all time. ‘I think there’s a difference to watching a home-movie when you know who it is on the other side of the lens, holding the camera. It adds to the sense of intimacy.

‘Like many families, my parents wanted to keep a record of our precious moments together. And when it was our turn with our own family, we did the same. The footage has been kept privately by the Royal Collection in the vaults of the British Film Institute. Princess Margaret and Princess Elizabeth playing with their father at Royal Lodge in Windsor in 1940. The Queen granted the BBC unprecedented access to hundreds of home-made recordings Footage shot by The Queen and Philip in Canada in 1951, her first solo tour, shows the young couple relaxing, a side of royal life omitted from the newsreel footage of those early official occasions.

 

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