With her hands clasped together, a slightly mischievous smile on her face and a string of pearls around her neck, it is a pose that many have come to expect from Britain's longest-serving Monarch.And today a newly revealed picture from a collection of rarely seen private family photographs – recently sold at auction – shows that Her Majesty even adopted the familiar stance as a two-year-old.Her maturity at that age impressed Winston Churchill, who met her at Balmoral in September 1928. Writing to his wife Clementine, he described the young 'Lilibet' as 'a character', adding that: 'She has an air of authority and reflectiveness astonishing in an infant.'
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