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 The Fortune Teller's face was based on a photograph of who?   Sherwood - The Fortune Teller (1953) For the majority of us we have only ever known Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth as our monarch, however for my ninety-one-year-old father, King Charles will be the fourth King he's known (1) . The morning I heard the news of the Queen's death was the anniversary of my mother's passing thirty three years ago. I cried. Mum loved Princess Elizabeth, who later became the Queen of England. She purchased many royalty books over her life time. Her childhood scrap books were filled with magazine and newspaper cuttings of the two princesses, Elizabeth and Margaret growing up, and colourful pictures of flowers, dogs and birds.  (1) George V (died 1936), Edward V111 (abdicated 1936), George V1 (died 1952), Elizabeth (died 2022), King Charles 111.  King George V and Queen Mary with their grand-daughter Princess Elizabeth (The lives of the Kings & Queens of England edite...