Queen Elizabeth II: Saluting the Armed Forces' Commander-in-Chief

Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-reigning monarch, has died aged 96.

The Queen's relationship with the Armed Forces was a centrepiece of her reign – a special relationship forged in the dark days of the Second World War, and then, as monarch, front and centre of her duties as Commander-in-Chief.

For 70 years she watched over Britain's three services and all those who served, always honoured to meet them as much as they were honoured to meet their Queen.

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• 'A quirk of fate': The Queen and Prince Philip's fateful 1939 meeting at Dartmouth's naval college

Forces News looks back at that special relationship and the legacy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth.