Elizabeth moved to Windsor Castle and sequestered there as a precaution due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Elizabeth celebrated her platinum wedding anniversary, the first British monarch to do so.

Elizabeth and Prince Philip were married at Westminster Abbey.

Elizabeth and her parents made the first royal transatlantic telephone call.

Elizabeth was baptised in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace by the Anglican Archbishop of York, Cosmo Gordon Lang. She was named Elizabeth after her mother; Alexandra after her paternal great-grandmother; and Mary after her paternal grandmother.