Queen Elizabeth II Pictured With World Leaders During Her Record-Breaking Reign

    As Queen Elizabeth II becomes the longest-reigning British monarch, we look back on some of her many encounters with world leaders.

    Laura Gallant
    by Laura Gallant

    BuzzFeed Staff

    Harry S. Truman, US president, 1951

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    In Washington, DC.

    Sir Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee, and Anthony Eden, UK prime ministers, and Frederick James Marquis, 1952

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    Heathrow Airport, London.

    Sir Winston Churchill, UK prime minister, 1953

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    Dwight D. Eisenhower, US president, 1959

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    At the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway.

    Sir Anthony Eden, UK prime minister, 1959

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    At the Banquet Hall, London.

    Harold Macmillan, UK prime minister, 1960

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    At Oxford University.

    John F. Kennedy, US president, 1961

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    With Jacqueline Kennedy at Buckingham Palace.

    Richard Nixon, US president, 1969

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    Buckingham Palace, London.

    Edward Heath, UK prime minister, 1974

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    At Heathrow Airport, London.

    Harold Wilson, UK prime minister, 1976

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    Outside 10 Downing Street, London.

    Gerald Ford, US president, 1976

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    Washington, DC.

    Jimmy Carter, US president, 1977

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    At the blue drawing room in Buckingham Palace.

    James Callaghan, UK prime minister, in 1977

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    At Windsor Castle (left) and at Heathrow Airport (right).

    Margaret Thatcher, UK prime minister, 1979

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    In Lusaka, Zambia.

    Ronald Reagan, US president, 1982

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    At Windsor Castle, England.

    Vigdis Finnbogadottir, president of Iceland, 1990

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    François Mitterrand, president of France, and Helmut Kohl, chancellor of Germany, 1991

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    Buckingham Palace, Windsor, England.

    George H. Bush, US president, 1991

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    With Barbara Bush at the White House, Washington, DC.

    Bill Clinton, US president, 1994

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    At a celebratory banquet for the 50th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy at Guildhall, London.

    Ezer Weizman, president of Israel, 1997

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    At the Horse Guards Parade in London, United Kingdom

    Romano Prodi, prime minister of Italy, 1998

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    At Buckingham Palace.

    Nelson Mandela, president of South Africa, 2000

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    At Buckingham Palace in Windsor, England.

    Wen Jia-bao, prime minister of the People's Republic of China, 2004

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    At Buckingham Palace.

    Junichiro Koizumi, prime minister of Japan, 2005

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    At the G8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland.

    Tony Blair, UK prime minister, 2007

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    At the Falkland Islands Memorial Chapel at Pangbourne College.

    George W. Bush, US president, 2007

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    On the balcony of the White House, Washington, DC.

    Gordon Brown, UK prime minister, 2010

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    At Buckingham Palace.

    Barack Obama, US president, 2011

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    At a state banquet at Buckingham Palace, London, on 24 May 2011.

    John Major, UK prime minister, 2012

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    At Marlborough House, London.

    François Hollande, president of France, 2014

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    At the Elysee presidential palace in Paris following the international D-Day commemoration ceremony on the beach of Ouistreham, Normandy.

    David Cameron, UK prime minister, 2015

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    At a Magna Carta 800th anniversary commemoration event on 15 June 2015 in Runnymede, Surrey.