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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
John Walsh

RARE PHOTOS: The queen is dead the face that launched a thousand likenesses - The Real Truth

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She has been the face on our bank notes for 60 years, subtly aged in successive engravings and given, in the last few years, a slightly inauthentic smile at the corners of the mouth.

Until we stopped writing letters, her face appeared on the top-right corner of every envelope we mailed.

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