19 Pics That Prove Queen Elizabeth II Was the Best Grandma Ever

The world is mourning the loss of the United Kingdom’s longest-reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. But besides being a sovereign, she was a mother of four, a grandma of eight, and a great-grandmother of 12.

We at 5-Minute Crafts have made a collection of the most iconic photographs that capture the precious moments of the Queen bonding with her (great) grandchildren.

1. The Queen and her first grandson, Peter Phillips, in 1978.

2. The Queen enjoying her chat with Prince Harry.

3. Little Princess Zara sitting on the lap of her grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, in 1989.

4. The Queen talking to her great-grandson, Prince George of Cambridge, in 2015.

5. Year 1984. The British monarch is at the Horse Society Centenary displays in Windsor Park with her grandchildren Zara and Peter.

6. Members of the royal family watching an RAF flypast from the iconic balcony, 1980.

7. The celebration of the Platinum Jubilee, in June 2022. The Queen is enjoying her time with her great-grandson, Prince Louis.

8. The Queen and Prince Harry, in the video announcing the Invictus Games, 2016.

9. The Platinum Jubilee, 2022. Prince William’s children are joining The Queen on the Buckingham Palace balcony.

10. Two very happy great-grandparents.

11. Little Prince George demonstrating his cooking skills to his father William, then Duke of Cambridge, grandpa Charles, the Prince of Wales at that time, and his great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II.

12. The Queen with her successors.

13. Family joy

14. The Queen’s Christmas Message, 2019, with lots of family portraits framed on Her Majesty’s desk.

15. Queen Elizabeth II reading to her granddaughter Zara at Windsor Horse Show in 1987.

16. The Queen visiting her grandson Peter in Port Regis School in 1991.

17. The Queen with Zara Phillips in 2012.

18. London, December 2006. Visible affection between grandma and the granddaughter.

19. Sandringham Museum, 1988. The Queen with her son and four grandchildren.

What’s your favorite memory of your grandmother?