Flashback to Windsor Castle 1943, with Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret playing Aladdin and Princess Roxana in home-made outfitsIt is the Queen, but not as we have come to know her. Over the years the nation has become familiar with her pastel-coloured coats, her floral dresses, her ballgowns. But once she dressed up as Aladdin: and now the pantomime outfit worn by Princess Elizabeth in a performance at Windsor Castle is to go on display for the first time. It is among more than 30 outfits representing key moments in her life that are to go on show at an exhibition at Windsor. During the Second World War Princess Elizabeth and her sister Margaret spent much of their…

Source: The Times August 18, 2016 10:52 UTC