A look back at Queen Elizabeth’s spirited youth with royal family archive footage

As Queen Elizabeth II marked her 94th birthday, the British royal family looks back at her life with private archive footage of the monarch from over the years.

The official Twitter account of the royal family shared home videos of Her Majesty, with her family from her days of yore, with a more carefree and younger, then Princess Elizabeth.

"Thank you for your messages today, on The Queen’s 94th birthday. In this private footage from @RCT, we see The Queen, then Princess Elizabeth, with her family, including her younger sister Princess Margaret,” the tweet read.

Quite a lot of the footage had been shot before she was aware of her future as the crowned head of Britain. 

On Tuesday, the Queen spent her birthday at Windsor Castle with husband Prince Philip while she, for the first time in her 68-year reign, scrapped off her customary formalities including a formal gun salute and a parade.

Instead, the monarch marked her big day in a low-key manner with a virtual party on video conferencing platform Zoom, where she was joined by the rest of the royal family members for the special occasion, including newly-exited members Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.