LICENSED TO DRIVE – AT 18

Although the Queen never took a driving test, she was taught to drive at her own insistence when she served as a subaltern with the Auxiliary Territorial Service in 1945, aged 18. By the end of the war she was a fully qualified driver. Here her driving permit tells us that she has blue eyes, is 5ft 4in tall and has light brown hair. In the 60s she told the Labour MP Barbara Castle that her service in the ATS was the only time she had ever been able to measure herself against others of her age, having never been to school or college.