A Royal Sketch: A Year in the Life of The Queen

The Queen handles an award after the Badminton Horse Trials

Here are 20 of the 250 sketches of artist Michael Noakes, depicting a year in the life of Her Majesty. "Noakes was given unprecedented access to the monarch to draw her in private and public on her daily routine and duties, having previously been commissioned to do portraits of the Queen and the Queen Mother," writes The Daily Mail.