King Charles’ official Coronation portraits gave an insight into His Majesty’s idea of a slimmed-down monarchy – with one shot showing the working royals all together.
The image features 10 members of The Firm alongside the King and Queen Consort Camilla – including well-known faces such as Princess Anne, Prince William, Kate Middleton, Prince Edward and Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh.
But while the woman standing in between the Duchess and Duke of Edinburgh may be unrecognisable to many – she has been described as the 'unsung heroine' of the Royal Family.
She is Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy, who was a first cousin and close friend of Queen Elizabeth II.
Alexandra, 86, was even a bridesmaid at the late Queen's wedding to Prince Philip in 1947.
She was born Alexandra Helen Elizabeth Olga Christabel on Christmas Day in 1936 – sixth in line to the British throne.
Daughter of the late Queen's uncle, Prince George of Kent, and his wife, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, Alexandra spent much of her childhood in Buckinghamshire.
She then lived with her grandmother, Queen Mary, during the Second World War and sadly lost her father, Prince George, who died in a plane crash while serving in the RAF in 1942.
Alexandra became the first British princess to be educated at a boarding school, aged 11, and she went on to study in Paris and also trained at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.
She wed British businessman Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in 1963 – in a ceremony that was broadcast around the world and watched by 200 million people. Princess Anne, the late Queen’s only daughter, was among Alexandra’s bridesmaids for the occasion.
Alexandra and Angus went on to have two children James, born in 1964, and Marina, born in 1966, although neither has a royal title.
Sir Angus was knighted in 1988 but died in 2004 following a battle with throat cancer. He was buried at Frogmore in the grounds of Windsor Castle - and Alexandra has not remarried.
Alexandra has completed around 120 engagements a year for decades and is considered one of the most active and hardest working members of the Royal Family.
The Royal Family's website, which still lists Alexandra as a working member of The Firm, says: "She is patron or president of over 100 organisations which reflect her wide-ranging interests, from the arts to health care.
"She also supported Queen Elizabeth in her duties as Head of State, attending ceremonial occasions alongside other members of the Royal Family."
Alexandra is Joint-President of Cancer Research UK, patron of Alzheimer's Society, patron of the Florence Nightingale Foundation, and also as Deputy President of the British Red Cross Society.
The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, Essex is named after her after she opened it in 1965.
And, in the official photograph that is notable by Prince Harry’s absence, the unsung heroine takes up her rightful place among the hard-working senior royals.
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