Oxfordshire residents recounted their memories of the Queen during her 70-year reign, sharing photos of her visits and previous celebrations ahead of the Platinum Jubilee.
Rachel Midgley, who is based near Florence Park, shared photos from when the Queen visited Oxford University's Christ Church College on March 28, 2013, to give out Maundy Money.
The Queen was wearing a royal blue cashmere coat, dress and hat by Angela Kelly, who is still the Queen's in-house designer.
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Dr Midgley said: "I took my two small boys along, specifically so they could see the Queen and we were in Tom Quod but sadly not part of the cathedral service itself.
"Everyone was very excited but it was a 'hushed' excitement, dignified and calm."
During the service, the Queen walked around the cathedral, assisted by the Yeomen of the Guard, to hand out the coins to Maundy recipients from Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire.
This was not the first time Dr Midgley had seen the Queen at Christ Church, as the Oxford University graduate was invited along with other students to lunch with the queen at the college in 1982 when she was studying.
She said: "As an undergraduate I secured a place at the lunch with her via the college ballot.
"I wasn't sat with her on High Table but further down the hall so no small talk stories to share or pictures"
Becca Collacott shared her memories from the Queen's Silver Jubilee in 1977, where she celebrated at the Abbey Gardens and Meadow in Abingdon.
The Nurse Associate at Abingdon Community Hospital, who was around seven years old at the time, said: "I don’t really remember much about it except sadly I didn’t catch a jubilee bun.
"I had to wait for Charles & Diana’s wedding bun throw to catch my first bun!
"I do remember my mum decorating the house red white and blue and going to the celebrations.
"I also remember winning a 1977 Jubilee plate in the raffle at infant school. My mum still has it up in her loft."
Ms Collacot shared a great photo from the day she caught a bun, at eleven years old, and shared memories from celebrating the Queen's Golden Jubilee in 2002 and photos she's kept from the Queen's Diamond jubilee in 2012.
She said: "By [2002] I had my own family and we lived in a lovely friendly close and set up BBQs everyone chipped it and we had a lovely day celebrating.
"Then 2012 we had a family bbq."
The photos show the family setting up Union Jack bunting, and wearing popular face cut-outs of Prince Phillip and Queen Elizabeth II.
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This story was written by Shosha Adie.
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