Lovely in lime! Queen boards train to London after Sapphire Jubilee milestone

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The Queen looked happy as she made the journey by train back to London from Norfolk

Wearing a lime green coat and a headscarf, the monarch was photographed boarding a train at King's Lynn station.

The Queen traditionally spends the Christmas and new year period at her private Sandringham estate in Norfolk.

On Monday, the head of state made history by becoming the first British monarch to reach their Sapphire Jubilee.

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Queen Elizabeth II is the first British monarch to reach their Sapphire Jubilee

It was 65 years to the day since the Queen acceded to the throne following the death of her father, George VI, on February 6 1952.

As she has in previous years, the Queen spent Accession Day privately at Sandringham.

At King's Lynn station, the Queen appeared to have fully recovered from the heavy cold that blighted the start of her break and forced her to miss church over Christmas.

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The Queen appeared to have fully recovered from the heavy cold

Queen Elizabeth II in pictures
Fri, January 27, 2017

Queen Elizabeth II making her Royal visits in her many colourful and elegant outfits.

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Queen Elizabeth looks towards a man dressed in traditional costume as she arrives to view an exhibition on Fiji at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia in Norwich, eastern England

But during the period, the Queen was still working on her famous red box of official papers.

The red boxes, sent to her by her private secretaries, contain policy papers, cabinet documents, telegrams, letters and other state papers from government ministers and representatives in Commonwealth and foreign countries.

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