Queen Elizabeth II and her prime ministers

Photo poll results revealed...

It’s unlikely any prime minister made Her Late Majesty as happy as her corgis!

Hi Royal Clubbers,

King Charles welcomed the third prime minister of his short reign yesterday in the shape of Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer. Here’s a picture of the pair shaking hands in Buckingham Palace.

King Charles and Keir Starmer will be seeing a lot more of each other

The relationship between monarch and prime minister is a somewhat strange but nonetheless symbolically important one, as Emily explained in her newsletter this week. Please do read it here if you missed it. And talking of this week, don’t forget we launched a brilliant new weekly post on Friday: the royal week in pictures.

While King Charles is greeting prime ministers at quite the frequency, he is still some way off his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, who met 15 over the course of her 70-year reign. On Thursday, we delved into the archives to show you five pictures of Her Late Majesty with a different prime minister in each one – and then asked you to vote for your favourite.

We can now reveal the winner of the poll is…