The Queen paid a touching tribute to her father in her VE speech this evening.
As she spoke to the nation, she wore Boucheron aquamarine and diamond clip brooches given to her on her 18th birthday in 1944 by King George VI.
They Art Deco brooches were displayed publicly at Buckingham Palace during the 2006 Summer Opening exhibition.
They are made of aquamarine and diamonds, and in a typical 1940s design combine baguette, oval and round stones.
The Queen wore the same powder blue dress with the accessories in 2014 during the award ceremony for the Queen's Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education.
It is thought to be one of her favourite pieces of jewellery.
The dazzling brooches can be worn in a number of different ways: as matching clips, on either shoulder.
Her Majesty usually wears them - as she did in her speech - as separate clips, one above the other, on her left shoulder.
Meanwhile, the monarch recorded the address in The White Drawing Room at Windsor Castle and is her second broadcast in five weeks, following her national address about the coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic.
The 9pm slot is the same time her father, King George VI, spoke to the country in a radio address on May 8 1945.
In tonight's address, the Queen said: "I speak to you today at the same hour as my father did, exactly 75 years ago.
"His message then was a salute to the men and women at home and abroad who had sacrificed so much in pursuit of what he rightly called a “great deliverance”.
"The war had been a total war; it had affected everyone, and no one was immune from its impact.
"Whether it be the men and women called up to serve; families separated from each other; or people asked to take up new roles and skills to support the war effort, all had a part to play.
"At the start, the outlook seemed bleak, the end distant, the outcome uncertain.
"But we kept faith that the cause was right - and this belief, as my father noted in his broadcast, carried us through.
"Never give up, never despair - that was the message of VE Day. I vividly remember the jubilant scenes my sister and I witnessed with our parents and Winston Churchill from the balcony of Buckingham Palace.
"The sense of joy in the crowds who gathered outside and across the country was profound, though
while we celebrated the victory in Europe, we knew there would be further sacrifice.
"It was not until August that fighting in the Far East ceased and thewar finally ended."
Her Majesty is the last surviving head of state who served in World War Two, joining the Auxiliary Territorial Service in 1945.
The Queen's broadcast is part of a series of televised commemorations on BBC One to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day.
At the end of her national address last month, the Queen evoked the spirit of Dame Vera Lynn, telling Brits: “We should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return: we will be with our friends again; we will be with our families again; we will meet again.”
After tonight’s address the country will be invited to open their doors and windows to take part in a national sing-along of Vera Lynn’s “We’ll Meet Again”, led by the 103-year-old on BBC One.
