Plus: Drone photos and John McCain | Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. SUBSCRIBE to TIME Magazine May 31, 2018 By Lily Rothman We all know what Queen Elizabeth II looks like, but it was still a surprise to see her in this 1945 photograph of a royal visit to a World War II Auxiliary Territorial Service training center. After all, she's not the visiting royal—she's the military auto mechanic. With the photo featured in a new museum exhibition, we took a look at the story behind the image and how the future Queen of England became, during the war, the first woman in the royal family to serve full-time in the military. Here's more of the history that made news this week: