Churchill, Eden, Macmillan, Douglas-Home, Wilson, Heath, Callaghan, Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron - the Queen is now dealing with the twelfth prime minister in her 64-year reign.
Sir Winston Churchill is said to have taken a slightly patronising fatherly attitude to the young Princess after she ascended the throne in 1952.
Margaret Thatcher was just six months older, both women having forged their different outlook as teenagers during World War II.
Since Sir John Major, the Queen has been older than her first ministers. He brought modern day worldliness helping the monarchy through its "annus horribilis".
As the nation celebrates Elizabeth II's 90th birthday, she can look back on having first seen David Cameron as a small boy when she visited relatives at his junior boarding school.
This may explain his rather overconfident demeanour with her which led to him being caught on camera in her presence describing Afghanistan and Nigeria as "fantastically corrupt".
The Queen commands the Prime Minister to attend an audience each week where she discusses affairs of state. These meetings are entirely private, and no PM has ever dared break the confidence of their discussions.
"Prime Ministers have a constitutional responsibility to tell the Queen what is happening," Sir John Major told Sky News, "and the Queen has a constitutional right to know that and to probe and to ask questions."
On a daily basis, she is also kept up to date with official red boxes packed with government documents and a personal briefing letter written for each day by The Vice Chamberlain to Her Majesty's Household, a serving MP in the government whips' office.
But there are limits to the monarch's involvement in the affairs of government.
Since Oliver Cromwell oversaw the execution of Charles I, they have been kept at arms' length by parliamentarians. Informed respectfully rather than consulted.
So what do Prime Ministers and the Queen talk about at their audiences usually held in Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle or Balmoral?
It's a subject of fascination which inspired the fictional West End and Broadway hit play The Audience, with Helen Mirren and Kristin Scott Thomas taking the regal role.
All PMs have said Her Majesty's advice was invaluable but she clearly plays her cards close to her chest - even in these one on one conversations.
spite of a decade of weekly meetings, Tony Blair told me he didn't know what her personal views were on the issues of the day.
"She presumably does have politics," he speculated. "Everybody does whether they think they do or they don't, but, there is no way that the Queen would mix herself up, either way in a subject like that, I mean it's not in her DNA."
That perhaps is the secret of her success.
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