10+ World Leaders Photographed While Still Young And Unaware Of Their Future Role

We’ve covered the young presidents of USA already, but let’s broaden the scope now and take a rare glimpse at the leaders from around the world before they became the almighty God-like figures.

#1 Eighteen-year-old Princess Elizabeth of England during her time in the Auxiliary Territorial Service during WWII where she drove and repaired heavy vehicles, 1945

#2 Young 14th Dalai Lama

#3 Vladimir Putin as a young teenager, 1966

#4 Kim Jong-il with his father, Kim Il-sung, and his mother, Kim Jong-suk in 1945

#5 Young Nelson Mandela in 1961

#6 A young Shinzo Abe, Japan’s Prime Minister (bottom left) pictured with his family in 1956

#7 Young Adolf Hitler

#8 Karol Wojtyla, before he was Pope John Paul II

#9 Joseph Stalin as a young man, 1902

#10 John F. Kennedy at age 10, hair slicked back, 1927

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