Breakfast at Audrey's: the Hepburn family photo album unlocked – in pictures
See an ordinary girl become a star, from her days picking flowers and doing dance recitals to screen tests for Sabrina and the cover of LIFE magazine. Hepburn’s sons have opened up their family vaults to show the world an icon in an intimate new light
• Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon will be at the National Portrait Gallery from 2 July-18 October
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Audrey Hepburn aged 9, by an unknown photographer, 1938
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Dance recital, by Manon van Suchtelen, 1942
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Hepburn after the liberation of Holland, by an unknown photographer, 1946
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In Richmond Park, photographed by Bert Hardy, 1950
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Costume test for Sabrina, by an unknown photographer, 1953
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On location in Africa for The Nun’s Story, by Leo Fuchs, 1958
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Audrey Hepburn, by Antony Beauchamp, 1955
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Audrey Hepburn in La Vigna, Italy, by Philippe Halsman for a Life magazine cover, 1954
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