Politics and Society | Iceland Monitor | Wed 3 Aug 2016 | 17.00 GMT

PHOTOS: 11 images of the life of an Iceland president

Image 1 of 11 Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson and his first wife Guðrún Katrín Þorbergsdóttir greeting the crowds the day after he was voted President in 1996. Iceland Monitor/Sverrir

Image 2 of 11 Grímsson with his wife and daughters after his very first inauguration as President of Iceland. Iceland Monitor/Golli

Image 3 of 11 Ólafur and Guðrún entertaining the Queen and Prince Consort of Denmark in 1998. Iceland Monitor/Golli

Image 4 of 11 The President's first wife died of leukemia in 1998, at the age of 64. Iceland Monitor/ Golli

Image 5 of 11 Grímsson with his new partner, Israel-born British national Dorrit Moussaieff, and his daughter on holiday in India. Iceland Monitor/RAX

Image 6 of 11 Grímsson announced his engagement to Moussaieff in May 2000. Iceland Monitor/Kristinn Ingvarsson

Image 7 of 11 The presidential couple with US President George Bush. Iceland Monitor/ÞÖK

Image 8 of 11 The Presidential and First Lady of Iceland entertaining their US counterparts, Bill and Hillary Clinton in 2005. Iceland Monitor/ÞÖK

Image 9 of 11 Dorrit Mousaieff trying her hand at water-skiing. Iceland Monitor/Halldór Sveinbjörnsson

Image 10 of 11 The President and First Lady on the famous balcony after reelection in 2008. Iceland Monitor/Frikki

Image 11 of 11 Grímsson and Moussaieff at the ordination of Iceland's first woman bishop in 2014. Iceland Monitor/Eggert

Former President of Iceland Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson stood down from his post at midnight on Sunday after twenty years at the head of the Icelandic State.

With him goes Iceland’s charismatic and colourful First Lady Dorrit Mousaieff, who has supported her husband in that role for sixteen years.

Here is a selection of photographs charting Grímsson’s time at Bessastaðir, official residence of the President of Iceland.