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afraid to speak about her problems in public which was unusual for the royal
family, and the public liked her because she opened her heart to them and
helped them.
On 2 June 1953, nearly forty-four years before Princess Diana’s funeral,
the streets of London were also full. But people were there for a much happier
occasion. On that day the young Princess Elizabeth was crowned as Queen
Elizabeth II of Great Britain. As a little girl, Elizabeth didn’t know that one day
she would be queen. Her grandfather was King George V. But George and his
wife Mary had six children. Their oldest son, the handsome and popular
Edward, was the next in line to be king. Elizabeth’s father, Albert, was only the
second child, born in 1895.
When they were boys, Edward and Albert were often unhappy. The
children only saw their parents for an hour every day. Their nurse was a hard
woman and often hurt Edward. George V was a good king, but not a very kind
father. ‘I was frightened of my father, and my children are going to be
frightened of me!’ he said.
Albert, or ‘Bertie’, was shy, and the family made this worse for him. He
wrote naturally with his left hand, but he was told to use his right hand. He also
had a speech problem. He couldn’t always say the words that he wanted to say.
His father only laughed at his son. Later, he had help from a special teacher, but
all his life it was hard for Bertie to make speeches.
The name of the royal family was now ‘Windsor’. They changed their
name in 1917, during the First World War with Germany. Their family names at
that time were German, and it was better to have an English one. So George
chose the name ‘Windsor’. Windsor Castle is one of the old places where the
royal family often stay. Princess Elizabeth and her sister Margaret grew up in a
warm, loving home. ‘Us four,’ her father called his little family. Before he was
king, they lived in a large house on Piccadilly. It wasn’t a palace, but it was
big
enough. It had 25 bedrooms, a library, and a room for dances and parties! Sadly,
it is not there now - a bomb destroyed it in the war.
The girls had their own private teacher. Miss Crawford, a Scottish
woman. ‘Crawfie’ gave them their lessons at home every morning, and in the
afternoons Margaret and Elizabeth also studied dancing, art and music. The
girls had a happy life, but they didn’t know much about the lives of ordinary
people. They did have friends, but these were usually from other rich and
important families. Once they went on the underground train in London, and
this was a great adventure!
When she was small, Elizabeth tried to say her own name. It came out
as ‘Lilibet’. Since that time her family have often called her Lilibet. Elizabeth
was always a serious little girl. She liked to be tidy. She tried to put her clothes
and her shoes very tidily by her bed each night; then she sometimes got out of
bed in the night and made them even tidier. Margaret was wilder and funnier
than her sister. Both girls loved horses from an early age, and they played with
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