Ah ... lovely photos of the Queen, Elizabeth through the stages of her life.
She was not born in the main line of succession to the throne. For the first ten years of her life, her position in the Royal Family was the same as Princess Beatrice’s today — a daughter of a younger son, destined to flutter on the royal fringes.
Brought up with an almost religious respect for the Crown, there seemed no prospect of her inheriting it. The future Elizabeth II was brought up in the deepest of Britain’s many 20th century recessions, and it was thanks to Bobo, her nanny, that she retained some contact with the frugal habits of working and middle-class families as they struggled to survive in the Thirties.
She learned how to recycle paper, almost as if she, too, had been born the daughter of an Inverness railwayman.
To this day, the Queen keeps her breakfast cereal in Tupperware boxes, and is eagle-eyed in switching off unnecessary lights in Buckingham Palace.
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