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Saturday, May 19, 2012

The Queen as a Tyke

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Throughout the Queen’s long reign there has only ever been one intimate account of her early life – written by her governess Marion Crawford in 1950 and now reissued to mark the Diamond Jubilee.
 In the first part of our serialisation, Crawfie, as the Queen called her, recalls her first meeting with her five-year-old charge, when her father — the future George VI — was still Duke of York...

Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, and her sister Princess Margaret
Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, and her sister Princess Margaret. 'Margaret always wants what I want,' was a common complaint


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2146542/Queen-Elizabeth-The-day-Queen-threw-tantrum-tipped-pot-ink-head.html#ixzz1vIhMfjzI

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