NOVEMBER 9. 1951

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Q The greatest blessing bestowed J upon Her Royal Highness the princess Elisabeth is that she grew up in a happy home. Her ,..m-iits were devoted to each oth- er and to their daughters and this warm affection is evident for all in see. whenever the Royal family a1)p3l!i' together in public. During her girlhood. Princess Elizabeth was never allowed u M-cept any of the gifts sent to her by private ind-Mduals. This is one or the rules of the Royal family. nm the gifts were always returned ul the senders with a kind note of thanks and a few words of explan- ation. when Elisabeth married. gum poured in from all parts of lhe world and the Kin! was so iourhed by the spontaneous dem- niistratlon of affection for his daughter that he relaxed the rule . and allowed her to keep the gifts. Elizabeth saw .them all, read all -vlhe thousands of letters and en- hured personally that replies went Eta all the senders. -

4; Childhood Days

at Most of Elizabeth's childhood ffiias spent at her parents London j:,;huine, 145 Piccadilly, a house Mviiieii. though comfortable was by ring means sumptuous. when they f2wei'e not busy with public duties. zine then Duke and Duchess of l"Yoi'k led quiet lives. Their fav- Jourlie way of spending an evening tn-as to sit in arrnchairs before the wt, reading. The Duke liked nczceiive stories, or books on hunt- mt; or shooting. He is a keen hunter and fisherman, and a good rliol, though not so good as his father, who was said to be one of ll." best shots in Britain. l"rom her birth. the Duke kept MS own private record of Eliza- biviirs life in photographs. He is ai- enthusiastic amateur photogra- pher and has a movie camera and pni'IjPCIOi'. When the family were pilwicrl together, he lovedtoshow iiiins of his daughters when they were young. and sometimes, for tun, he would put is him in re- verse and show them running harkwards. or diving out of water ' instead of into it. when Elizabeth was four. her sister Margaret was born. Margaret is a Scottish princess; she was borncat Olamia Castle in -lhe Scottish Highlands and her sisii-r Elizabeth was staying there iv the time on a visit to her ('dil(l))&l'EnL9, the Earl and Count- (ss ni Strathmorc.

Different Personslltiu

Towards heryoung sister Eliza- 'hrih has always had a feeling of responsibility. It soon became evi- ':'rni. that the personalities of the mo sisters were entirely different, and Elizabeth's sense of responsi-

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reign of her uncle. Edward VIII. ended in his abdication. Elizabeth and. Margaret saw their father leave their home on his way to his proclamation as King. The happy days at the house in Piccadilly were over. Now they were to have a new home-Buckingham Palace.

'me routine for the royal chil- dren did not change much when their father became King. or course they moved to Buckingham Palace and had a new school room. but lessons went on just the same. Not for many years had Buckingham Palace been the per- maneiit home of royal children. and now its corridors echoed with girlish laughter and there was an atmosphere of youth such as it had never known before.

At her father's coronation she carried herself with a dignity sur- prising in one so young. and at the same time managed to keep B motherly eye on her younger ais-

' - ter. Her chief dread was that

her mother chose a governess for her.

Scottish Governess

Naturally admiring the solid vir- toes and the sensible educational methods of her Scottish homeland. the Duchess of York chose a 22- year-old girl. Marion Crawford. a graduate of the University of Ed- inburgh, as her children's govern- ess. The Duchess wanted some one who was modern in outlook and young enough in years to have a natural enthusiasm. In Miss Craw- ford she made a wise choice: she remained 17 years with the fam- ily. To both princesses she became the beloved "Crawiie", and is one of their best friends.

Queen Mary took a keen inter- est in her granddaughter's educa- tion. Her comme its on the curric- ulum suggested that more time should be given to history than to arithmetic, that Elizabeth should be taught the detailed geography of the Dominions and India. and that not enough time was given to Bible reading. .

About this time. a fairly fre- quent visitor to the house in Pic- cadilly was the children's golden- liaired Uncle David. Then he was the debonair Prince of Wales. idol of the public. He played games with them and the two Princesses adored him. Elizabeth already had the childish name of

Llllibet, acduired in the nursery It was a pet name which persisted until recent years when the King thought it time that it was changed. It was changed, but in Princess Margaret's case it has only been shortened to the dimin- utive "Lil".

Grandfather's Favorite

Another visitor was the chil- dren's grandfather, the bearded King George V. He loved Eliza- beth. As a. former naval officer of the old school. he had an abrupt, quarter deck manner of speaking. but with the little golden-haired girl he was gentle. She was. per- haps. the only person who could speak to the bearded monarch in a familiar and patronizing manner without running the risk of a sharp reproof. So devoted was King George to his little grand- daughter that when he was con- volescing from his first serious illness the royal physicians pre. scribed her company as part of his cure, and she was sent with him to the seaside where he went to recuperate. In this way did Elizabeth first glimpse the sea.

Elizabetlfs childish name for King George was "Grandfather England."

The happy years at the house in Piccadilly sped swiftly by; they were varied by occasional holl-

days in Scotland and very infre-

liilllv sprang from a desire to guide and help her younger sister--a 'irl'.li'.' quite common to older sis-j Iris ' . l-jzizabeth. a slim. nervous and mi:-ing child was grave beyond her wars. Like her father.she was not- di,-inonstrative. but when she gave -her affection it was deep and yen- ciin-ing. she had her father's rather ii-i-ious mien but was not at all lacking in her mother's some of viiunioiirlirid although her smile

it was broad and unaffected and liv her whole face.

The King's dislike of the stuffy kind of traditionallsm extended to ins daughters education: not for tiism the old fashioned tyranny of the subject. with endless hours of wiidying dreary text books. when

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quent appearances in publie,scme- times with her grandmother. Queen, Mary, The story of one of these visits has been remembered. Queen Mary has little patience with affected airs. and as she was about to enter an exhibition with her tiny granddaughter, she over- heard Lillibet say in is pleased voice that people- were waiting "to see me." Elizabeth didn't see the exhibit. Instead. she was sent home by her grandmother in a taxi.

Lessons such as this were part oi her upbringing and Elizabeth soon realized the modesty and the invariable courtesy which royal persons must' practise, what ever the circumstances.

At Buckingham Palace

In I936. King George V died. Elizabeth was nearly 10 years old then and she was taken to the royal lying-in-state where her fa- tlier and his brothers kept vigil around the coffin of the dead King.

A few brief months and the

Margaret would go to sleep during the elaborate ceremonial and "dis- grace them all". For the occasion the King had a special little coro- net made for Elizabeth.

Their Maieatlea In Canada

The next great event in the King's reign was the Royal visit to Canada in 1939. Elizabeth was deeply disappointed that she could not accompany them. Without be- ing pushed forward by her parents she had managed to become the most-photographed little girl in the world, and Canadians shared her disappointment. But the King wisely kept her at home to con- tlnue her education. Every day, Elizabeth followed her parents' brilliant progress across Canada and laughed when she read that her father was eating hot dogs and liking them. The Queen. an anxious and devoted mother, tele- phoned daily from Canada to Buckingham Palace. On their re- turn there was a rapturous reunion with much hugging and kissing. The King's eyes were constantly on his elder daughter. shinino with pride and fatherly love for her.

A few weeks later the war came During it, Elizabeth was to grow to young womanhood, to join the services. to share the dangers of

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