The Queen, Her Majesty, Elizabeth II
Queen Elizabeth II was born on April 21, 1926. She was named Elizabeth Alexandria Mary Windsor during her christening. She is the eldest daughter of King George VI, who was still the Duke of York at the time, and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. Princess Elizabeth’s early years as a child were spent at 145, Piccadilly. It was a London house her parents took shortly after her birth, also at White Lodge in Richmond Park. She also spent a lot of time at her paternal grandparents home, the King George V and Queen Mary alongside her mother’s parents, the Earl and Countess Straithmore. In 1930, four years after she was born, Princess Elizabeth had a sister, with the birth of Princess Margaret Rose. This nuclear family of four were very close. But the quiet and serene family life was disrupted as a result of the death of her grandfather, King George V in 1936. Princess Elizabeth’s uncle, King Edward VIII, who was the eldest son of King George V ascended the throne. However, his reign w...