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Queen Elizabeth's carefree life as a Princess - neighing, days at the zoo and curtsying to daddy

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Lilibet’s early childhood was not just carefree and secure, but surprisingly warm and loving, too.This was thanks to the efforts of her father, Bertie, who having endured a strict upbringing, battling a severe stammer throughout his life, encouraged demonstrations of affection in the family.

As a baby, her days were mostly spent at 145 Piccadilly, overlooking Green Park. It was a sumptuous abode boasting 25 bedrooms, a ballroom, a library and a nursery on the top floor, which was occupied by Elizabeth, her nurse Clara Knight – nicknamed Allah – and Scottish nursery maid Margaret MacDonald, known as Bobo for short.

Giving an insight into young Lilibet’s charming character, royal biographer Sarah Bradford, author of Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life In Our Times, said, “Princess Elizabeth inherited her father’s shyness but also his genuine kindness, niceness and sense of responsibility.” Although, as third in the line to the throne, no one expected her to ever become Queen, Winston Churchill, who was then serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer, made a perceptive observation about the two-year-old Lilibet, remarking, “She has an air of authority and reflectiveness astonishing in an infant.” Little did he know that he would later become the first Prime Minister to serve under her as Queen!

August 21, 1930 marked a joyous occasion in the family when her sister Margaret Rose was born at Glamis Castle in Scotland. “I’ve never known two sisters who were closer,” a courtier later said.

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