![]() That Princess Elizabeth would accede to the throne so young. That year ( Gazette issue 34349) to marry Wallis Simpson, an American divorcée, changed the life not only of hisīrother Albert (‘Bertie’), but also of his ten-year-old niece. But when he becameĮdward VIII in January 1936, aged 41, he was still a bachelor. To his family as David), was expected to marry and produce an heir. Her father’s elder brother Edward, Prince of Wales (known Of married life and had two young children.Īt her birth, Princess Elizabeth was third in line to the throne, yet the prospect She took the throne but, unlike the Virgin Queen, she was enjoying her fifth year ![]() She was the same age as Elizabeth I had been when The princess was in Kenya when the news reached her, at the beginning of a Commonwealth The reign of Elizabeth II had begun two days earlier when George VI died in his sleepĪt Sandringham, aged 56 ( Gazette issue 39458). The declaration was followed by the public proclamations of her accession all overīritain and in many parts of the Commonwealth. Prosperity of my peoples spread as they are all the world over’ ( Gazette issue 39467). ![]() She promised ‘to uphold constitutional government and to advance the happiness and Were among those present who heard her address them clearly and firmly: ‘By the suddenĭeath of my dear father, I am called to assume the duties and responsibility of sovereignty.’ The Archbishop of Canterbury and her prime minister, Winston Churchill, On 8 February 1952, at St James’s Palace, London, the 25-year-old woman who wouldīecome the Britain’s longest-reigning monarch made her accession declaration to her Author of Princess: The Early Life of Queen Elizabeth II, Jane Dismore looks at theįormative years of the princess who would become the Britain’s longest-reigning monarch.
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