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Her Majesty to May 1940.14-year-old Elizabeth gave a speech on the BBC’s

Children’s Hour on 13 October 1940 and supported the soldiers.
To get back to London, they stayed at the Windsor Palace for 5
the Queen years. On February 1945, she got admitted to “Female Auxiliary
Service”. She tend to the profession of driver and mechanic and
also drove military trucks. She was subsequently appointed as an
honorary junior commander for a period of 5 months. Elizabeth
was the only head of state to join military service in World War II.
When Elizabeth turned 18, an offer was made to give her the title
of Princess Of Wales. The proposal belonged to Herbert Morrison,
then Minister of the Interior. But her father didn’t accept that
because that title would be given to the male prince’s wife who
is an heir.

After the news of the end of the war, Elizabeth took to the streets
of London with Margaret to join the enthusiastic crowd. She later
said, “We asked our family for permission to look at people without
being known from the outside. At the same time, we were afraid
that they might recognize us. I remember, we were driving down
Whitehall Street holding the hands of people we didn’t know. We
were overwhelmed by the feeling of joy.”

Early in 1947, Elizabeth went with the King and the Queen to
South Africa. After their return,
they announced her betrothal to her third cousin Philip
Mountbatten of the Royal Navy, formerly Prince Philip of Greece
Her full name is Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor. She was born and Denmark. The marriage took place in Westminster Abbey
on April 21,1926, in London. She is the elder daughter of the Duke on November 20,1947. Although many in the royal circle viewed
and Duchess of York, who would become King 6h George and Philip as unscientific match due to his lack of money and foreign
Queen Elizabeth later on. She had one little sister, Margaret Rose German blood, Elizabeth was determined and very much in love.
Windsor who was born in 1930.Elizabeth was known as “Lilibet” Their first son Charles was born in 1948, a daughter, Anne arrived
within the family. The sisters were educated by their mother in 1950.
during their childhood. Their mother entrusted them to Marion
Crawford as their nanny. Elizabeth took lessons on constitutional While on a journey with her husband in Sagana, Kenya, on
history from Henry Marten, who is the presidential chancellor February 6 1952, she received the news that her father had passed
of Eton College. Later on, she becomes a student of that private away and she was succeeding him. She gave her first parliament
school. This school was created especially for her to be in contact speech on November 4 1952.She was officially crowned in 1953
with children of her age. She also began to learn French to be and the ceremony was broadcast on the television for the first
able to talk to her nanny. After years, Marion Crawford wrote a time in history. At the same time, she had elected president of
book called “Little Princesses”. In the book, she talked about Commonwealth of Nations, replacing his father.
Elizabeth’s attachment to corgis and horses. She also talked about The Commonwealth of Nations is an organization which gathers
her behaviours and responsibilities to her job. But the royal family the United Kingdom and other 14 countries including Canada,
was not pleased with the publication of this book .In 1936,her New Zealand, Australia. During her 63-year rule, she became the
father became the king after the abdication of his elder brother. head of state of 25 countries included in the Commonwealth of
With this situation, Elizabeth became heir to the kingdom. Nations. She also became the high governor of the Church of
England who is the main church of the Anglicans.
When the second world war started, Elizabeth and Margaret
stayed in Scotland from September to December 1939 and then In the first decade of her reign, she settled into her role as a queen,
they went to Norfolk. They lived at the royal lodge from February developing a close bond with the time’s prime minister, Winston

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