Word: grandpapa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many an echo of these lavish reports came back to Lilibet, and her sense of importance was in no way diminished by a kindly, doting old Sovereign whom she called "Grandpapa England." "They're cheering for you, you know," George V explained to her one day as he held her in his arms on the Palace balcony. Lilibet smiled radiantly. Later she was caught testing her royal prerogative by making a playmate bow low in homage...
...very cozy as long as her father remained Duke of York. Then in 1936 came the death of Grandpapa England and the eleven hectic months that ended in Edward VIII's abdication. Feckless little Margaret Rose was disgusted. "Now we'll have to move to the Palace," she said. "And I've only just learned to spell York and now I'm not to use it any more." But Elizabeth's eyes were round and solemn as she spied a letter on the hall table addressed to "Her Majesty the Queen." "That's Mummie...
Winston Churchill II, almost-five-year-old grandson of the former Prime Minister, had his own idea of the meaning of the British elections. When his nurse asked him if he had heard about them, he replied: "Yes, I have a new grandpapa...