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Even as a child, "Lillibet," as royal baby talk dubbed her, proves a hard act for Lacey to humanize. It is as if she were born with her crown on. Her grandfather George V had written to her father George VI: "Now that you are five years old I hope you will always try and be obedient and do at once what you are told, as you will find it will come much easier to you the sooner you begin." The advice helped give her father a lifelong case of the stammers. Elizabeth appears to have thrived on it, suffering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mother of Four | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

Accompanying the main feature is Royal Destiny, a reverent documentary of Queen Elizabeth II. It follows the life of the Queen from her "Lillibet" stage to the responsibilities of Queenship. For an American it is always interesting and sometimes inspiring...

Author: By E. H. Harvey, | Title: The Importance of Being Earnest | 4/11/1953 | See Source »

Princess Elizabeth, Britain's 19-year-old heiress presumptive, who recently gave an inkling of what goes on in her pretty young head by choosing Bing Crosby as her favorite crooner, waltzed with a chef in the Royal Servants' Hall of Buckingham Palace. In the same room Lillibet's royal father was taking a whirl with the butler's wife, and her mother with a footman. The occasion: the household staff's annual Christmas party, at which the members of the royal family customarily democratize, the staff admirably Crichton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: First Families | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

...Lillibet and David. Right now the Queen is watching the ladylike gamboling of her favorite granddaughter Princess Elizabeth (TIME, Nov. 26), with a mildly critical eye. "Lillibet" can have some fun before she becomes Queen, but she must take care not to become another David

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Mary Regina | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

...Duke of Windsor). In Lillibet's case Grandma has modernized her idea of fun to include such excursions as that of last week, when the Princess and a party of friends dined & wined at the Bagatelle, one of Mayfair's toniest nightspots, till past midnight, listened to a red-haired Russian sing Englishmen Never Make Love by Day, danced rumbas and tangos till the band went home. Elizabeth's escort was an old family friend, married, bespectacled Charles Villiers (pronounced Villers), a former colonel in the Grenadier Guards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Mary Regina | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

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