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...with her disreputable friend Sarah Churchill, had labeled an age with her name and marked some imperial milestones. After Anne, England's next Queen was a demure little German Princess of 18, who stepped out of a life circumscribed by a domineering and jealous mother, to mount the throne and demand for the first time the right to a private bedroom. A half-century later, wide-eyed Victoria had become an aged Empress with drooping jowls, and her Kingdom a true Empire heavy with gold, black with industrial soot, and red with the blood of conquest...
...Buckingham Palace, just as she might have in some U.S. Middletown, the heiress to the throne had her own troop of Girl Guides, the 7th Westminster Company, organized by children of Palace staffers. The Queen gave the girls a company flag, and in time Elizabeth worked her way up to be patrol leader-"a distinction," her official biographers carefully point out, "achieved only through merit." At Windsor Elizabeth was the Bosun of the Kingfisher Patrol of the Sea Rangers (seagoing Guides), and woe betide any Ranger who came aboard the flagship (a whaleboat presented by King George) like a landlubber...
...Pinkle-Ponkle. As with any potential heir to the throne, Elizabeth's formal education was the constitutional concern not only of the reigning sovereign but of the Cabinet. It was soon decided that no school would match Princess Elizabeth's requirements. So every day from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., with an hour off for lunch, she studied history, grammar, literature and arithmetic with her Scottish governess "Crawfie" (Miss Marion Crawford...
...marked man. Since she seldom sits one out (she is a gifted and tireless dancer), the field was enormous. But during the last year it has narrowed to a single contestant: a well-scrubbed, curly-haired lieutenant of the Royal Navy, who was born sixth in line to the throne of Greece...
Yellow Glare. At 18 the heiress to the throne came of age, imperially, ready to assume the Crown if her father died. As a private person she would not come of age for three years. The question of her official debut could be put off no longer, and in 1943 the wartime Princess was officially introduced to her people in the vivid, yellow glare of the blast furnaces in a Welsh tin-plate mill. Miners, factory girls, housewives and dock hands turned out by the thousands to cheer her on a two-day tour. Denied the privilege of hailing...