The daughter of a second son, she got the best start of all—a happy childhood. Then, from her father, struggling with great zeal and small strength, and from her mother, affectionate and serene, she learned the often tiresome tasks of queenship
A panel of veterans and historians react to Berton’s critical view
On her birthday in 1947, nearly five years before she would become Queen, a 21-year-old Princess Elizabeth delivered one of her most memorable, assured and prescient speeches.
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A look back at Pierre Berton’s 1953 report from behind the scenes of the royal household and the ‘strange job of being Queen’