"Who is he, this Hitler, who spoils everything?" Queen Elizabeth's military childhood

Princess Elizabeth (extreme on the left) with his parents, Winston Churchill and sister Margaret on the balcony of the Buckingham Palace on the end of World War II in Europe May 8, 1945

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“Children cannot leave without me, I can’t leave without a king, and the king will never leave,”-so the Konso-Konsort Elizabeth Bowz Lion, the wife of George VI in 1940 reacted to the offer of the close to send Princess Elizabeth and Margaret from the warring London to safe Canada.

Chapter from the book of Andrew Morton "Elizabeth and Margaret. Private life of the Windsor sisters ” (comes out in October at Audrey’s publishing house) talks about how the British royal family, who had not so long survived the scandalous renunciation of Edward VIII (thanks to which the future Queen Elizabeth II became the direct heiress of the throne), faced incomparably more serious trials: at the beginning of the Second World War, the landing of the Nazis in England seemed more than The real, and Buckingham Palace supposedly became the goal of the SS special forces.

However, the courage of the king and queen was quite worthy of the stamina of their subjects, and Princess Elizabeth, at the beginning of the war, will proudly meet the victory in the volunteer service in the ranks of the female auxiliary territorial corps. However, it will not be very soon.

Reading this book, it is useful to keep in mind that poisonous critics speak about the work of Andrew Morton as follows: “We must pay tribute to him: he is almost better than anyone in the world, he knows how to write 250-page columns of secular gossip!” The prolific English tabloid-journalist and writer, Morton specializes in the biographies of royal persons and celebrities-from Princess Diana and Meghan Markle to Tom Cruise and Monica Levinsky. Almost every scandal is connected with almost every book, the author reproaches that his texts are full of unverified facts (or even frank fiction), the characters of unauthorized biographies are furious-and all this, of course, is extremely beneficial affects sales.

The new book of Morton is concentrated mainly on the stormy personal life of Princess Margaret (this was really one of the main topics of the British secular chronicle in the 1960s and the 1980s), but we chose the chapter of the “sister at war” , which takes place at the very beginning of World War II. Elizabeth, which the Korol father called “My Pride”-13 years, Margaret (“My Joy”)-only 10.

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