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Rebecca Felgate and today we are talking about the Top 10 Queen Elizabeth Facts You Didn’t
Know from the time before she became Queen.
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Okay, coming in to number 10 - She Wanted to Marry a Farmer
Customarily, royal people wed other royals or members of high society.
The Queen did not grow up thinking she would ever be Queen, as her uncle was the one on
the throne.
When he abdicated was when she became second in line after her father.
Growing up living in a house, rather than a palace, the Queen loved animals, particularly
dogs and horses.
When she was young, she proudly declared to one of her nannies that she wanted to marry
a farmer so she could have lots of cows, horses and dogs.
In reality, her family would have lost it had she tried to marry an actual famer.
She met her actual husband when she was 13 and he 18.
More on that next….
9 - Her Parents Didn’t Like Philip Despite Philip coming from a Greek and Danish
Royal blood, his heritage contained a dirty word in 1940s Britain – German.
Not only did Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark have family with strong Nazi links – he
was also quite a brash man.
Having met Elizabeth when she was 13, the pair didn’t become involved until she was
17, but he was still 5 years her senior, which at the time her family considered too old
for her.
King Georg the 6th reportedly considered Philip Rough and Ill mannered.
Her mother, the Queen Regent, also regularly clashed with the self-assured Navy Man.
Her parents would rather her have married her childhood friend Lord Porchester.
Despite their resistance to Philip, he and Queen Elizabeth were the first ruling couple
in Britain to celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary.
8 - Her Middles Names Do any of you know the Queen’s full real
name?
Do you know her middle names?
I knew her last name was Windsor, but I didn’t know her full name until I was researching
for this video.
The Queen was christened as Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor by the archbishop of York at
Buckingham Palace in 1926.
7 - Her House Was Bombed – Elizabeth’s younger years were happily spent
living at 145 Piccadilly, near Hyde Park.
When she was ten she had to move to Buckingham Palace as her dad had ascended to the throne.
During the war years, The Royals stayed in Buckingham Palace.
A lot of bombs fell near the palace, but it was worst hit on the 13th September 1940.
Often the royals were woken at night and sent into the underground vaults of the castle.
Like Prime Minister Winston Churchill, they slept in ‘siren suits’, zip-up all-in-one
jumpsuits designed for warmth and practicality in bombing raids.
The Queen said the bombing of her home made her feel better connected with the suffering
of other people living in London.
6 – She Was In The Army During World War Two, Princess Elizabeth learned
to drive and joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service as a trainee ambulance driver.
Pictures of her servicing vehicles served as great propaganda for the war effort, and
Elizabeth later said this was the time she felt most at one with her peers.
5 - Her Sister and her Partied in Public in Disguise
I have so much love for Princess Margret, arguably my favourite of the Royals.
Margret was a regular partier, but Princess Elizabeth, the future Queen, was more reserved.
None the less, when the war was over, on VE day, the Princesses left the palace and joined
in the crowds on the streets of London.
They then submerged themselves in the swathes of people in Green Park shouting We Want the
King.
Elizabeth said” All of us were swept along by tides of happiness and relief”.
4 - She was a Keen Performer While the queen is known for her classic British
stiff upper lip, she has a wicked sense of humour and enjoyed putting on performances
with her sister.
There are quite a lot of photos of the Queen in costumes from various performances she
was in in her youth.
While her acting days were over when she became Queen, she has continued to be a good mimic.
She was recently heard impersonating an aeroplane flying over Buckingham Palace, and she reportedly
does great impressions of the now disgraced Rolf Harris, René from 'Allo 'Allo and Tony
Benn.
While I say her performance days are over, we did see the Queen act in a James Bond skit
for the 2012 London Olympics.
I loved it!
3 – She is Good with a Gun The Queen can shoot a gun, and well at that.
Royal families of the past have been known to enjoy hunting, and the queen is no exception.
This is one area of the Queen’s pastimes I personally don’t love.
None the less she was said to have shot her first stag age 12 – and one of the royal
Ghillie’s – a person who assists the hunt – said that it was a fine wee shot for a
bairn.
The queen was pictured in the 1990s shooting a huge rifle in Surrey.
2 - She got ger first house age 6 Many of us struggle to get on the property
ladder…some of some of us never will.
I am starting to think that at this point in my life, maybe I wont ever have a house….
It is so expensive, especially in the city!
Anyway, the Queen never had these woes.
As well as being born wealthy with pretty much a lifelong guarantee of a roof over her
head, Elizabeth was given a tiny cottage in the Gardens of the Royal Lodge in Windsor
in 1932.
The cottage is actually a very elaborate Wendy house – a two thirds size actual cottage
– the rooms are 5ft high and the building itself is 24 feet by 8 feet.
The people of Wales gifted her the house – a Welsh style cottage, named Y Bwthyn Bach,
which translates as “little cottage”.
Her sister played there too, and adults were only allowed in by invite only.
The Queen now owns four homes of her own, as well as a further four as the monarch.
Finally, I just wanted to end on a fun, cute and quirky fact about Queen Liz and a hobby
of hers that began before she was crowned!
The Queen collects pepper grinders Since she was young, the Queen has collected
Pepper Grinders!
One of her favourite was a gift from a friend who bought it from an Italian restaurant — it
is a plastic waiter and when you turn the head for pepper – it is said to scream in
a mock Italian accent: ‘You’re breaking my neck!’.
Back in 1976, the Queen visited Trinity Church in New York, as part of her trip to the United
States for the nation’s Bicentennial of American Independence celebration.
During that trip she collected 279 years of back pay from the church in the form of 279
Pepper corns.
Perfect for her hundreds of pepper grinders!
So there we have it, those were some pretty cute and interesting facts about the Queen
of the United Kingdom before she was Queen, and we can see that her wit, quirkiness and
humour have carried over into her reign.
A lot of people alive in the UK today have only known one monarch, and she will be remembered
with fondness not just as Queen Elizabeth the Second, but as the human that is Elizabeth
Alexandra Mary.
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