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The archbishop of Canterbury was rather taken aback when he once caught Elizabeth leading the king by the beard as if he were a horse. She had adored her grandfather and was one of the only people in the country who seemed to be unafraid of him. The possible affair was a mainstay in American gossip columns-the British press was voluntarily silent on the matter-but the situation graduated to a -national -crisis in Britain on Jan. The king and queen became outraged with Edward when he invited Simpson to the king’s Silver Jubilee Ball in 1935. Rumors swirled about their relationship, though Edward maintained to his family that Simpson was just a good friend. Kings were not allowed to marry divorced women. So the Duke and Duchess of York planned a life largely out of the spotlight for Elizabeth and their second daughter, Margaret.īut when Elizabeth was still small, her uncle -Edward began spending a great deal of time with American divorcée Wallis Simpson, to the consternation of the palace. Albert’s older brother Edward, Prince of Wales, had not yet married, but the family was confident he would settle down and have children soon. Born on April 21, 1926, to King George V’s second son, Prince Albert, the Duke of York, she was third in line to the throne. The following feature is excerpted from TIME’s Queen Elizabeth II: The World’s Longest-Reigning Monarch.
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