HMs Childhood Pictures

For Elizabeth II's birthday, a souvenir photo album is
being made with pictures from her childhood.

Fragile Warrior...

Wow, she sure takes after her grandmother in the looks department.

flaviaR...

It was said when she was younger, but I think she was even
prettier (okay, still is). Her smile is positively radiant.

Brian Pears...

Here are a couple of royal pics you won't have seen before. One
of the Queen and DofE in Newcastle and the other of the Queen
Mum on a visit to Gibside near my home at Rowlands Gill (Gibside
was a childhood holiday haunt of hers). Unfortunately the pics
are undated, but were probably taken circa 1970 - they were taken
by the father of a friend, music teacher Tom Waters (1907-1990).

flaviaR...

Oddly enuf, the one that intrigues me the most is the one of
her letter at 7. This is because of a discussion I had with an
author who swore that Anne Boleyn had to be far older than
others suspected - one of her proofs was the letter wrotten
from France when she was supposed to have been around
7. The author held that Anne's writing was far too formed for
a 7 year old's. *I* said that, in those days, children who were
educated were started far more early than today's children,
and kept at it harder (no TV to distract them!). And while HM's
handwriting didn't quite match the quality of Anne's, it is, for
example, far better than even older children of today. In fact,
in HM's day, children were routinely taught handwriting, &
they aren't now.

GR...

In the early Thirties, Copperplate was the desired standard at my village
school in the Northeast of England; one side of the three sliding, slotting
and reversable blackboards had horizontal and oblique lines painted on it to
act as a guide during handwriting practice. Much later, I switched over to
an italic style. My wife, however (three years my junior, but still in the
Thirties), was actually taught Italic handwriting from the very outset at
her London school.