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Queen Elizabeth Research Paper

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The books with Elizabeth learning how to talk. She had difficulty pronouncing all the syllables of her name so she would say ‘Lilibet.’ ‘Lilibet,’ became the name her family would call her throughout her childhood. Her husband Prince Philip, to this day - though when he’s feeling particularly affectionate, he calls her ‘Cabbage.’ ‘Lilibet’ loved her tricycle, and would call her grandfather ‘Grampa England.’ Elizabeth the second, was born not to be a queen, but knowing she would most likely not become the queen, she was raised up with almost religious respect for the crown. Well, how could she become queen if she was not born to be a queen. Her father George was not the King and he didn’t think he would ever become the King. Why? Prince …show more content…

Everything she wore all mothers would want to buy something like what she was wearing. For Elizabeth’s point of view, on the suitors and marriage candidates was totally academic. Finally, Elizabeths made her choice - someone in her family, her third cousin just five years older than her. The dashing and fair-haired Royal Navy Lieutenant, Prince Philip of Greece. Princess Elizabeth had been in love from their first meeting. We don’t know the exact first meeting of the two were, but Crawfie set the fateful moment in July 1939 at Dartmouth Naval College. When the thirteen year old Princess had spent an afternoon playing croquet with the eighteen year old midshipman in training. The cousins had met several times before that at such family gatherings as the 1934 marriage of Elizabeth’s uncle the Duke of Kent to Philip’s cousin Princess Marina. Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten get married on the twentieth of November in 1947. The arrival of healthy son and heir within less than a year completed the family and the national joy. Prince Charles was born on 14th November 1948, and Princess Anne was born less than two years

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