This affectionate, intimate portrait of the Queen’s earlier years teems with vitality and warmth - and meditates on time passing ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
It is enough to give us a sense of the vast historical scope of her life - we see her grandfather King George V playing with her, and the young Princesses attending his Silver Jubilee parade in an open carriage . A section on her father George VI’s coronation features excerpts from the diary the then-11-year-old wrote about the day. “At the end, the service got rather boring, as it was all prayers,” one extract says. “Granny and I were looking to see how many more pages to the end.
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