Royal biographer Jane Ridley reveals that the Queen Mother 'did not want to be Queen' and was 'terrified' at the thought of becoming monarch.
The Queen Mother lived most of her adult life in the spotlight yet one very basic detail of her story is shrouded in mystery: no one is really sure exactly where Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother was born. And no one did more to get people guessing than the ‘Queen Mum’ herself. When Queen Elizabeth was asked, she replied “London”, the same answer she had given when obtaining a passport in the 1920s.There was one slight problem: Elizabeth’s birth certificate said Hertfordshire.
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