A teeny weeny Queenie
Palace release baby snap as HM turns 91
THE Duke and Duchess of York gaze lovingly at daughter Elizabeth, who would go on to succeed her father as monarch.
Buckingham Palace yesterday released the picture of the month-old princess on her christening day in 1926, to mark her 91st birthday.
As mum Elizabeth holds her, her dad – later crowned King George VI – clasps her tiny hand.
The Queen spent yesterday at Newbury Racecourse and was expected to celebrate privately at Windsor Castle – a subdued affair compared with the festivities for her 90th – though royal gun salutes fired in London and Edinburgh.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson was among well-wishers, tweeting: “Hip hip hooray for The Queen.” She has an official birthday in June.
PRINCES William and Harry have never had a proper heart-to-heart about losing their mum so young, they revealed yesterday.
In a touching chat alongside William’s wife Kate, the brothers admitted they had not talked enough about their grief.
William was just 15 and Harry only 12 when Princess Diana was killed in a Paris car crash 20 years ago. But Harry, 32, said: “We’ve never really talked about it, losing a mum at such a young age.”
William, 34, added: “We’ve been brought closer… uniquely bonded because of what we’ve been through.
“But even Harry and I haven’t talked enough about our mother.”
The young royals were filmed around a picnic table in the grounds of Kensington Palace for their mental health charity Heads Together.
Harry, 32, said getting involved had helped him see how he had been avoiding talking about his bereavement. He said: “I always thought, ‘What’s the point of bringing up something that’s only going to make you sad?
“It ain’t gonna bring her back. And when you start thinking like that it can be really damaging.”
He said William had encouraged him to “sit down and think of those memories”. But Harry added: “For me, I was like, ‘I don’t want to think about it.’”
The six-and-a-half-minute film came days after Harry revealed he had counselling for his grief and William warned against the British stiff upper lip.
Harry said he wants to “empower” bereaved kids to be brave enough to talk about it, instead of “bottling it up”.
He and William said it was Kate’s idea for them all to join forces to talk about mental health issues.
Kate, 35, said: “Mental health seemed to run between all the different areas we were working in such as homelessness, military, addiction and bereavement.”
All three are “really excited” about the London Marathon this weekend, which has Heads Together as its charity of the year. Harry described it as a “mental health marathon”, adding: ”You can draw 150 charities everyone’s running for around in a circle, and in the middle will be mental health. It’s the one thing that binds everything together.”