A special child

“She genuinely had an incredibly happy childhood. Her parents worked really hard to make it so but also the Queen, as a little girl, was completely enchanting. She was a very special child. We know that in the 1930s if someone was writing about royalty it would all be highly favourable, but the way journalists responded to little Princess Elizabeth went beyond that. People adored her. She wrote her mother a letter from her honeymoon in which she expressed her gratitude for being able to have a wonderful childhood.”