BY HER SIDE
‘In 1936, when Elizabeth was 10, everything changed’
The Queen has reigned for so long and is such a natural in the job that it’s odd to think that she was never meant to do it.
Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was born in 1926. Her father, Prince Albert, was the second son of King George V. It was Albert’s older brother Edward, Prince of Wales, who would be the next monarch.
But in 1936, when Elizabeth was 10, everything changed with the abdication of King Edward VIII.
