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1926

PRINCESS Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor is born on 21 April at her maternal grandparents’ home in Mayfair. She was the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York, who would become King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.

1930

THE Queen’s grandfather, King George V, gives her a Shetland pony, called Peggy – and her passion for horses begins.

1933

AGED seven, Princess Elizabeth begins her lifelong love of Corgis when her father brings home

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