In 2012, Kate Winslet was invested by the Queen as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. During their brief chat, the actress told the monarch that she “loves being a mum”, to which the Queen is said to have replied, somewhat wistfully, “Yes, that’s the only job which matters.”
The Queen effectively had two families, separated by a decade. She also had two attitudes to bringing up her children. Charles and Anne, born in 1948 and 1950 respectively, saw the more formal side of her. By the time Andrew and Edward came along in 1960 and 1964, she had mellowed, just as society’s attitudes had relaxed.
Prince Charles Philip Arthur George was born at Buckingham Palace
