Sunday, April 28, 2013

On becoming a royal


King George VI; Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
January 18, 1923

Three months before the wedding.  I wonder what all is going through their minds.  I know it took three proposals before she would agree to become his wife.  It wasn't him she objected to, it was being "afraid never, never again to be free to think, speak and act as I feel I really ought to."  Bertie, however, was insistent that he would marry no one else.

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