Elizabeth: The Teenage Princess Who Never Expected to Be Queen The Secret Early Life of Elizabeth II — From Naval Wife to Reluctant Heir, the Making of a Monarch - Couverture souple

Dusk, Clara

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ISBN 13 : 9798181412637

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

What happens when a girl who fixed Army truck engines and planned to follow her naval husband around the world is told she must become the Crown?

On April 21, 1926, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor arrived third in line to the throne — a spare, a decorative afterthought expected to marry a minor European prince and live in pleasant obscurity. She was never meant to wear the crown. Then came December 10, 1936, and everything changed in a single afternoon.
This is the hidden story of the girl who became Queen Elizabeth II — not through ambition, but through accident, duty, and the slow accumulation of losses that turned a person into an institution.
What you'll find inside:
• The Abdication That Stole Her Childhood — How Edward VIII's choice on December 10, 1936, ended Elizabeth's private life forever, turning a ten-year-old pony enthusiast into the future of the dynasty.
• Grease, Not Tiaras — The six months Elizabeth spent in the Auxiliary Territorial Service in 1945, sleeping in barracks, changing tires in the mud, and earning respect from girls who judged her by competence, not rank.
• The Forbidden Romance — How a penniless, stateless Greek prince named Philip Mountbatten won the heart of the heir presumptive, despite the court's insistence he was "rough, uneducated, and foreign."
• The Stolen Years in Malta — The two golden years Elizabeth lived as a naval officer's wife, shopping without security, dancing at the naval club, and signing letters "Elizabeth Mountbatten" — the last time she would ever be simply a wife.
• The Knock at Treetops — The humid February night in 1952 when Elizabeth went to bed as a princess and woke as Queen, twenty-five years old, with a crown she never asked for dropped into her lap.
Read the hidden story of the making of a monarch — the secret early life that the official histories, with their coronations and Commonwealth tours, never fully tell.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798181412637
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 313
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