1952 PLATINUM JUBILEE special
Her Majesty travels down The Mall in the Diamond Jubilee State Coach after attending the State Opening of Parliament on May 27, 2015 in London.
An official portrait of the future queen taken three days before her 21st birthday on April 18, 1947 in London.
Princess Elizabeth was young, unworldly and head over heels in love when she made a speech that would become the framework of her life. It was a jubilant time for the heir apparent, who was aching to become engaged to Philip Mountbatten, the handsome naval officer she had known since she was 12 years old. Her parents were well aware of their eldest daughter's plans as she had told them the year before, but they had asked the lovebirds to take things slowly and postpone any engagement announcement.
Princess Elizabeth (now Queen Elizabeth II, left) and her younger sister Princess Margaret Rose (1930-2002) in a carriage on the grounds of the Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park, July 4, 1940.
It was 1947, the country had just come through a brutal war, and the King and Queen wanted Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret to join them on an important tour of South Africa to shore up the Commonwealth. They were also well aware that this was the most important decision their Lilibet could make - choosing not just a romantic partner, but the man who would be called on to put his own career dreams aside and support their daughter when the time came for her to step up to the biggest job imaginable, that of monarch.
Cecil Beaton's coronation portrait.
But if they ever had any doubts that Elizabeth was unaware of the demands of her destiny, that landmark speech broadcast around the world from Cape Town on her 21st birthday would have reassured them in spades.
This story is from the June 2022 edition of Australian Women’s Weekly NZ.
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