Queen Elizabeth II was the ultimate matriarch ❤️
The first of her and Prince Philip’s four children, Charles, was born at Buckingham Palace in November 1948 when she was a 22-year-old princess and four years before she became Queen.
After her ascension to the throne in 1952, the Queen was focused on establishing her legacy as monarch. It was another decade before Prince Andrew came into the world at Buckingham Palace in February 1960, with the Queen revealing to her private secretary Martin Charteris that she and Philip had been trying for another baby “for some time”.
But in spite of her punishing schedule, she was known to keep her youngest offspring as close to her as possible, and they would often sleep in a mahogany crib in her office while she worked. A film released to tie in with the Queen’s 90th birthday in April 2016 provided evidence of this, with archive footage showing the family messing about at their beloved Scottish estate. Much of it was shot on cine film by the beaming Queen herself, and showed the children joyfully rolling down grass banks and zooming around in toy cars.
Anne always spoke warmly of her mother, and leapt to her defence after Charles suggested in his authorised 1994 biography that the Queen was “remote”’ while they were growing up. “I don’t believe any of us for a second thought that she didn’t care for us in exactly the same way as any other mother did,” she insisted.
Prince William said she had relished being a great-grandmother, too. “She likes to keep an eye on them – particularly Charlotte,” he revealed. “She’s fascinated by what Charlotte gets up to.”
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