MANY YEARS FROM now, historians will surely debate in what ways the reign of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was significant. What will remain without doubt is that, in the length of her time spent on the British Throne, the social changes that she witnessed and ways that the monarchy itself evolved while she presided over it, her position demanded certain personal qualities that she was uniquely able to offer.
Why so? Because the fates conspired to thrust an unassuming young woman into an extraordinary position, with responsibilities and challenges she could not have dreamed of in her earliest years.
Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, the elder daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York, was
