A year after her husband's death, she officially announced a piece of good news in the eyes of the world.
The current Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, today ushered in her 96th birthday, on the major social accounts, a birthday photo brushed the world.
Looking back at the queen for most of her life, she is one of the most famous women in the world and the longest-reigning monarch. But behind the glamorous beauty, in her legendary life, there are 3 secrets that are not known.
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Under the glamorous life
Hides multiple scandals of the royal family
Elizabeth II was born on April 21, 1926.
Her father, Albert, was the king's second son, and he was born a stutterer and did not have any chance of becoming king. And she is an indisputable princess, if there is no accident, she will be like other women in the family, grow up carefree, get married, have children, and enjoy the glory of a lifetime.
However, there was really an accident that shocked the world's jaws.
His father's brother, Elizabeth's uncle, King Edward VIII at the time, was an unmarried, handsome man when he became king, and it stands to reason that he should soon meet an equally good woman to be his wife.
However, this Edward VIII, who has no lack of heterosexual relations, is an unusual "love brain".
At one of the balls, Edward met his sister, Mrs. Simpson, a wife from the United States, and quickly fell in love with the young woman, who was several years older than himself.
Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson
Soon the scandal was exposed, and under the flesh of the world's gossip tabloids, Mrs. Simpson's black history was stripped to the sky — it turned out that she was born into a poor American grassroots family in her early years, and when she married Simpson, it was her second marriage.
When all of England began to laugh at the royal scandal, Edward VIII insisted on marrying Mrs. Simpson. In order to successfully marry his beloved woman, he even announced to the world in 1936 that he would voluntarily give up the throne.
With no heirs, Elizabeth II's father, Albert, stepped forward in times of crisis and succeeded him as King of England as George VI.
His father, George VI, gave a speech after his succession
Since then, the lives of the young Elizabeth II and her sister Margaret have been exposed before everyone's eyes.
Elizabeth II with her mother and sister
As the eldest daughter in the family, the six-year-old Elizabeth II began to receive a strict traditional royal education, learning history, language, music and other subjects every day, which was clearly arranged.
The chicken-sized baby did not disappoint the king, and soon she was fluent in French, German and Spanish, and later received a doctorate in music and law from four universities.
Compared with her sister Elizabeth, who is stable and introverted by nature and has high hopes, her sister Margaret lives a much more arrogant and willful life.
Margaret was four years younger than Elizabeth II, was not required to be excellent, was spoiled and watered, and was favored by the family. Even George VI himself admitted: "Elizabeth is my pride, Margaret is my source of happiness." ”
While Elizabeth II put on her boyhood and went to the front lines of World War II, her sister Margaret was having the most of her pleasure. As the first person to wear Dior's new dress into the British royal family, the beautiful and flamboyant Margaret quickly became a national fashion star, and Princess Anne, played by Rio Delle Hepburn in the movie "Roman Holiday", was based on her.
Then she pursued love arbitrarily, falling in love with Major Townsend, who was 16 years older than herself and divorced, which caused a national uproar, and then published a report to the official to announce the breakup.
After that, Margaret quickly fell in love with the royal photographer Earl Snowden, and posted a lavish wedding on TV, and within a few years, she quickly divorced, becoming the first member of the British royal family to divorce. In 2002, Margaret died of illness, and her life was romantic and warm.
Over the years, Elizabeth II has faced and quelled many royal scandals, such as the marriage scandal of her son Prince Charles and her daughter-in-law Princess Diana, and the withdrawal of her grandson Prince Harry.
In fact, she is only four years older than her sister, but she shoulders the honor and responsibility of a country.
Two daughters of the same family, the fate of the direction is so different.
Behind the glory and wealth, after all, there is a cruelty engraved.
73 years of fairytale marriage
Behind it are 30 derailments
Last April, the Queen's husband, Prince Philip, who always stood next to her and dressed in a straight suit, died suddenly on the eve of his 100th birthday.
At that time, after the news came out, many media outlets were titled with the following headlines:
73 years of fairy tale marriage, enviable love
A lifetime of romance, a lifetime of a couple
Yes, on the surface, this marriage, which spanned more than half a century, is indeed a decent British love story.
In 1939, Elizabeth Jr. accompanied her father, George VI, to visit the Navy School in Temause, where she met Philip for the first time.
That year, Elizabeth was still only a 13-year-old, uninvolved princess, and Philip, who was 5 years older than her, was already a handsome man with a height of 1 meter 9, with picturesque eyebrows and a straight posture.
Just when the girl bowed her head and was out of her mind, the teenager also noticed the innocent girl in front of her, although her face was still childish, but her body had already exuded an elegant tranquility that girls of the same age did not have.
One looked at each other, two pairs of eyes exchanged a surge of eyes, and a feeling spread out.
The prince and princess fell in love at first sight, which is the beginning of the story.
They fell in love, exchanged letters, and made vows.
Six years later, at the moment of Princess Elizabeth's adulthood, she could not wait to propose that she marry her own Prince Charming, Philip.
However, this marriage was opposed by all the people in the royal family.
Although Philip is also a prince in name, he is actually born as a fallen royal family in Greece as a descendant of the Greek and Danish royal families, and he is just a fugitive prince who was born at an inopportune time; on the contrary, Princess Elizabeth, as the eldest daughter of the family, grew up with good education and full care, and was highly expected by her father.
In the traditional standards of the British royal family, such two people can be said to be wrong.
In order to get the family members to recognize Philip, Elizabeth resisted the pressure and began to take Philip to brush her face in public;
Philip, on the other hand, took the initiative to promise to give up his religious beliefs, royal family name, and even his nationality in order to marry Elizabeth. Of course, behind this, Greece and Denmark at that time were extremely in decline, and even some radicals threatened to assassinate members of the royal family, not so much philip sacrificing for love as his initial best choice after weighing the pros and cons.
But in any case, the brave and generous princess, the gentle and handsome son-in-law, still let this love spread as a good story in Britain for a while, and gradually, the British royal family also began to accept Philip.
Finally, when Elizabeth was 21 years old, the two entered the palace of marriage hand in hand with the blessing of everyone.
After marriage, they soon had the crystallization of love.
Then came a twist – Elizabeth's father, King George VI, died of cancer.
That year, Elizabeth was only 26 years old and was a new mother immersed in family life, but as the eldest daughter, she had to be in danger of becoming the Queen of England.
This is also a huge challenge for her husband Philip, who was admired by his wife a second ago, but now he has to adjust his mentality and be willing to become the man behind the queen.
The sudden change in identity left Philip at a loss.
He tried to apply to rule with his wife, but was ruthlessly rejected by the royal family; he vented his dissatisfaction with her to express his anger at her for not having time to take care of the family. But none of this still calmed him down.
Eventually, he cheated. In the days that followed, more times I was photographed intimate with other women, and more than 30 mistresses were revealed...
There is always a fairy tale ending that says: The prince and the princess live happily together. However, in reality, the B side of fairy tale love is a woman's hidden tolerance for most of her life.
Even the queen is not immune, or because she is the queen, she needs this dignity even more.
70 years of ultra-long standby
How many assassinations have been avoided
As the longest-reigning monarch in British history, Elizabeth II has reigned for 70 years from 1952 to the present, so she is known as the "monarch of ultra-long standby".
However, this seemingly long-term 70 years of peace and stability, behind the hidden killing machine -
On Christmas morning last year, a man carrying a murder weapon was arrested just 500 metres from the Queen's residence.
The man claimed that he was "planning to assassinate the Queen."
And this is not the first time the Queen has experienced assassination.
In 1970, the Queen of England was invited to visit Australia, when a party in Australia was very dissatisfied with the British Royal Family, so they put stones on the tracks to try to derail the Queen's train to cause an accident.
Fortunately, the train was driving very slowly, and the stone was found and braked in time, otherwise the queen would probably die.
Not only that, but in 1981, when the Queen was visiting New Zealand, she was shot and stabbed by a 17-year-old, but fortunately no one was injured.
Also in 1981, the Queen almost suffered an accident, but fortunately the bomb was not enough to cause serious casualties, and the explosion site was less than 500 meters away from the Queen.
Even if she stays at home, it is not safe. In 1982, Michael Fagan, a notorious snitch in British history, climbed over a wall and broke into Buckingham Palace, the Queen's residence in London, and walked into her bedroom with a big wave.
He even stole red wine from Prince Charles's room.
It can be seen how poor the security of the royal palace is, and the Queen of England lives every day with fear.
The life of the royal family is really not as relaxed as imagined.
But in any case, after experiencing many life twists and turns such as World War II, infidelity, the death of her husband, the departure of relatives and friends, the diagnosis of new crown, and the rumored death, Elizabeth II is now one of the most influential women in the world.
She finally smiled and celebrated her 96th birthday.
As she famously said, "Don't bow your head, the crown will fall." ”
If you want to wear a crown, you will bear its weight.
No matter how bad the fate is, it can't drag down the real heroine.
This is Elizabeth II, and hopefully each of us!