The couple announced their engagement to the public in July 1947. However, prior to the announcement of their engagement the Prince had to renounce his Greek title and become a British citizen, taking on his mother’s anglicised name, Mountbatten. In 1946, Philip asked Elizabeth’s father for permission to marry her. In the years that followed, he and Princess Elizabeth exchanged many letters and during a visit to stay with the Royal Family over Christmas in 1943, it’s believed Elizabeth placed a photo of Philip, in his uniform, on her dressing table. ‘When peace comes, remember it will be for us, the children of today, to make the world of tomorrow a better and happier place,’ she said. In October 1940, a 14-year-old Princess Elizabeth broadcast a message to evacuees on the radio programme Children's Hour, urging them to have courage. Like many children living in London, Elizabeth and her sister were evacuated out of the city to the Royal Lodge at Windsor Castle. In 1938 the royal received riding training from Horace Smith in Berkshire and is believed to have continued riding until the later years of her life.Įlizabeth was 13 years old when WWII broke out on September 3, 1939. From a young age the Queen also showed a love of horses and began riding lessons, aged 5, in 1931 with Henry Owen, a groom at White Lodge, Richmond Park.

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