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A Short Biography of Elizabeth II

Author Name:

Elizabeth II

Born As:

Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth of York. Elizabeth Alexandra Mary

Other Names:

Elizabeth II

Born:

21 Apr 1926

Died:





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Queen of England                          
                          
Mother Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
Father George VI, two children.
Husband, Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, couple are second cousins once removed. 
Phillip had sisters who had married German noblemen with Nazi links.
Phillip was of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, a branch of the House of Oldenburg.                          
                          
Father Prince Albert, Duke of York,  later King George VI.

In post-war Britain, it was not acceptable for any of the Duke of Edinburgh's German relations to be invited to the wedding, including Philip's three sisters.

King George V by royal proclamation on the 17 July 1917, when he changed the name of his family from the German Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, a branch of the House of Wettin to the English Windsor.

Gotha G.IV, a German heavy aircraft capable of crossing the English Channel began bombing London directly.