Queen Elizabeth II

AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFETIME, TOLD IN THE WORDS OF THOSE WHO WERE THERELieutenant Commander Michael Parker, equerry-in-waiting to Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, speaking about the death of King George VI:'The Queen was really bowled over. Forlorn. Fully conscious of the fact that she was Queen, and that she must tend to affairs immediately, but at the same time carrying the load of thi...