This had advantages and disadvantages. Elizabeth emphasised her “Virgin Queen” image portraying herself as a monarch who put the stability and security of England before her personal happiness.

Queen Elizabeth II was just 25 when she acceded ... Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip’s romance, marriage and early family life together. Some archive couretesy of AP Archive / British ...

and for Queen Elizabeth, it’s all about consistency. The woman who came to the throne as a mother of two at age 25 in 1952 keeps her life just so in a routine that has remained amazingly ...

Early in her life she even had her father until he passed away suddenly in 1954, leaving Elizabeth as queen at the age of 18. Elizabeth Relied On Her Family In every family, there are family ...

Queen Elizabeth was the eldest child of King George VI, who became monarch in 1936 after his brother King Edward VIII abdicated the Throne. During the final years of King George VI's life ...

For the Queen, who faced early opposition to their union ... but he wouldn’t be boring,” Sally Bedell Smith, author of Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch, told PEOPLE in 2015.