Margaret Rhodes, the Queen s cousin, recalled that following the 1936 Abdication - which resulted in her becoming Heiress Presumptive - Princess Elizabeth had prayed hard for a brother.
GYLES BRANDRETH: On September 16 last year, eight days after Queen Elizabeth died, I watched as her four children stood in silence at Westminster Hall, heads bowed.
The special friendship of Queen Elizabeth and Patrick Plunket, an Irish Lord. Queen Elizabeth II is notoriously private, but a fascination with her younger years has renewed with vigor thanks to the BBC series "The Crown."