A Brief History Of The Private Life Of Elizabeth II - Plot & Excerpts
Elizabeth knew, and hated him. She was disappointed when war did not break out in 1938 over Czechoslovakia and was rebuked by her nurserymaid, Miss MacDonald: ‘You don’t know what war is like!’ When it did come the following year, she found out soon enough. Just over a month later, some 800 men were killed when HMS Royal Oak was sunk by a U-boat. Her anguish, and outrage, were genuine: ‘It can’t be! All those nice sailors!’ The Second World War was to cost the young Princess very heavily. It destroyed the house in which she was born, the chapel in which she was christened, the home she had loved for the first decade of her life. Her parents were almost killed; her uncle was. She herself heard the sound of falling bombs and anti-aircraft fire, and had to go to shelter when enemy planes were overhead. She saw a doodlebug crash and explode in Windsor Great Park (more than 300 bombs fell there during the conflict). She would perhaps see – and would at least hear – the waves of German bombers passing over the Castle on their way to annihilate Coventry.
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