Elizabeth Windsor
Elizabeth Windsor was the British Crown Princess and was crowned Queen of the United Kingdom in 1952.
At the time Anne wrote her diary, Elizabeth was the British Crown Princess. Elizabeth had by then been corresponding for some time with her second cousin Philip, whom she married in 1947.[1] A change in the law on her eighteenth birthday meant that she might be able to rule, despite being a minor.[2] In 1952, she ascended the British throne as Elizabeth II. In 2022, she celebrated 70 years on the throne.[3]
Anne wass utterly fascinated by the different members of royal houses. She kept track of the birthdays of people belonging to different royal families and spent hours drawing their family trees. And In her room in the Secret Annex, Anne pasted postcards from Princess Elizabeth[4] and princess Margaret[5] on the wall just in front of her desk. In 1974, Elizabeth heard that Anne had had a picture of her on the wall and had lady-in-waiting Margaret Hay write to Otto Frank that she hoped that: "perhaps this photograph gave your daughter a moment's pleasure during that dreadful time."[6]
Footnotes
- ^ Wikipedia: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
- ^ Anne also wrote about this matter. Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 21 April 1944, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
- ^ Wikipedia: Elizabeth II.
- ^ Collectie online: Ansichtkaart met een foto van de Britse prinses Elizabeth op de plaatjeswand in kamer van Anne Frank.
- ^ Collectie online: Ansichtkaart met een foto van de Britse prinses Margaret op de plaatjeswand van Anne Frank.
- ^ Anne Frank Stichting, Anne Frank Collectie, Otto Frank Archief, reg. code OFA_383.“Lady-in-waiting” aan Otto Frank, 26 april 1974.