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King George V.

Edward VIII was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire, and Emperor of India, from 20 January 1936 until his abdication on 11 December 1936. Edward was the eldest son of King George V and Queen Mary. 

King George VI on his coronation. He succeeded his brother who abdicated the throne. He had a speech impediment. He has an amazing wife, Elizabeth I.

This quality Canadian stamp shows Queen Elizabeth and her sister Margaret as they looked in 1939 when their father King George VI ruled England during WWII. Stamp collecting is a very educational hobby.

Princess Elizabeth and Sonia. My mother's first name is Margret and her middle name is Elizabeth.
Just like Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret.

Sonia as she looks today.

One of the highlights of the Royal Childhood exhibition which opens at Buckingham Palace today is the Queen's unfinished novel, written when she was just eight.

As we revealed exclusively in Weekend last week, it was called The Happy Farm and dedicated 'To Sonia, My dear little friend and lover of horses.'

And now we can reveal who Sonia was - the girl who became 'my dear little friend' to the most famous woman in the world.

It all began in 1930 when, aged just four, Princess Elizabeth of York bumped into Sonia Graham-Hodgson while out playing in Hamilton Gardens, behind the Yorks' London home, 145 Piccadilly, a stone's throw from Hyde Park.

The meeting was significant because, as Elizabeth's governess Marion Crawford recorded, 'Sonia was the one friend whom the Queen chose for herself.'

The princess was the eldest child of George V's second son, Albert, Duke of York, and his wife the former Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.

Her existing circle of friends consisted of cousins - near and distant from both sides of the family - and the selected offspring of aristocrats and courtiers.

While Sonia wasn't from the highest echelons of society, she was certainly from a comfortable background. Not only was she a neighbour of the Yorks but her father, Dr Harold Graham-Hodgson, was also one of the country's leading authorities on the diagnostic use of X-rays.

In November 1928, King George V, Elizabeth's beloved 'Grandpapa England', fell dangerously ill with a streptococcal infection of the chest.

Graham-Hodgson was called in to corroborate the diagnosis. He brought his cumbersome equipment to Buckingham Palace on a lorry, fed the cables through a window and took his X-ray plates in as the king lay in bed.

It was the first time  X-rays had been taken of a patient outside a main hospital, and after his recovery the grateful monarch made the specialist a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, which was later upgraded to a knighthood by Elizabeth's father.

Two years later little Elizabeth asked the doctor's daughter, 'Will you come and play with me?' Speaking in her 80s, Sonia recalled, 'We played French cricket. She was wearing a pink and white check dress and I was wearing a blue coat,' although she conceded that seven decades later 'we always argue over what we were wearing'.

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