![]() 'We’ve been very busy and we could not find time for out-teas, but now we’ll be able to find some. We’re quite settled in now and we would like you to come to tea one day next week. The letter was dated Monday, March 1, 1937: ‘Thank you very much for keeping Ben whilst we moved into Buckingham Palace. I didn’t hear from her for a week or two, but then she wrote to me.’ ‘She left her favourite horse, Ben, with me, because she didn’t want him to be packed up by the removal people. ‘Lilibet had so many toy horses – dozens of them – she kept them all neatly lined up on the landing outside her bedroom – she groomed them so beautifully – and they had to be packed up. ‘Of course, when became King and Queen, the family had to move to Buckingham Palace,’ the Queen’s childhood friend Sonia Berry explained to me. We spent a lot of time as circus horses.’Īccording to her governess, Marion Crawford (known as Crawfie), ‘Lilibet’s first love of all was undoubtedly Owen the groom, who taught her to ride.’ ![]() ‘What did we play? We endlessly played at horses,’ she told me. Most significantly, perhaps, King George V shared with Lilibet his love of dogs and horses ![]()
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