The man who rejected Queen Elizabeth II as his wife

Queen Elizabeth II will suffer her first great disappointment in her younger years, a man she would fall in love with would reject her as a wife.

Still young at the time Queen Elizabeth IIHe knew the one who would be his first illusion and who he would even dream of marrying, however, he would have in mind another person and not the future monarch.

There were years when the young and the next sovereign of England had not yet seen her ascend to the throne so closely, even then she was able to enjoy some afternoons of discussions, confidences, dances and games with one of those who he was his best friend from his youth, Alathea Fitzalan Howard.

His life Elizabeth II She tried to stay close to the public eye, yet there are things that even in these times were not as possible as she and her family would have liked.

One of the great secrets about the royal comes from her youth, the monarch who grew up in Windsor Castle with her sister Margaret, shared a friendship with Alathea Fitzalan Howard, the great-granddaughter of the Duke of Norfolk, from an early age. During World War II, he spent much of his time on the estate Windsor Castle sharing games, dance classes and painting with the princesses.

Follow us on Google News and click on our star

As a teenager, Alathea began writing a diary recounting her experiences with those of Elizabeth Marie (Queen Elizabeth), this summary of anecdotes was one of the dreams that grew with her inside, to publish experiences at one time, the diary contained secrets that at that age he shared today with the queen and her now deceased sister.

This was made possible by Alathea’s niece and was released as The Windsor Diaries: A Childhood with the Princesses.

Throughout these pages is written a special moment when Isabel and Alathea shared the illusion for the same man.

The man who rejected Elizabeth II

The Grenadier Guard and then the Earl of Euston, Hugh FitzRoy, who later inherited the Duchy of Grafton

In one part of the volume, Alathea has already expressed her disappointment after the earl’s departure on February 7, 1942, she stated in one of the lines of her diary, “It is horrible that he is going abroad. you never see ”, where the young woman said that Elizabeth II also“ loved ”him.

However, in the same year, when “Lilibeth,” as Isabel was affectionately called, she met Felipe, the Duke of Edinburgh, whom she will also meet, Earl FitzRoy, and about whom he will come to express: good and with a great sense of humor, but not his kind. “

Already at that moment, Alathea showed a certain jealousy by approaching the count and his best friend, the queen.

They (the royal family) are so overly kind to him that we might wonder if they have an idea behind them. I’m sure he prefers Lilibet to me, he wrote in his diary.

In the same way, she added that the count was not so excited about her, however, she may have considered the possibility of benefiting from the condition that the British house felt, he suggested.

If the royal family feels that Princess Elizabeth should marry an Englishman, I think it can be settled between them. He is not in love with her, but I think he would be happy to benefit from her affection. “Sad: No, thank you.

Years later, thanks to the diary of the same author who narrated, the count himself declared that “his wishes were not to marry Elizabeth II,” despite the fact that he was the favorite for George V and the queen mother.

It was in 1946 when he married Anne Fortune FitzRoy, a wealthy commune and one of the monarch’s waiting ladies. And although Howard tried to come up with a plan to keep him close when he returned to Windsor, he would even ask Isabel for help, but that never happened.

You can also read Without Queen Elizabeth II, it could be the end of the monarchy

Already at that time, the monarch would have been totally enthusiastic about the Duke of Edinburgh he had known in those years, although, from what he said, FitzRoy came to provoke great enthusiasm, then became a memory of his youth. Today, amid various controversies and rumors surrounding Queen Elizabeth, 94, and Duke Felipe, 99, they have celebrated 73 years of marriage.