The man who rejected Queen Elizabeth II as his wife

Queen Elizabeth II would bring her first great disappointment during her youthful years, a man with whom she would feel in love would reject her as a wife.

Still young at that time the Queen Elizabeth IIHe knew what his first dream would be and with whom he would even dream of marrying, but he would have another person in mind and not the future monarch.

Those were years when the young and close sovereign of England still did not see so close her ascension to the throne, still in these moments she could enjoy some afternoons of conversations, confidences, dances and games with one of which was her best youth friend, Alathea Fitzalan Howard.

The life of Isabel II she has struggled to stay mostly out of the public eye, however, there are things that simply in those times have not been entirely possible as she and her family would have wanted.

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

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During her adolescence, Alathea began writing a diary recounting her experiences alongside those of Elizabeth House (Queen Elizabeth), this summary of anecdotes, was one of the dreams that grew next to her in her interior, publish their experiences at some point, the newspaper contained secrets that at that age he shared with today’s queen and her already d! German pound.

This came true thanks to a niece of Alathea and was released under the name The Windsor Diaries: A Childhood with the Princesses.

Throughout these pages a particular moment is written when Isabel and Alathea also shared the enthusiasm for the same man.

The man who rejected Elizabeth II

The grenadier guard and then Earl of Euston, Hugh FitzRoy, Who some time later inherited the duchy of Grafton

In one part of the volume, Alathea was already expressing her disappointment after the earl’s departure, on February 7, 1942, he stated in one of the lines of his diary. go abroad, you may never see him again, “where the young woman said that Elizabeth II” loved “him too.

However, it was that same year that “Lilibeth,” as Elizabeth was affectionately called, met Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, whom Count FitzRoy would also know, and of whom he would go on to express: “He is kind. and with a great sense of humor, but it’s not his type. “

Already at that time, Alathea pointed out a certain jealousy for the proximity of the count and his best friend, the queen.

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

He similarly added that the Earl was not so enthusiastic about her, but, perhaps considering the possibility of benefiting from the affection the British house felt, he hinted.

If the royal family believes that Princess Elizabeth should marry an English commoner, I think it may work between them. He’s not in love with her, but I think he’d be happy to benefit from her affection. ”Sad‘ No, thank you.

Years later, thanks to the diary of the same author who narrated, the same count stated that “his wishes were not to marry Elizabeth II,” despite being the favorite for George V and the Queen Mother.

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

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Already at that time, the monarch would have been totally enthusiastic about the Duke of Edinburgh whom he had known for these years, although it is said that FitzRoy came to provoke great enthusiasm, then became a memory of his youth. Today amid various controversies and rumors that have surrounded Queen Elizabeth, 94, and Duke Philip, 99, they have celebrated 73 years of marriage.