The man who rejected Queen Elizabeth II as his wife

Queen Elizabeth II would experience her first major disappointment in her early years, a man she would be in love with would reject her as a wife.

At that time still young Queen Isabel IIHe met the one who would be his first illusion and who he would even dream of getting married to, but he would have another person in mind and not the future monarch.

Those were years when the young and next Sovereign of England still didn’t see her ascend this close to the throne, even then she could enjoy a few afternoons of lectures, confidences, dancing and playing with one of those who had been her best friend from childhood. was finished, Alathea Fitzalan Howard.

The life of Isabel II She struggles to stay largely out of the public eye, but there are things that were not as good as she and her family would have liked during this time.

One of the great secrets about the royal family, coming from her childhood, the monarch who grew up in Windsor Castle with her sister Margaret, shared a friendship with Alathea Fitzalan Howard, great-granddaughter of the Duke of Norfolk, from a very young age. During the Second World War, he spent much of his time on the estate of the Castle of Windsor share games, dance lessons and paint with the princesses.

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During her adolescence, Alathea began to write a diary that recounted her experiences along with those of Elizabeth Marie (Queen Elizabeth), this summary of anecdotes, was one of the dreams that grew inside her, to publish her experiences one day, the diary contained secrets he shared with the queen today and her now deceased sister at that age.

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

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

The man who rejected Elizabeth II

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

In one part of the collection, Alathea already expressed her disappointment after the departure of the count, on February 7, 1942, she stated in one of the lines of her diary “” It is terrible that he is going abroad, maybe he will he does not return never to see him, ”where the young woman said that Elizabeth II“ loved him too ”.

However, it was that same year that “Lilibeth”, as Isabel was affectionately known, met Felipe, the Duke of Edinburgh, whom Earl FitzRoy would also know and of whom he would come to say, “He is kind and with a great sense of understanding. of humor., but it’s not his type. “

Even then, Alathea showed a certain jealousy at the closeness of the Earl and his best friend, the Queen.

They (the royal family) are so overly nice to him that you might wonder if they have an idea behind it. I am sure he prefers Lilibet over me, he wrote in his diary.

Likewise, she added that the Earl was not that keen on her, but perhaps he was considering the opportunity to take advantage of the affection felt by the British home, he hinted.

If the Royal Family thinks Princess Elizabeth should marry an English citizen, I think it could work between them. He is not in love with her, but I think he would like to take advantage of her affection. “Sad” No thanks.

Years later, thanks to the diary of the same author who said that the Earl himself stated that “his wish was not to marry Elizabeth II,” despite being the favorite of George V and the Queen Mother.

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

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Already at that time, the monarch is said to have been utterly enthusiastic about the Duke of Edinburgh she had known in those years, although, on the basis of what is said, FitzRoy generated great enthusiasm and then became a memory of her childhood. Today, amid various controversies and rumors surrounding 94-year-old Queen Elizabeth and 99-year-old Duke Felipe, they have completed 73 years of marriage.