The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-29

princes of ire blood royal, ana a solemnly garbed figure, the Home Secretary, whose presence was re- quired at the birth of royal child.
 Crowds Awaited News
 Outside, in Bruton Street, ordi- nary citizens of London gathered in excited groups to discuss the event, for even without knowing whether the child of the Duke and Duchess of York was boy or a girl they knew that some day the little ad- dition to the royal family might rule over them.
 Aging George V was on the throne, and next to him the most popular figure in the Empire was the Prince of Wales, but the prince had shown himself sluggard as regards mar rlage, and next in line for the throne was his brother, the Duke of York, and after him, his children.
 Thus from the moment of her birth, Princess Elizabeth was third in line for the succession.
 Baby Hand Won Hearts
 Here has been a colorful, if some what restricted, existence under the supervision of loving parents much in the public eye themselves; of roy al nurses and royal retainers; of progress from town palaces to coun- try castles with all the pomp of a medieval princess's retinue accom- panying her.
 From the time she first waved to adcring men and women from her carriage in a drive around Wind sor Great Park to the present. when her appearance in public is an eagerly watched-for event, she has conducted herself like one born to the purple and ermine of soyer- eigns, and has done it with child ish charm and warmth of spirit that have endeared her to all gen. erations.
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 Her mother was Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, of an aristocratic Scot tish family whose seat is Glamis Castle where the Lyons of the Great Strath have dwelled as lords of the region for centuries and where Mac beth murdered Duncan in his ill., starred acpira tio,,c +o 4l,, +l...o.- - Scotland.
 II was to this castle that Princess Elizabeth was taken when she was three months old, to start, in baby winning fashion, the tremendous hold she has on her Scottish people from whom her mother springs-a hold only equaled by the adoration that is hers from the people of Eng land and the Empire at large.
 Four years later. August 21, 1880, at Glamis Castle, her mother gave birth to second child, who was named Margaret Rose. The next day, when Elizabeth awoke, she was told of. the event by her nurse. Her surprise and delight knew no bounds and she donned her clothes more quickly that day, perhaps, than at any other time in her life, so great was her eagerness to see the tiny arrival.
 With her sister, and with few blue-blooded cousins, Elizabeth has spent her leisure hours in games.
 Ever Nearer ot Throne Her father, then Duke of York, was the second son of George V. The Duke loomed on the horizon of succession to the throne ever lar ger as years passed and his elder brother the Prince of Wales re- mained bachelor.
 Once, indeed, Edward and Lady Elizabeth had been brought togeth- CT, and hopes had been high that match might result, but a real romance failed to blossom. When Edward dropped out. the Duke of York wooed and won.
 ! Today, Elizabeth's father is King George VI and her mother is Queen Elizabeth, but it is to an earlier Bess that the new heir-apparent to the throne has been and is being lik- ened.