Q 01/05

Rather than a palace, Elizabeth's 1926 birthplace was a Mayfair town house belonging to whom?

A) Her mother's parents

B) Her father's parents

C) Her father's elder brother

D) Her mother's elder sister

Answer · why

A) Her mother's parents

Her mother's parents, the Earl and Countess of Strathmore, owned 17 Bruton Street; the baby was only third in line to the throne, and almost nobody ex...

Q 02/05

What was Elizabeth's family nickname, based on what she called herself as a small child?

A) Bess

B) Lilibet

C) Lizzie

D) Betty

Answer · why

B) Lilibet

Lilibet was her own first attempt at saying Elizabeth, and it stuck in the family for life; in 2021 Prince Harry and Meghan gave the name to their dau...

Q 03/05

What did the young Elizabeth call her grandfather King George V?

A) Grandpa England

B) Grandpa King

C) The Admiral

D) Papa George

Answer · why

A) Grandpa England

Grandpa England was a stern king who doted on her, and in 1929 she was sent to the seaside to help him recover from a grave illness.

Q 04/05

Which governess dismayed the royal family by publishing The Little Princesses in 1950?

A) Marion Crawford

B) Clara Knight

C) Cecilia Bowes-Lyon

D) Bobo MacDonald

Answer · why

A) Marion Crawford

The book describes Elizabeth's love of horses and dogs, her orderliness and her sense of responsibility.

Q 05/05

Whose 1936 abdication over Wallis Simpson made ten-year-old Elizabeth heir presumptive?

A) Her great-uncle the Duke of Connaught

B) Her grandfather George V

C) Her uncle Edward VIII

D) Her cousin Louis Mountbatten

Answer · why

C) Her uncle Edward VIII

Her uncle Edward VIII reigned for less than eleven months; her shy, stammering father took the throne much against his will as George VI, which put El...