Queen Elizabeth II: Childhood, Challenges and Personality Development

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Biography & Analysis of Queen Elizabeth II Personality refers to our personal set of relatively permanent characteristics that allows us to express our individuality. Our personality is subjectable to change and development throughout one’s life due to nature and nurture. While we are born with certain genes that influence our personality there are also cultural, experiential, and social influence throughout our life. Childhood is also an extremely important part in the shaping of our personality. Things during this time period has been theorized to affect our personality greatly. The book Elizabeth the Queen The life of a Modern Monarch, written by Sally Bedell Smith, gives insight on the life of Queen Elizabeth II. Through it you learn about Queen Elizabeth’s personality development from her lush carefree childhood to being thrown into the new life of an aristocrat. Queen Elizabeth lived a lavish, carefree and loving life, however unforeseen events caused this to change. How did this shape her personality? Born on April 21 1926, to the Duke and Duchess of York, Queen Elizabeth II received the privileged life of being a royal without the pressures of someday ascending the throne. This was due to the fact she was third in line to the throne, with her uncle being first but also quite young. She was therefore able live the first …show more content…

Both the duke and duchess had hated school and more so wanted their children to receive a happy childhood. The duke had only one request for their nanny, Marion Crawford, and that was to teach them a good hand. Therefore there wasn’t much expectation for Elizabeth to excel in her studies. But Crawford took it upon herself to fill her with more knowledge. Elizabeth therefore had developed an aptitude for learning and literature. Her daily timetable always had time blocked out for

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