It is not hard to imagine the confusion of emotions that will be flooding through ’s mind today: sadness and anxiety at his father’s illness but also bewilderment at the enormity of the challenge now facing him and the inevitable sacrifices he will be forced to make.The parallels with those that confronted his beloved grandmother more than 70 years ago are striking. The then Princess Elizabeth was 25 and a young mother when she so unexpectedly succeeded her father as monarch.She and had every reason to hope that they had a good ten years of family life ahead of them before the responsibility of the throne would intervene.
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