Also, when the Queen was born, she was only third in line to the throne, behind her uncle, the future King Edward VIII, and then Elizabeth’s father.

However, when her uncle abdicated the throne in 1936, Prince Albert unexpectedly became King George VI, making Elizabeth the heir presumptive.

Elizabeth was just 10 years old at the time, but before this, she and her sister Margaret, just four years apart, had a very happy and close childhood.

By the time Beatrice and Eugenie were born, many royal commentators noticed the striking similarities between the closeness of the two pairs of sisters, born just two generations apart.

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