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Royal biographer Ingrid Seward has claimed that Queen Elizabeth was “unable to enjoy” her time as a mother. It has been reported in the past that the Queen did not form a particularly close relationship with her children when they were young because she took on the huge role of Queen when she was just 26 years old. She was also part of a generation and class that routinely left the daily care of small children in the hands of household staff. In past biographies, Charles has been quoted saying it was “inevitably the nursery staff” who taught him to play, witnessed his first steps, punished and…

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