As people around the world, we all for the most part follow social rules , but could you imagine living under royalty and being looked at all the time. This is a hard for a child to understand her father's job and at the same time that some day she will be given this power. They were never sent to school but a lady by name of Marion Crawford taught them(Wood 9). Their education was good but not great and they did not as children get a broad view of society outside. Their routine was around the family and that played an important role into her childhood life. .
During World War II, Princess Elizabeth spent much of the war at Windsor Castle, because of all the bombing at her home castle Buckingham Palace(Delderfield 154). The war had caused her father to move the family for their safety and but in protective actions in the royal line. "After the war she accompanied her parents on a tour to South Africa and celebrated her twenty-first birthday, making a speech dedication to the Commonwealth" (Delderfield 154). The war had been awhile of isolation for safety reasons and this further more had kept her from society. Then right after the war is when privileges were given more easier to her. She joined the Auxiliary Territorial service, changing wheels of jeeps she was able to be around ordinary people(Wood 13). Finally she began to have some freedom from society. I can't blame her parents for a war can have that much of an effect. In the book written by Woods she said that Buckingham place had been hit nine times. It is scarey that war can cause such dramatic results in society in England at that time.
Elizabeth met Philip when she was just 13. He was a young naval officer and prince of Greece who showed her around the Royal naval college, it was love at first sight and she never forgot him(Wood 15). She met him long before they had reached the decision to get married. It was love at first sight that had delivered these two to want to get married.