AN ENTIRE HOUSE
When the Queen’s parents, then the Duke and Duchess of York, took over the Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park in 1932, Princess Elizabeth did not walk away empty-handed! At the tender age of six, the young princess (pictured, in 1933) received a special gift from the nation of Wales – her very own cottage, which she would go on to share with her younger sister, Princess Margaret. The charming dollhouse-like building was named Y Bwthyn Bach (“the little cottage” in Welsh).
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