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HRH Princess Margaret Windsor | Royalty | Princess | Fc:Vanessa Kirby 

In her very own opinion, Margaret would say that between herself and her sister, she would be more suited to the crown. More lively and always having had an easier time charming people than her sister did, Margaret thought she’d be the better fit for a ruler. This didn’t mean that she didn’t love her sister, she really did love Elizabeth, but it caused a somewhat undercurrent of tension between the two since they both realised that Elizabeth would be the next queen.

Though Margaret did see the upside of not being the heir, having more freedom to do as she wished and more free time to do what she liked – with who she liked. Another upside that the princess found that she could in fact spend some time with whoever she fancied and she did just that.

Then she met Peter and her view on the world shifted, no longer was she second to somebody, she was first. And she understood love, she understood what it meant for the first time in her life to be whole. But now Peter’s gone and she’s never felt so alone or so lost in her life and all because of what her sister did.

Queen Elizabeth II | Royalty | Monarch | Fc:Claire Foy

Elizabeth was never born to be queen.

She was born to live comfortably, to live a relatively normal life away from the media and would be able raise her children somewhere quiet with a big garden. Instead, her uncle abdicates to able to marry the woman he loved and very suddenly her father is the king and she is now heir to the throne. A life unexpected, a life unwanted.

However, she would like to say that the inheritance of the crown wasn’t entirely awful. It allowed her to meet Philip, though she was far too young for him on their first encounter. Serval chance meetings over the years allowed her to really fall in love with him, she’d fancied him right from the get-go but never did she really think the two would end up falling deeply for each other. Though she’d never admit it, a part of her had always admired what her uncle had done – given up everything for love. So, when Philip proposed and then later gave up his other titles so the two could be wed, she thought she had truly found her soulmate.

Life was never that easy.

Blissful years are spent in Malta and two beautiful children are brought into the world, her marriage is a happy one and she would never have reason to doubt her husband’s love for her. In a word, she would describe the life there as perfect, it was similar to the one she had been born for. Quiet. Loved. Happy.