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Aged 3, Princess Elizabeth waits on the platform at King's Cross station, about to depart with her Royal grandparents for Christmas holidays at Sandringham on 21st December 1929.
The Queen's early years were spent in the family home at 145 Piccadilly and in the company of her nanny, Clara Knight as her parents were obliged to undertake many royal duties abroad.
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