00:00 In the busy corridors of the king's chair, life seems simple and resolved, but it can
00:05 be very lonely at times.
00:08 For the queen, two people truly filled the void she felt.
00:12 One was her husband, and the other was her sister.
00:16 According to Mirror, James Darcy said the queen and her sister were very close.
00:22 Princess Margaret had always been the queen's glamorous and mischievous sister, and they
00:26 were devoted to each other.
00:29 Growing up, the queen's family had been a tight-knit unit they called themselves as
00:34 four.
00:35 After the death of their father, the two sisters became even closer.
00:40 The queen had a responsibility like no other in the royal family, and she was respected
00:44 as such by her family and the public.
00:48 This also meant, however, that she needed someone in her original family nucleus to
00:52 talk with.
00:54 Dr. Ed Owens told Mirror, "It's a very lonely place being sat atop a throne.
01:01 And to have a companion, to have a confidant who you can confide in and to whom you can
01:06 tell secrets to."
01:08 Historian Dr. Kate Williams added that Margaret gave her life for the crown.
01:13 The loss of Margaret was really cataclysmic to the queen.
01:17 It was very, very painful.
01:21 The queen did see that Margaret's health had been put under strain by what had been
01:24 denied to her emotionally.
01:27 The passing of her beloved husband, Prince Philip, in 2021 left a void in her life, accentuating
01:33 her fears of loneliness that had already loomed large.
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