Queen Elizabeth Candidly Writes About Life as a Mom to Charles and Anne in Private Letter to Midwife

Before she became Queen Elizabeth, Princess Elizabeth was a mom of two youngsters.

 A handwritten letter signed by the history-making monarch to her midwife, Helen Rowe (called "Rowie" in the message), is up for bid via RR Auction. The note is dated Oct. 4, 1950, less than two months after the then-Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip became parents of two. The future King Charles became a big brother with the birth of Princess Anne in August of that year.

 Elizabeth, then 24, penned the letter from Balmoral Castle in Scotland, the beloved residence that the British royal family traditionally retreats in the late summer and early fall. It's also where Queen Elizabeth died in Sept. 2022 at age 96.

 "We are all getting on very well up here and I am feeling very much stronger already," the royal wrote. "It was lovely to be on the hill again the second day I was here, but the third day, the Jeep which takes one everywhere over the ground missed picking me up and I had to walk down to the road, with the result that I strained my knee on something, which has been very effective in keeping me within bounds! However, the air is so good that I feel better every day, and though I still go to sleep in the afternoon, I don’t do it so often now... Read more