{"id":210634,"date":"2026-04-26T22:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T22:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/210634\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T22:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T22:39:14","slug":"why-queen-elizabeth-wouldnt-let-herself-experience-feelings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/210634\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Queen Elizabeth Wouldn’t Let Herself Experience Feelings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Queen Elizabeth II<\/a> had an incredible career<\/a>, spending seven decades on the British throne<\/a>. But according to one royal biographer<\/a>, there were certain things even the late Queen<\/a> wasn’t very good at, including showing emotion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the book My Mother and I, royal expert Ingrid Seward<\/a> discussed Queen Elizabeth’s alleged inability to show her emotions in certain situations.<\/p>\n

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Former politician Douglas Hurd told Seward, “The Queen trained feelings out of herself in order to avoid any confrontation.”<\/p>\n

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According to Seward, “The Queen’s former press secretary, the late, enigmatic Martin Charteris, who started working for her when she was Princess Elizabeth, agreed” with Hurd’s summation.<\/p>\n

Charteris told the royal expert, “The Queen is not good at showing affection. She’d always be doing her duty.”<\/p>\n


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“The Queen is not good at showing affection. She’d always be doing her duty.”<\/p>\n

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Charteris spent more than two decades working with the Royal Family<\/a>, and told Seward that “The Queen really had very little to do with [her first child, King] Charles.” As the former press secretary explained, “He’d have an hour after tea with Mummy when she was in the country, but somehow even those contacts were lacking in warmth.”<\/p>\n

According to Charteris, it wasn’t just Queen Elizabeth who had a subdued approach to expressing emotions. “[Prince Philip<\/a>] would be rather grumpy, about almost anything,” the former royal employee told Seward. “And neither of them was there very much.”<\/p>\n

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As a result, King Charles<\/a> reportedly spent much of his childhood alone or, at the very least, apart from his parents.<\/p>\n

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Describing Charles’s childhood, Seward noted, “It was a terribly old-fashioned, upper-class upbringing.” The royal expert continued, “The Royal Family never spoke about their difficulties, and if any of them had a problem they never talked it over. They only spoke about the most trivial of things and, as a result, awkward issues were left in abeyance until it was too late.”<\/p>\n

Basically, Queen Elizabeth seemingly put duty ahead of anything else, which led to her feeling the need to suppress her own emotions.<\/p>\n

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