Queen Elizabeth II was an interesting and influential personality in the British Royal Family. She died at the age of 96 on September 8 at Balmoral Castle, Scotland. She was the longest-living and longest-reigning British monarch with a tenure of 70 years and 214 days.
Her Majesty’s private life is as interesting as her public life. But there is one aspect of her which isn’t very talked about. That is her early schooling and education and the courses she did if she did. Coming from a powerful royal family, it is pretty obvious that the queen had access to everything.
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Did Queen Elizabeth II Go To School?
Queen Elizabeth II died on 8 September at Balmoral Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. She lived a long and interesting life that has the subject of discussion in media circles. One of the things is the education she received.
Did she go to a school? Not really. Elizabeth, who was a princess at that time, received an education deemed suitable for a future queen. She was educated at home by some prominent teachers.
Elizabeth was privately tutored at home with her younger sister, Princess Margaret as it was the norm at that time. Most of it was supervised by her mother, The Queen Mother.
Since she was seven years old, Elizabeth was taught reading and writing the French language, piano, and dancing. After her father became the king in 1936, she started studying constitutional history and law.
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Elizabeth And Her Sister Were The Last One To Be Home Tutored
Elizabeth II and her sister Margaret were the last members of the royal family to be educated at home by tutors in the traditional manner.
The two were tutored by the governess Marion Crawford and later the provost of Eton College, Henry Marten. She is not the most educated queen of the British Royal family.
Historian David Starkey once criticized the queen for her lack of education and compared her unfavorably to Queen Elizabeth I who knew several languages. He also said that she was “20 times as well educated” as Elizabeth II.
Marco Houston, the editor of ‘Royalty Monthly’, came into her defense. He said that she “may not have had the best formal education, but she has had the best education at the university of life.”
