ALATHEA FITZALAN HOWARD: Teenage Elizabeth is pictured left, while Prince Philip is seen right as a schoolboy. Princesses Elizabeth (right) and Margaret are seen inset dressed in costume for a production of Cinderella - with their mother at Windsor in 1941. I often wonder how Lilibet is content always to just go out with her parents. Doesn't she ever want to talk or walk alone with a friend? Much as I love Margaret, I wish L had no younger sister, as then she would seek the company of people of her own age more. She doesn't know what a real friend is, as she never talks confidentially to one and she's the most ungossipy person I know. Placid and unemotional, she never desires what doesn't come her way; always happy in her own family, she never needs the companionship of outsiders; she never suffers, therefore she never strongly desires. If only she could be drawn out of her shell, she who has so much at her feet, who can be so gay and amusing. Margaret is far and away more the type I would like for the future queen - she has that frivolity and irresponsibility that L lacks, though one couldn't call either of them dull.