The British Royal Family -- The two girls sitting on this couch are Princess Elizabeth , heir to the throne of England, and her sister Princess Margaret Rose. They are sitting in Buckingham Palace, reading a book.Already, Princess Elizabeth is emerging from the schoolroom into public life, for not long ago she celebrated her sixteenth birthday by inspecting the Grenadier guards, of which she is Colonel-in-Chief, by making her first public speech.No sovereigns for at least a hundred and fifty years have sat on the throne of England in more and ***** times than the parent of these two girls.Kind George VI and Queen Elizabeth must friend much comfort in these two happy children. September 14, 1942. (Photo by Fox Photos Ltd.)