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QUEEN OF HEARTS

The Queen had a secret crush on her bodyguard as a teen – and gushed he was like a ‘young giant’ to her cousin

THE Queen admitted she had a crush on her bodyguard as a teenager, describing the Scot as 'devastatingly attractive’. 

Unearthed letters from the Queen to her cousin, Diana Bowes-Lyon, revealed the then-princess took a shine to soldier Roddy Macleod, aka Roderick Cameron Robertson-Macleod. 

Princess Elizabeth, pictured in 1943, described Roddy as 'devastating attractive'
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Princess Elizabeth, pictured in 1943, described Roddy as 'devastating attractive' Credit: Getty Images - Getty

Then Princess Elizabeth, she gushed over the “devastating attractive” Scot in the note, revealing he also caught her sister, Princess Margaret’s, eye as well. 

Roddy, who was 26 in 1945, was 6ft 4ins, an Army captain and educated at Eton, and had spent nearly five years as a Nazi prisoner of war.

The Queen, aged 19 when she wrote the letter in November 1945, a few months after the war ended, starts off by saying ‘darling Diana’. 

She called Roddy: “A devastatingly attractive young giant with fair hair and blue eyes, of course, from Skye called Roddy Macleod!

The Queen wrote the letter when she was just 19
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The Queen wrote the letter when she was just 19

“He caused my Margaret’s heart to flutter a bit I think, and mine too a bit, and he was great fun! We learned a great many Scottish country dances.”

She goes on to tell her cousin about the dances she’s been to, adding she’s not been “doing badly in the way of fun”.

And she refers to one joyous occasion, the wedding of Johnny, 4th Earl of Kimberley to Diana Legh, where she complained about eavesdropping. 

The Queen wrote: “It became so packed one couldn’t move without a horrid old lady listening to what one said to every man one met!”

The Queen later married Prince Philip nearly two years later, in 1947
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The Queen later married Prince Philip nearly two years later, in 1947Credit: Getty - Contributor

The 93-year-old’s six page letter was written just eight months before she announced her engagement to Prince Philip. 

The pair tied the knot two years later, in November 1947. 

The note, written on official Buckingham Palace paper, is part of 400 photos and letters up for sale - ranging from £1,750 to £5,750 - in the Two Centuries of Royal Children collection, marking Prince George’s birth.

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