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She wasn’t meant to be queen. She was the granddaughter of King George V, but her father was not the heir to the throne, but his older brother, Edward, Prince of Wales. But in 1936 Eduardo abdicated to marry Wallis Simpson, a divorced American. In the photo, little Isabel María Alejandra on a visit to Balmoral in 1933, at the age of 7, together with her uncle Eduardo, then heir to the throne. UNCREDITED/AP
