This is what Queen Elizabeth II is really like as a mother

Throughout her reign, the Queen has frequently taken long trips to foreign countries, but none more controversial than the punishing overseas tour of the Commonwealth she embarked on in 1953. Over the course of six months, Elizabeth visited 13 countries – including Australia, New Zealand, Bermuda, Jamaica and Uganda – when Charles was three years old and Anne was just a toddler, leaving them at home. Only 27 herself, the Queen had been monarch for just a year and a half. The Queen also left Charles and Anne behind for long stretches while visiting Philip in Malta, a time that has been described as the happiest of her life, but which reportedly saddened the Queen Mum.