Queen Elizabeth II’s Sweetest Moments With Her Great-Grandchildren Through the Years

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One proud “Gan-Gan”! While Queen Elizabeth II has a very busy job as the sovereign of the United Kingdom and its Commonwealth territories, she still finds time to prioritize her family and her many great-grandchildren.“The queen is in her element when she’s got her great-grandchildren sitting on her lap and having that family time,” royal expert Kerene Barefield exclusively told Us Weekly in December 2021. “I’m sure it’s something that we’ll never ever get to witness — that kind of really relaxed family time, which is what everyone else has at Christmas.”The long-reigning monarch — who marked 70 years on the throne in February 2022 — first became a proud great-grandparent in December 2010 when grandson Peter Phillips welcomed his eldest daughter, Savannah, with ex-wife Autumn Kelly.

Since then, Elizabeth’s brood has expanded to include 12 great-grandchildren, including Prince William and Duchess Kate’s three kids, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, as well as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s two little ones, Archie and Lilibet.“George is only 2 [and a half] and he calls her ‘Gan-Gan,’” the Duchess of Cambridge previously said during a March 2016 interview for ITV’s Our Queen at Ninety documentary. “She always leaves a little gift or something in their room when we go and stay, and that just shows her love for the family.”Kate added: “The queen was really thrilled that [my second child] was a little girl, and I think as soon as we came back here to Kensington Palace [from the hospital], she was one of our first visitors here.”Not only does Elizabeth have a close connection to many of her littlest relatives, but their parents also chose to honor her when it came to deciding on a name.