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A ROYAL QUEST 皇家任务（三） THE YEARS THAT followed were bleak for Elizabeth. Normally cheerful, her mood darkens as she speaks of them, and her sharp humour dulls. While her brothers were sent to boarding school, she was taught for some years by Nurse Ede, bereft of the company of other children. Princess Olga was often away. Prince Paul remained severely depressed for some years after going into exile: silent, unable to function, desperately thin. 对伊丽莎白而言之后都是些阴郁的年份。她通常性格开朗，但提及这些往事情绪一下就低沉了，言语也失去了锐利和幽默。当她的哥哥们被送往寄宿制学校时，有几年就由保姆埃德来教她，失去了其他小伙伴的陪伴。奥尔加公主经常外出，而保罗亲王在被驱逐后的那几年里患上了严重的抑郁症：沉默寡言；身体机能失调；消瘦不堪。 When Elizabeth finally started school in South Africa, she remembers the weird feeling of being surrounded by children. She was nine. I had always been alone. But I thought it was wonderful. We lived in a suburb, I went to school on a bus—we had normality. We had a fantastic cat, more like a dog, and I would sit in a tree with my book, a radio and the cat. I was happy then. 伊丽莎白最后得以在南非上学。她回忆起那时“夹在孩子们中间的那种怪异感觉”她当时只有9岁。“我总是一个人独处，但我喜欢这样。我和家人住在郊外，我坐巴士去上学。我们过着平常人的生活。家里养着一只招人喜欢的猫咪，它看起来更像是一条狗。我经常坐在树下看书或听收音机，猫咪在一旁陪着我。我那时感觉很惬意。” Although her parents didn’t discuss it, the past cast a long shadow. Aged ten, Elizabeth hit a classmate who had called her father a Nazi, and was sent home from school. Another child, making a similar accusation, held her under water in the swimming pool. When, at 13, she was sent to a horrible boarding school in England—Tudor Hall—she tried to remain inconspicuous by calling herself simply Elizabeth George. She was still taunted, even by one of the teachers. 尽管她父母不议论那件事情，但它依然投下了长长的阴影。伊丽莎白痛揍了一个管她父亲叫纳粹的同学，因而被学校开除。另一个小孩由于同样的原因被她按到了游泳池的水中。她13岁那年被送到了位于英格兰的一所“恐怖的寄宿制学校”——都铎堂学校（Tudor Hall）。她给自己起了一个普通的名字“伊丽莎白?乔治”，想避免惹人注目。但她仍然受到了奚落，甚至她的一位老师也这样。 When Elizabeth was in her late teens, tragedy struck. First, her favourite brother, Nicholas, was killed in a car accident; then, in quick succession, both her grandmother and an aunt died. There was a deep feeling of gloom and doom