By Ian Lloyd Sonia met the Queen while out playing in Hamilton Gardens, behind the Yorks' London home aged four One of the highlights of the Royal Childhood exhibition which opens at Buckingham Palace today is the Queen's unfinished novel, written when she was just eight. As we revealed exclusively in Weekend last week, it was called The Happy Farm and dedicated 'To Sonia, My dear little friend and lover of horses.' And now we can reveal who Sonia was - the girl who became 'my dear little friend' to the most famous woman in the world. It all began in 1930 when, aged just four, Princess Elizabeth of York bumped into Sonia Graham-Hodgson while out playing in Hamilton Gardens, behind the Yorks' London home, 145 Piccadilly, a stone's throw from Hyde Park.
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Sonia met the Queen when she was just four years old
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They became great friends, with the Queen dedicating her novel to Sonia
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Sonia says that the Queen loved getting away from the palace
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