Edward VIII "the boy will ruin himself in twelve months." Second-in-line to the throne was the prince's younger brother Albert ("Bertie"). Albert and his wife, Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother), had two children, including Princess Elizabeth ("Lilibet"), the future Queen Elizabeth II. George V favoured Albert and his granddaughter Elizabeth and told a courtier, "I pray to God that my eldest son will never marry and have children, and that nothing will come between Bertie and Lilibet and the throne." In 1929, "Time" magazine reported that the Prince of Wales teased his sister-in-law, by calling her "Queen Elizabeth". The magazine asked if
For Today I Am a Boy a girl and aspires to embody the femininity his sisters are easily allowed. He struggles in his relationship with his father, a dictatorial, patriarchal man who is committed to eradicating his family's Chinese heritage and shaping Peter into an ideal Western man. At age 18, Peter moves away from home and to Montreal, where he works in restaurants and leads a lonely life. He has affairs with two older women, the first an abusive mother of a casual friend, and the second a Christian evangelist trying to purge herself of lesbianism. "For Today I Am a Boy" received several accolades