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
The Kitchie-Boy a dead man, but she refuses him until he reveals the truth. The father marries him to his daughter. In some variants, nine months later, the daughter reveals the truth at her son's christening, and her father accepts it, as proof of her cunning. The Kitchie-Boy "The Kitchie-Boy" (also known as "Bonny Foot-Boy" or "Earl Richard's Daughter") is Child ballad number 252; Roud number 252. A lady falls in love with the kitchen boy. She manages to speak with him, but he is afraid that her father will kill him. She takes her dowry and has a bonny ship built,