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 Old Man's Complaint Against His Wretched Son, Who to Advance His Marriage Did Undo Himself preventing them from the possibility of conceiving a child. It was a problem that drove the wife to grief and, as a result, she sought sexual dalliances with other men, yet her pursuits could not alleviate her pain. Unable to bear her misery, she strangles herself and dies. The husband, meanwhile, as a result of his grief over her death dies as well. His ungrateful children finally dead, the father is able to enjoy the remainder of his life. The Old Man's Complaint Against His Wretched Son, Who to Advance His Marriage Did Undo Himself "A Ballad Intituled, The Old