Christmas with the Queen

Christmas with the Queen

 

QE II as driver at end of WWII
Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth (April 1945), in her Auxiliary Territorial Services uniform. She was trained as a driver and mechanic.
(Wikimedia CC public domain)

 

Elizabeth, Elizabeth, Winston, George, and Margaret
On the balcony of Buckingham Palace, 8 May 1945

From left to right: Princess Elizabeth, Queen Elizabeth, Sir Winston Churchill, King George VI, and Princess Margaret.
Princess Elizabeth assumed the throne in 1952, on the death of her father; her formal coronation took place in 1953.
(Wikimedia CC public domain)

 

It’s a tad late, but I enjoyed listening to the very Christian 2015 Christmas message from Queen Elizabeth II, who will turn 90 on 21 April 2016:

 

https://www.facebook.com/TELEGRAPH.CO.UK/videos/10153862836414749/?pnref=story

 

Thanks to Anne Palmieri and Charles Steinman for alerting me to it.

 

 


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