Princess Elizabeth, who late became Queen Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the British royal family, was born on April 21, 1926. Just six months after her thirteenth birthday, the world went to war. This determined teenager threw herself into the war effort and over her father’s objections, she even joined the armed forces and trained as […]
Fearing an enemy invasion, thousands of Canadian girls as young as sixteen joined volunteer militia groups in wartime, learning how to conduct air raid patrols, use firearms and incredibly, how to handle bombs!
Fifty thousand Canadian women in uniform served during the Second World War. Even while battling the Third Reich, they still wanted to look their best. Since they were forced to wear the same hat every day for years, style was crucial. So which branch of the armed forces had the most flattering headgear? You be […]
No wonder thousands of wartime weddings and passionate love affairs took place during those heady years. Was there ever a period in history when romance was so exciting, so terrifying, and yet so wonderful as during wartime? Here are photographs of some lovely wartime weddings, just in time for Valentine’s Day. I included all the […]
Very few Royal Canadian Air Force airwomen received the coveted posting overseas but Nancy Lee, from a remote ranch in the Rocky Mountains, was one of the fortunate few. A few years before she died, I was lucky enough to interview Nancy, still as smart and strong-minded and sassy as ever, about her wartime experiences. […]
This sweet-faced woman later known as Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, boosted morale so vigorously during the Second World War that Adolf Hitler himself called her “the most dangerous woman in Europe.” The young Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother Queen Elizabeth, mother of the current queen, died in 2002 at the age of one hundred […]
