Remembering the Queen
September 21, 2022
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My own small collection of Queen Elizabeth souvenirs, ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous, will be cherished as mementoes of a distant yet very constant presence in my life.
My own small collection of Queen Elizabeth souvenirs, ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous, will be cherished as mementoes of a distant yet very constant presence in my life.
The royal family and I go back a long way, since I’ve been fascinated with them since my earliest memory. Here’s a personal history of my lifelong association with this unique clan.
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 […]
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 […]
