New Records Release: Research individuals who were awarded a personal souvenir for their participation in a previous Coronation or Jubilee ceremony.
Tag: King
First speech of Princess Elizabeth, the future Queen
The first public speech by a young Princess Elizabeth, which was made at the height of the Battle of Britain to the children of the Commonwealth on 13th October 1940
Monarchs at War: symbolic figureheads of a nation in peril, or something more?
The traditional picture of a king or queen at war is of an impressive figure in splendid armour, roaring an inspirational speech along the lines of Shakespeare’s “We few, we happy few,…