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On This Day, September 27th

In October 1938 George was appointed Governor-General of Australia in succession to Lord Gowrie with effect from November 1939.

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Princess Elizabeth, as a 2nd Subaltern in the ATS, leans against a vehicle during training. Imperial War Museum, TR 2835. Princess Elizabeth began her training as a mechanic in March 1945. She undertook a driving and vehicle maintenance course at Aldershot, qualifying on April 14. Newspapers at the time dubbed her "Princess Auto Mechanic.".

Construction of RMS Queen Elizabeth launched in 1938 Stock Photo Alamy

17 Bruton Street, Mayfair. While many would assume a future Queen would enter the world in the most palatial of surroundings, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was actually born in a townhouse in.

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85 6.5K views 6 years ago This historic film, made by Cunard White Star Lines to promote the Queen Elizabeth, begins with the launching of a ship in the year 1938, as hull no.552 — at 1031ft.

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Queen Elizabeth was crowned alongside her husband The King at Westminster Abbey on May 12th, 1937. The Queen wore a crown set with the magnificent Kohinoor diamond. View image |.

Shortbread & Ginger A Royal Lady 1938

Right photo (Oct. 9, 1938): Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret ride in a carriage with their parents, the king and queen, to attend a morning service in Scotland. AFP/Getty Images hide caption

Cunard opens photographic archive for Queen Elizabeth II 90th

Risen from the keel up in the shipyards of John Brown & Co. from 1936 to 1938, the ship was christened by her majesty, Queen Elizabeth, Queen consort of the United Kingdom on Sept. 27, 1938. Curnard's big plans for their newest and biggest vessel included a royal tour of the ship in 1939 and its maiden voyage to be in the following spring in 1940.

Life Magazine July 25, 1938 Cover Queen Elizabeth (Queen Mother

Queen Elizabeth herself performed the launching ceremony on 27 September 1938. [10] Supposedly, the liner started to slide into the water before the Queen could officially launch her, and acting sharply, she managed to smash a bottle of Australian red over the liner's bow just before it slid out of reach. [14]

Queen Elizabeth II Princess Elizabeth seen in the Royal Box at the

King George VI paid State Visits to France in 1938, and to Canada and the United States in 1939, the first British monarch to enter the United States.. In 1947, the King undertook a major tour of South Africa, accompanied by the Queen and their daughters, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret - the first time a monarch had undertaken a.

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History River Clyde RMS Queen Elizabeth was launched at Clydebank in September 1938, with the Royal Family watching on The enormous luxury ocean liner was revealed to hundreds of thousands of.

Queen Elizabeth II, thenPrincess Elizabeth, photo taken in 1938 12

In September 1938, a 12-year-old Princess Elizabeth attended the first of what would be many events with Cunard. She, and her eight-year-old sister Princess Margaret, joined their mother in Clydebank to launch what was then the largest ship in the world, Cunard's Queen Elizabeth. The two young princesses, known to have had a close and.

HISTORY The CUNARD WHITE STAR Liner rms QUEEN ELIZABETH (19381972

Item title reads - Her Majesty launches the "Queen Elizabeth"Clydebank, Scotland. M/S as the royal car drives in carrying Queen Elizabeth (later Queen Elizab.

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The Interiors of RMS Queen Elizabeth (1938) Introduction. On 16 June 1946, the Queen Elizabeth was put into dry dock at Southampton to complete her refurbishment. Large amounts of furniture were fitted into the liner. There were 4500 settees, chairs and tables, 4000 mattresses, 50,000 items of bed and table linen, 31,000 pillow cases, 21,000 towels, 6000 curtains which represen

daily timewaster The launch of RMS Queen Elizabeth, 1938.

Queen Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother) on 27 September 1938, who named the ship RMS. Queen Elizabeth. It had been hoped that HM. King George V would attend the launch of the ship, however the worsening political situation in Europe meant the King was unable to travel to Scotland for the launch.

Shortbread & Ginger A Royal Lady 1938

Today, for our final flashback, we will feature King George VI and Queen Elizabeth 's infamous State Visit to Paris in July 1938. Originally scheduled for June, it was postponed to July after the Queen's mother, the Countess of Strathmore, died five days before the start of the visit.

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The QUEEN ELIZABETH of 1938 never visited the port of Liverpool, but on her stern were the words QUEEN ELIZABETH LIVERPOOL. That is quite sufficient to ensure her a place in the story of Liverpool ships. Over forty years ago, in 1972, the world's largest liner, the RMS QUEEN ELIZABETH, was lying on her side in Hong Kong harbour, a burnt-out hulk.