The Queen Mother (83 page)

61.
The King and Queen on the royal train as they leave Toronto, June 1939.

62.
The Queen driving through Washington D.C. with Eleanor Roosevelt, 8 June 1939.

63.
The King and Queen talking to a shipyard worker on a wartime tour of the North-west, 2 September 1940.

64.
The Queen on a wartime tour of south London, talking to bombed-out residents, 11 September 1940.

65.
‘Dear old B.P. is
still standing
!’ The King and Queen surveying the damage after the bombing of Buckingham Palace on 9 September 1940.

66.
The Queen visiting an air-raid shelter in an Underground station, at the height of the Blitz, in November 1940.

67.
The King and Queen talking to young air-raid victims having their supper at a rest centre in November 1940.

68.
The King and Queen visiting a bomb site in London, April 1941.

69.
With the Princesses at a wartime poetry reading on 14 April 1943. Left to right: Arthur Waley, Princess Elizabeth, Osbert Sitwell, the Queen, Princess Margaret and Walter De La Mare.

70.
The Princesses on stage in the 1944 Windsor Castle pantomime,
Old Mother Red Riding Boots
.

71.
VE Day, 8 May 1945.

72.
‘We four’ on tour in South Africa, 1947, with the police crew of the White Train.