A life of duty, service and responsibility

Greg Videon Sep 18 2022

The Royal couple were each presented with an album of the Folk Museum. Mrs Rasche of Ultima spent 250 hours of work on each of the two hand-tooled, leather-covered albums.

1926 - Princess Elizabeth is born on April 21 in Mayfair, London, th eldest child of the Duke and Duchess of York and third in line to the British throne

1936 - The duke becomes king as George VI on the abdication of his elder brother, Edward VIII

1939 - At the start of World War II in September, the Royal Family rejects suggestions they be evacuated to Canada

1940 - Princess Elizabeth makes a ...

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