Daily Mail: 'Our streets aren't empty, they are filled with love': The Queen says VE Day generation would still recognise Britain's lock-downed nation in electrifying speech - exactly 75 years after her father marked the end of WWII in Europe
* The 94-year-old monarch said that 'we are still a nation those brave soldiers would recognise and admire'
* Her words were delivered at 9pm, to the very second her father George VI gave his VE Day speech in 1945
* The Queen's speech was filmed in the white drawing room at Windsor last week, where she is isolating
* Britons across the country have thrown patriotic street parties at socially acceptable distances all today
The Queen paid tribute to Britain's lockdown spirit tonight with an electrifying speech on the 75th anniversary of VE Day, in which she said Second World War heroes would admire the nation's response to the pandemic.
The 94-year-old monarch, who was 13 when war broke out in 1939, added: 'It may seem hard that we cannot mark this special anniversary as we would wish. Instead we remember from our homes and our doorsteps.
'But our streets are not empty; they are filled with the love and the care that we have for each other.
'And when I look at our country today, and see what we are willing to do to protect and support one another, I say with pride that we are still a nation those brave soldiers, sailors and airmen would recognise and admire.'
Her words were delivered to the very second that her father, George VI, gave his VE Day speech 75 years ago.
The Queen's speech was filmed in the white drawing room at Windsor last week, where she and her husband, Philip, 98, who served with distinction in the Royal Navy during the war, are isolating.
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Update #1: 'The war had been a total war': Queen Elizabeth II, in a special VE Day message, draws similarities between WWII and the coronavirus pandemic (Business Insider)
Update #2: Queen is surrounded by personal wartime mementos during VE Day address including brooches given to her by her father and cap from her time in Auxiliary Territorial Service in 1945 (Daily Mail)
WNU Editor: The U.K. will definitely miss her when she is no longer with us.
3 comments:
This being the third attempt at posting a reply...
Indeed. I remember her seeing her coronation on a Hoffman brand TV then running off to elementary school.
I've never known a world without her and her husband.
Monkey see monkey do they all died 4 no reasons just like past and future wars you fools
2 wrong dont make a right
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