Posted on 06/06/2024 9:50:06 AM PDT by RummyChick
On May 19, 1944, two and a half weeks before the 'Operation Overlord' landings took place, Princess Elizabeth spent the day with her parents inspecting airborne troops in the North of England.
The presence of the Heiress Presumptive with King George VI and Queen Elizabeth guaranteed blanket media coverage.
The event included one of the biggest glider landings ever made in Britain.
By the time the display had finished the aerodrome was crowded with hundreds of the small aircraft.
Earlier in the day, the royal party watched as several hundred parachutists dropped from the sky in formation.
What readers did not know is that this visit - and one the previous March where Princess Elizabeth and her parents inspected Scottish troops and armoured infantry units - was all part of an elaborate ruse to confuse Adolf Hitler ahead of D-Day.
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kate middleton’s grandmother helped crack the code at Bletchley
Uncle Bosey did his part by giving a tummy ache to some savage natives.
Sorry to go on a tangent, but Tommy Lascelles (played by Philip D'Oyly "Pip" Torrens) on "The Crown" was by far the best character in that series, even if not a major one.
Wow!
Her dad’s mother
this is also an interesting story about a battle of egos
she was quite a woman.
Too bad her grandson is such a knob
She was a good sheila, and not at all stuck-up.
That story about being a mechanic during the war and actually doing that job is a myth, in the last few weeks of the war she did enlist and do the photo ops and image thing, but it was never real and she went home to Windsor Castle every night.
“She was enlisted as 230873 Second Subaltern Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, the ATS, [March, 1945] and sent to train as a transport officer at Camberley. The course was three weeks and Princess Elizabeth did not associate too closely with her fellow trainees.
She lunched in the officers’ mess and slept the night at Windsor Castle”
I have no doubt what you posted is accurate and that her wartime service was a myth...but perhaps it was just the myth the English people needed at that time. When it comes to creating myths and legends to provide much needed morale and rally people to a cause, the English are hardly unique, just possibly more skilled than most.
Her majesty’s a pretty nice girl but she doesn’t have a lot to say.
I agree and it seems it was handled very nicely for the British war public but being realistic and truthful is more than called for long after the war and is a must for Americans and American conservatives above all.
People can’t go around thinking she was an actual WWII school trained army auto mechanic and driving around alone on the streets of wartime Britain.
“She was also, on her 16th birthday, appointed Colonel of the Grenadier Guards. The regiment presented her with a Colonel’s Colour as a birthday present.
She inspected the regiment, an experience she found “a bit mark frightening but not as bad as she expected”. Thus began her lifelong association with the Grenadiers, which she is known to cherish.
The training battalion of the Grenadiers was stationed at Windsor Castle during the war as a close protection force and the young officers became the princesses’ first escorts, whom they called their “flirts”.”
I’d like to tell her that I love her a lot, but I’ve got to get a belly full of wine.
Queen Elizabeth was the ONLY world leader who was a VETERAN of WWII.
Their “rulers” serve better than our “public servants”!
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