I just happened to be in the UK for the weekend of the Double Diamond (60) celebration. Lots of hoopla.
>>I just happened to be in the UK for the weekend of the Double Diamond (60) celebration. Lots of hoopla.<<
My mother and father were in the throngs of well-wishers when Elizabeth and Philip were married in late 1947. My father recently had been posted as a U.S. Army exchange officer to study at the Royal Military College of Science near Shrivenham.
Despite the post-war hardships the British people were experiencing (rationing in GB continued for years after the war), my folks remembered their time in England as among the best of their lives. Through the U.S. Army, they could obtain goods that their British and Commonwealth friends could not, including gasoline/petrol, meat, sugar, chocolate, hosiery. They shared what they could.
She was in Kenya visiting the greatest big cat hunter Jim Corbett. He had recently moved to Kenya from his beloved India after India broke away from Britain.