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To: ansel12; NEWwoman
If believing that makes you happy, wonderful. :-)

Btw, it IS where she learned to drive.

37 posted on 05/17/2013 9:44:22 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (My faith and politics cannot be separated)
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To: DJ MacWoW
I don't want to believe in fantasy and fake history, especially that created by Monarchs, no one becomes a mechanic in 3 weeks and her service only came once it was over, she enlisted weeks before the surrender and never left the castle overnight.

""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; 50 years later, her grandsons would eat cadet food, iron their own uniforms, polish their own boots and be shouted at on the drill square.

Despite her kid-glove treatment, Princess Elizabeth greatly appreciated her spell in the ATS, believing it gave her a confidence she had previously lacked

The war in Europe was now drawing to a close and on May 8, 1945, the two princesses were allowed out of the Palace with their Guards officer friends to mingle with the crowds in the Mall and join in the shouts of "We want the King""

45 posted on 05/17/2013 9:56:51 PM PDT by ansel12
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