I See The Queen...

Jackdaw33 | 11:15 Sat 06th Feb 2016 | News

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...clocks up 64 years on the throne today. Almost 90 and still going strong. Some feat.

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Canary42

Do you remember where you were when the news broke that her father had died? I do.

Mamyalynne

Wasn't born then.

mikey4444

I was born two days after the Coronation !

zebo

There is a strange family story about G6's death. I was 3, almost 4 and I can still see, in my mind's eye, me trailing behind my mother to the coal hole on the side of the house to get coal and our neighbour called to her Oh isn't it awful, the King's dead. My mother insisted it never happened, my father gave her the news before he went out to work. However, the news wasn't released until late morning, so he couldn't have done that. Odd, my memory of it is so clear to me. She died before I found out about the timing.

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I was three but can't remember it. My first memory is going to my gran's for lunch so my mother could go and watch the coronation on a neighbour's TV. I can remember her telling me, later, that she had been listening to the Light Programme in the morning when the wireless suddenly went dead. She went to ask the woman next door if hers was OK, which it wasn't. People were told to stand by their radios for an announcement, which came at 11am.

mikey4444

My Mum used to say that it was my fault that hse missed the Coronation, as while all the others women in the Ward were watching on the tiny television, my Mum was too busy biting pillows down the other end. She has been gone 20 years this May, so I can't check, but I suppose she might have been in labour for 2 days, until the 4th, when I popped out !