The speech that made the Queen cry: How Princess Elizabeth’s famous 1947 broadcast where she made solemn vow was written by a journalist – before draft was misplaced in a Cape Town bar
It was the speech that came to define the late Queen’s 70 years on the throne. Speaking to the nation from Cape Town on her 21st birthday in 1947, Princess Elizabeth promised Britons that her ‘whole life whether it be long or short’ would be devoted to their service. Royal writer Valentine Low revealed in … Read more