‘It is extraordinary how her arrival is so popular out here,’ wrote her father, the future George VI, to his mother Queen Mary from Australia. ‘Wherever we go, cheers are given for her as well.’‘It almost frightens me that the people should love her so much,’ her mother wrote. When the Queen Mother died in 2002, people clapped respectfully as the Queen’s car returned from commemorative prayers at Westminster Hall to Buckingham Palace. The following year, the Queen visited a Devon pub, accepting a crate of commemorative ale for Prince Philip. How extraordinary…’When the Queen Mother died in 2002, people clapped respectfully as the Queen’s car returned from commemorative prayers at Westminster Hall to Buckingham Palace.

Source: Daily Mail May 22, 2021 21:04 UTC