Queen Elizabeth Pictorial Edition - Newspaper Book

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Queen Elizabeth Pictorial Edition
- Newspaper Book
- Gift Details. To mark the Queen Elizabeth II 90th birthday celebrations, we’ve specially created a personalised book featuring original newspaper Queen Elizabeth II life story articles as well as 32 official pictures from the Daily Mirror archive – a truly wonderful gift for celebrating the Queen’s 90th birthday. The Queen Elizabeth book opens with eight pages of exclusive pictorial images, taken from the Daily Mirror, from 26th April 1926, showing Her Majesty in the arms of her mother, at her christening in Buckingham Palace alongside her father, the Duke of York (future King George VI), King George V, the Earl of Strathmore, Queen Mary, the Countess of Strathmore, & Princess Mary. The Queen Elizabeth II history book then moves onto original newspaper reports from 6th February 1952 on the death of King George VI, the event which forced a young Elizabeth into the limelight. News of her father’s death broke whilst Elizabeth was away in Kenya with the Duke of Edinburgh, & a short while later, she was declared queen, aged only 25. Read all about the Queen’s Coronation ceremony on June 2nd 1953, held in Westminster Abbey, followed by a procession through London. Both the ceremony & the procession are extensively covered in this personalised Queen 90th birthday book, as the nation watched & celebrated this historic occasion. Being the Queen of seven different countries (United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zeal&, South Africa, Ceylon & Pakistan) as well as Head of the Commonwealth, the Queen’s numerous official tours of these countries are recorded in this historical book. Inside are articles which report on Queen Elizabeth II’s first official tour as Queen as she spent six months visiting 12 countries in the Commonwealth, starting in Bermuda & finishing in Gibraltar. Queen Elizabeth’s historic visit to Irel&, the first visit by a monarch to Ireland for 100 years, is also included in this gift book.