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She also shared snaps of her as a teenager in gaining a lifesaving swimming badgeCredit: @RoyalFamily/Twitter
Her Majesty spoke about her teenage years growing up in the Second World War and recalled her pride earning a Junior Respiration Award from the Royal Life Saving Society.
She was 14-years-old when she joined sister Princess Margaret for swimming lessons at the Bath Club, a gentleman’s club in Dover Street, Mayfair, in 1941.
Speaking on a video call with the Royal Life Saving Society released today, she said: I didn’t realise I was the first one. I just did it, and had to work very hard for it.
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By George Bowden
media captionThe Queen says she was very proud to wear the badge when she received her respirator award in 1941
The Queen has fondly remembered becoming the first young person in the Commonwealth to receive a junior lifesaving award from the Royal Life Saving Society.
As Princess Elizabeth, she was 14 years old when she earned the junior respiration award in February 1941.
Her Majesty, 95, learnt she was the very first to receive the award during a call last week with the society.
When told 80 years had since passed, she proclaimed: That s terrible!
The Queen smiled and looked in good spirits during last Thursday s virtual meeting, just days after she began official engagements following the death of her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh.
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She also shared snaps of her as a teenager in gaining a lifesaving swimming badgeCredit: @RoyalFamily/Twitter
Her Majesty spoke about her teenage years growing up in the Second World War and recalled her pride earning a Junior Respiration Award from the Royal Life Saving Society.
She was 14-years-old when she joined sister Princess Margaret for swimming lessons at the Bath Club, a gentleman’s club in Dover Street, Mayfair, in 1941.
Speaking on a video call with the Royal Life Saving Society released today, she said: I didn’t realise I was the first one. I just did it, and had to work very hard for it.
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The Queen has recollected becoming the first young person in the Commonwealth to receive a junior lifesaving award from the Royal Life Saving Society.
As a 14-year-old the Queen, then Princess Elizabeth, earned her junior respiration award in February 1941, after completing training at a gentlemen’s club in central London, where she had swimming lessons with her sister Princess Margaret.
Smiling and looking in good spirits just a few weeks after the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral, she recalled those days during a conversation with lifeguards, who have been recognised for saving swimmers, and a senior figure from the Royal Life Saving Society.