May 1939 News Today

we have the original coronation china, the cakes are baked, the bunting is up, raincoats at the ready. one special guest and her special guest. welcome to the bbc breakfast platinum jubilee party! cheering its going to be an emotional night here at hampden when scotland host ukraine in a world cup play—off semifinal. itll be ukraines first competitive fixture since being invaded by russia in february. and good morning from the gardens of buckingham palace, which i looking beautifully...

July 1931. so she was just five years old then. quite a good height, actually, for a five—year—old, i would have thought. yes. and then 19... 32. and that 33 was not — she didnt grow very much at that point. and then, of course, she shot up, up to may 1939. and isnt that interesting, that here she is measured injuly 1952 — so...what — four orfive months after her succession? — and she is recorded as, of course, the queen. the bowes—lyons are part of the queens extended family. they...