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BBC News 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 smi...

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...