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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...

Courtesy Buckingham Palace Eighty years ago, then-Princess Elizabeth received a special honor from the Royal Life Saving Society. The organization, founded in 1891, works to prevent avoidable drowning deaths by promoting water safety and delivering lifesaving and lifeguarding education. The Queen was the first person to receive the Society's Junior Respiration Award, for providing an example to young people and helping to establish lifesaving and resuscitation qualifications across the Commonwealth. Today, the Queen participated in a video call with the organization, and shared her memories ...