A new documentary shows how WWII made Queen Elizabeth the leader she is today.
. “I am thinking especially today of all the young men and women who were born about the same time as myself and have grown up, like me, in terrible and glorious years of the second world war,” she said. “Will you, the youth of the British family of nations, let me speak on my birthday as your representative?”The Queen at War,
which premieres tonight on PBS. Interweaving the queen’s coming-of-age and London’s despair and determination during WWII, it aims to show how those tumultuous times made her the dutiful leader she is today. Those looking for an action-packed retrospective should look elsewhere: the princess and her sister were, well, protected kids during these years. But that’s not to say they were immune from the anxieties and realities of conflict: More than one million women, children, elderly and disabled people were evacuated from London, including the princesses, to escape the Blitz.
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