By Tim Dams U.K. broadcaster ITV has commissioned a documentary exploring how Queen Elizabeth II’s experiences during World War II shaped her monarchy.
Produced by the BBC Studios Documentary Unit, the one-hour documentary, entitled “Our Queen At War,” tells the story of how the war transformed a teenage princess into the country’s longest-reigning monarch.
The Queen recently remarked on her wartime experience in an address to the U.K. — only the fifth such address in her 68-year reign — when she recalled a radio broadcast made at Windsor in 1940 with her younger sister, Princess Margaret. “We, as children, spoke from here at Windsor to children who had been evacuated from their homes and sent away for their own safety,” she said during
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