Both King George VI and Queen Mary kept diaries recording #VJDay75.
The day before, Queen Mary notes that: “There was a false alarm about peace for a time, that was declared definitely about midnight, so night was made hideous with noises, fireworks etc. impossible to sleep.”
The day before, Queen Mary notes that: “There was a false alarm about peace for a time, that was declared definitely about midnight, so night was made hideous with noises, fireworks etc. impossible to sleep.”
On 15 August 1945 she writes that during the day “The crowds most disturbing & calling out ‘We want the Queen’ at intervals & I had to go & wave! After dinner I adjoined to the top of Marlborough House to see the flood lighting of Buckingham Palace etc. most lovely”
King George VI wrote, “The Prime Minister & some of his colleagues came to congratulate me on the victorious ending of the war”. The King and Queen “went out to the Balcony 6 times during the afternoon & evening”, large crowds having amassed outside Buckingham Palace by 10am.
