At age eighteen, Princess Elizabeth watching British parachutists before D-Day 1944: #IWM
Sixteen-year-old Princess Elizabeth [right] and her family with Eleanor Roosevelt, Buckingham Palace, 1942, during World War II: #Beaton
Queen Elizabeth at Balmoral Castle in Scotland with Prince Philip and President Eisenhower, Princess Anne and Prince Charles, 1959: #AP
Princess Elizabeth met at Washington National Airport, 1951, by President Truman: #HSTL
The Queen and Prince Philip with JFK and Jackie Kennedy, Buckingham Palace, June 1961: #Getty
And no, the version in “The Crown" of the JFK-Jackie visit to Buckingham Palace 1961 is not very close to what actualy happened.
“I’m afraid this isn’t my suit,” VP Nixon told the Queen when she arrived for dinner, 1957, at the U.S. Ambassador’s residence, London. Nixon had forgotten to bring black tie and in “desperation” borrowed the suit from another guest who was persuaded to dine alone upstairs.
Reagan and the Queen, San Francisco, 1983: #Walker
An American President breaks the rules by turning his back to the Queen, Windsor Castle, 2018:
“The talking hat” became the joking nickname for the Queen after she spoke from behind a too-tall Presidential lectern on the South Lawn at the White House of George H.W. Bush, 1991: #Getty
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Sixty years ago today, two heroic, courageous and idealistic young Black Americans, Vivian Malone and James Hood, entered the University of Alabama after JFK federalized the Alabama National Guard and Governor George Wallace stepped aside after trying to bar them:
During a partially-improvised Oval Office speech, JFK declares civil rights "a moral issue" and pledges to send comprehensive bill to Congress, sixty years ago tonight:
Medgar Evers, World War II veteran and NAACP field secretary in Mississippi, was murdered outside his home, hours after the civil rights speech JFK gave sixty years ago tonight:
Now why would anyone possibly think that a sudden, loud, unexplained boom in Washington DC on a Sunday afternoon might alarm anyone?
We take you now to the Ellipse, near the White House in Washington DC, where a flying saucer has landed. U.S. military tanks have rolled up, and a nervous crowd has gathered. . .
Someone has just stepped out of the flying saucer that landed near the White House after we heard that boom. He's shouting, "Take us to your leader -- Truman!"