'Thunderstruck' Queen carried the weight - behind the scenes of historic event laid bare
- 2 years ago
Ken Clarke’s son, whose father had a near unique glimpse of the Queen as she travelled to Nairobi as a young princess, only to come home early as the new Queen, has revealed the change in her countenance his dad witnessed - from the “happiest woman in the world” to “thunderstruck”. Ken Clarke, who died aged 88 in 2003, was one of only four stewards on the 25-year-old’s now famous flight to and from Kenya in February 1952, and spoke of how impressed he was with the young woman’s handling of her grief and new responsibility. He told his family how the Queen enjoyed her usual gin and tonic on the way over, but stayed alcohol-free on the way back after her father King George VI died suddenly - ...
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