Queen: Public 'have right to know' about health says expert

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The Queen became the first female of the Royal Family to be an active duty member of the British Armed Forces. In 1944, when the then-Princess turned 18, she insisted on joining the Auxiliary Territorial Service. The royal however faced stiff opposition from her parents, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, and had “persistently” pressure the pair to be allowed to serve.

Author Tessa Dunlop spoke to Kate Thornton on the Royal Beat about the Queen’s role in the war. 

She said: “As the history books will tell us, Elizabeth, unlike many children alongside Margaret was not evacuated from a major city out into the countryside.

“Her father and the Queen Mother made a point that the family would stay in London throughout all of the bombings and the Blitz.

“She was bored and she was fed up and persistently bothered him to allow her to sign up.”

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“What’s fascinating about the Queen as this Princess HRH Elizabeth is that when you parallel her story next to other women’s stories and I’ve seen their letters and I’ve talked to them extensively, they were all going through the same thing.

“All coming of age, young teenagers.”

She added: “It drags on, if we think coronavirus is long, this is nearly 6 years, they are desperate to become part of the action.

“At that point there was no genuine end in sight.”

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“Just grinding on, interestingly, the role of women got bigger as the war went on.”

“Once you get your allied troops into Europe after the D-Day landings, you need auxiliaries.”

“You need women to feed them, to administer them, to nurse them.”

“Putting women in uniform and sending them overseas.”

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Princess Elizabeth then began her training as a mechanic in March 1945.

She undertook a driving and vehicle maintenance course at Aldershot, qualifying on April 14.

Newspapers at the time dubbed her “Princess Auto Mechanic.”

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