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Journalism of Courage
Britains Queen Elizabeth I and her husband King George VI almost got killed in a German aerial raid during World War II,revealed a letter by the Queen Mother,hours after the incident.
The Sunday Times reported that in the letter to mother-in-law Queen Mary,the late Queen Mother wrote about the unmistakable whirr-whirr of a German plane which frightened the couple before it carried a bombing attack on her dear old BP (Buckingham Palace). We heard the unmistakable whirr-whirr of a German plane. We said ah,a German,and before anything else could be said,there was the noise of aircraft and then the scream of a bomb.
It all happened so quickly that we had only time to look foolishly at each other,when the scream hurtled past us,and exploded with a tremendous crash in the quadrangle. My knees trembled a little bit for a minute or two after the explosions! But we both feel quite well today, the Queen Mother wrote to Queen Mary,hours after the bombing raid on September 13,1940.
