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21st birthday speech of Princess Elizabeth

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all its challenges and with all its opportunity" but that it was "a great help to know that there are multitudes of friends all round the world who are thinking of me and who wish me well". Elizabeth said that she was "6,000 miles from the country where I was born, but I am certainly not 6,000 miles from home" as she and her family had been "made to feel that we are just as much at home here as if we had lived among them all our lives". She asked to speak as the "representative" of the youth of the Commonwealth who had grown up during the Second World War and said it was "surely a great joy to us all to think that we shall be able to take some of the burden off the shoulders of our elders who have fought and worked and suffered to protect our childhood". Elizabeth then quoted the poet
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In the speech Elizabeth said that she welcomed "the opportunity to speak to all the peoples of the British Commonwealth and Empire, wherever they live, whatever race they come from, and whatever language they speak" and said that the day bought "serious thoughts-thoughts of life looming ahead with
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Elizabeth's biographer, Matthew Dennison, believed that the speech was a "poetic precursor" to the oath she subsequently delivered at her coronation. Lascelles wrote that he was "a bit exhilarated by the tremendous success" of the speech. Elizabeth's grandmother
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by cable car was abandoned due to inclement weather. Elizabeth then reviewed 7,000 troops and associated South African military personnel at a parade at Youngsfield Military Base in
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in the United Kingdom at 6:55 pm on 21 April 1947, her 21st birthday. Her birthday had been declared a
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The speech was pre-recorded on 13 April while Elizabeth was at the Victoria Falls Hotel in
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The speech was broadcast to the "youth of the Empire" and was broadcast on the
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to the British throne, gave a speech that was broadcast to the
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on her 21st birthday. Elizabeth was accompanying her parents,
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wrote in her diary that she wept upon hearing the speech.
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Index

Princess Elizabeth
heir presumptive
British Commonwealth
King George VI
Queen Elizabeth
BBC Home Service
national holiday in South Africa
Government House
Table Mountain
Ottery, Cape Town
South African cabinet
prime minister of South Africa
Jan Smuts
Princess Elizabeth's 21st Birthday Speech

the speech
media help
Dermot Morrah
The Times
Alan Lascelles
private secretary to the sovereign
Elizabeth I
speech at Tilbury
Queen Victoria
Southern Rhodesia
Rupert Brooke
William Pitt the Younger
Ich dien
fourth season
The Crown

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