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Now we can look the East End in the face.

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Floradora9 Sun 06-Sept-26 16:28:30

This has gone down in history stated by the then Queen Elizabeth later the Queen mother as showing how brave they were staying on in Buckinham Palace .
I have been reading a book about the East End in wartime and was astonished to read that she was generally hated there . The locals saw her and the king visiting bombed out homes and all they themselves had suffered was some damage to a wall . They thought she was turning up with new fur coats on and had no idea of the loss these people had had .
I always knew she had an iron will behind her sweet smile but this I did not know .

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Whingey Sun 06-Sept-26 16:36:18

er they didn't have hundreds of other rooms to go in!

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cornergran Sun 06-Sept-26 16:59:58

My mother lived with her family in the East End, they experienced much deprivation, danger and loss, certainly no family members ever expressed hatred for any of the riyal family. Rather the reverse. I guess experiences differed, opinions differed and maybe recollections also differed.

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Doodledog Sun 06-Sept-26 17:07:38

There is a school of thought that far from being the sweet old lady she portrayed (smiling in her pastel coats), the QM was hard as nails and quite spiteful to staff and 'lesser' mortals.

For reasons I don't understand (possibly an interest in Anne Boleyn) YouTube keeps showing me videos on exactly that theme - their algorithms are peculiar, as I rarely watch them.

Obviously I have no idea how true they are, but there are enough of them to make me wonder, and as the QM is long dead, I can think of no sensible reason why people would want to speak against her if they aren't true.

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