Elizabeth may have been the first qualified mechanic to become British monarch. The parents didn't want her to join the forces, but she persisted and wrung from them their slow leave by laboursome petition and joined the Army, where she trained as a mechanic who could also drive all the vehicles she worked on. …
Elizabeth may have been the first qualified mechanic to become British monarch. The parents didn't want her to join the forces, but she persisted and wrung from them their slow leave by laboursome petition and joined the Army, where she trained as a mechanic who could also drive all the vehicles she worked on. Moreoever, she enjoyed wielding the spanner as a royal, rather a rude, mechanical.
Britain was the first modern state to conscript women, who played critical roles throughout the war, but even if she didn't exactly set an "example" there, she demonstrated early that sense of duty that would inform the long course of her reign.
As Shakespeare might have put it: Take a soldier. Take a Queen.
Great story about Charles.
Elizabeth may have been the first qualified mechanic to become British monarch. The parents didn't want her to join the forces, but she persisted and wrung from them their slow leave by laboursome petition and joined the Army, where she trained as a mechanic who could also drive all the vehicles she worked on. Moreoever, she enjoyed wielding the spanner as a royal, rather a rude, mechanical.
Britain was the first modern state to conscript women, who played critical roles throughout the war, but even if she didn't exactly set an "example" there, she demonstrated early that sense of duty that would inform the long course of her reign.
As Shakespeare might have put it: Take a soldier. Take a Queen.