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Queen Elizabeth II's Speech to the Children of the Commonwealth

Laura jones was speaking to kitty baxter, who wrote a book during lock down about her experiences in the war. Kitty and hetty were reunited with their sister mary at the railway station in ipswich. Sheh'd been staying near by the whole time and had been enjoying her life in suffolk. Then mum took them home because london felt safe. But that was about to change with the start of the blits. Now we heard a snippet from the queen's debut public speech, a radio address to the children of the commonwealth on october thirteenth, 19 forty. At the time, she was a young princess, just 13 years old. It

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