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Originally posted by LightWorker13
How can the US and Britain go from being arch enemies, to being such good friends in literally 5 years after the Revolutionary War ended? Because Britain gained COMPLETELY control, and the new American leaders were set up by the Royals, to do their bidding.
Study history before you defend this inbred piece of trash.
Originally posted by GradyPhilpott
In America, we have an elegant First Lady, but who gets all the media?
Paris Hilton
Rosie O'Donnell
Anna Nicole Simpson (deceased)
Originally posted by CX
Originally posted by LightWorker13
Queen Elizabeth, who probably never worked a single day in her life
[edit on 9-5-2007 by LightWorker13]
Lets not forget the work she did as a lorry driver alongside all the others here in the war effort, which ultimately aided towards the freedoms we have today which enable people like you to sit here and freely spout hate crap like this!
In 1945, Princess Elizabeth convinced her father that she should be allowed to contribute directly to the war effort. She joined the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service, where she was known as No 230873 Second Subaltern Elizabeth Windsor, and was trained as a driver. This training was the first time she had been taught together with other students. It is said that she greatly enjoyed this and that this experience led her to send her own children to school rather than have them educated at home. She was the first, and so far only, female member of the royal family to actually serve in the armed forces, though Queen Victoria was Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian militia, and other royal women have been given honorary ranks. During the VE Day celebrations in London, she and her sister dressed in ordinary clothing[citation needed] and slipped into the crowd secretly to celebrate with everyone.
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During World War II (1939-1945) Elizabeth and her younger sister were sent for safety from Buckingham Palace in London to live first at Balmoral, Scotland, and later at the royal lodge at Windsor, England. Although her father did not want Elizabeth to be called up for national service during the war, she herself was most eager to join the Auxiliary Territorial Service, the women’s branch of the British Army. She was finally allowed to join in March 1945.
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Elizabeth and her younger sister Margaret were educated at home. On the outbreak of war in 1939, they were evacuated to Windsor Castle. In 1945, Elizabeth joined the war effort, training as a driver in the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service (WATS).
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At 16, as World War II raged, she asked her father if she could serve as a volunteer nurse in bombed-damaged [sic] London, but he though [sic] it was too dangerous. She persisted in asking, and when she was 18 he allowed her to volunteer with the Auxiliary Territorial Service, where she was trained to drive and repair heavy transport vehicles, although she was not allowed to do much of the actual driving and repair work.
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In 1945, the year in which she flew for the first time, the teenage Princess took a courageous decision: fiercely desirous of showing that she was resolved to do her bit for the war effort, she joined the Auxiliary Territorial Services as Second Subaltern No. 230873, a rank equivalent to second lieutenant. It was at this time that Elizabeth truly began to fulfil [sic] her mother’s ambitions for her. Her contemporaries frequently remarked not only on how at ease she appeared, but also on what a capable driver she was!
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