The Royal Family’s appearance alongside war hero Winston Churchill on the Buckingham Palace balcony is one of the iconic moments of VE Day in 1945. But what is less well known is that the monarch ...
On May 8, 1945, Princess Elizabeth joined the crowds in London to celebrate VE Day – an evening she later called ‘one of the most memorable nights of my life’. After becoming the heir presumptive to ...
May 8 marks 80 years since the close of the European theater in World War II, when Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allies. The fighting in Europe stopped when the Chief of Staff of the German Armed ...