Before Queen Elizabeth II was the queen, she was a girl, princess, and sister.
Elizabeth wore her army uniform that day.
In her 1985 interview, the late queen recalled the fear of someone knowing who they were.
“I pulled my uniform cap well down over my eyes.
So I had to put my cap on normally” (viaYouTube).
Queen Elizabeth remembered the joy swirling in the crowds during her and Margaret’s VE Day excursion.
“I think it was one of the most memorable nights of my life.”
The outlet also shared quotes from the diary of Elizabeth and Margaret’s father, then-King George VI.
She described exiting Buckingham Palace and cheering when the king and queen stepped on the balcony.
Rhodes added, “It was like a wonderful escape for the girls.
I don’t think they’d ever been out among millions of people.
It was just freedom to be an ordinary person” (viaDaily Mail Weekend Magazine).
No one recognized Princess Elizabeth or Princess Margaret during that dancing display, brushing them off as intoxicated.
One person recognized Elizabeth and Margaret during their excursion from Buckingham Palace.
But they were people like anyone else we didn’t take any notice of them" (viaTatler).
