She became both the first ... Second World War. Dr Dunlop meets ATS veterans who served at the same period and gets behind the wheel of a Bedford 1500, the same lorry driven by Queen Elizabeth.
Queen Elizabeth celebrated this week her 96th birthday this. It was in October 1940, then Princess Elizabeth, who delivered a broadcast on Children’s Hour during the Second World War.
"It really was a genuine closeness, and Elizabeth was ... once went to the First World War battlefields and museums of northern France, which obviously the Queen wasn't able to do," Seward said.