Queen Mother’s birthday
- Title
- Queen Mother’s birthday
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Vox pop; Speech
- TX Date
- 4 Aug 1989
- Year of production
- 1989
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- Duration
- 00:03:17
- Description
- Simon Bowden reports on Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother’s eighty-ninth birthday. Includes bagpipe music; interviews with Grace Crook, Royal Britain Exhibition; Anthony Holden, royal biographer; members of the public voice opinions; archive recording of abdication speech by King Edward VIII in 1936 which led to her becoming wife of the new king.
- Contributors
- Simon Bowden; Grace Crook; Anthony Holden; King Edward VIII
- Keywords
- Royal family; Royalty; Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother; Birthdays; Widows
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