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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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