{"id":1322,"date":"2025-07-14T10:34:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T15:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/?p=1322"},"modified":"2025-07-15T15:55:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T20:55:59","slug":"letter-of-thanks-from-queen-elizabeth-queen-elizabeth-iis-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/2025\/letter-of-thanks-from-queen-elizabeth-queen-elizabeth-iis-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter of thanks from Queen Elizabeth, Queen Elizabeth II’s mother"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The following wording was sent to my maternal grandfather’s mother shortly after the Second World War. This was sent to a few people and, according to Caerleon.net<\/a> was in thanks for taking in evacuees. Given that my maternal great grandmother lived on the south coast of England, I was surprised that this was something that she might be asked to do, but it’s a lovely thing to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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I WISH TO MARK, BY THIS PERSONAL MESSAGE, my appreciation of the service you have rendered to your
Country in 1939-
In the early days of the War you opened your door to strangers who were in need of shelter, & offered to share your home with them.
I know that to this unselfish task you have sacrificed much of your own comfort, & that it could not have been achieved without the loyal co-operation of all your household.
By your sympathy you have earned the gratitude of those to whom you have shown hospitality, & by your readiness to serve you have helped the State in a work of great value.
Elizabeth R<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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The following wording was sent to my maternal grandfather’s mother shortly after the Second World War. This was sent to a few people and, according to Caerleon.net was in thanks for taking in evacuees. Given that my maternal great grandmother lived on the south coast of England, I was surprised that this was something that she might be asked to do, but it’s a lovely thing to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1334,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions\/1334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}