When King George VI died and the new Queen was proclaimed Barbara English was a 19-year-old student at St Andrew's
File photo dated 02/06/1953 of Queen Elizabeth II on the throne as bishops pay homage to her during her Coronation in Westminster Abbey, London. The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon, Buckingham Palace has announced. Credit: PA Wire
The Beverley-based historian, 89, next recalls seeing the Queen when she opened Hull Royal Infirmary in 1967 - one of around a dozen trips to the region the Monarch made in the past seven decades. Prof English, who married a surgeon, only knew of the Queen previously from pictures she'd seen as a child growing up in the Second World War mending a jeep.
She also visited Hull during its year as City of Culture in 2017, and was greeted by cheers as she stepped onto the platform at Paragon Station from the Royal Train. Last night a statement from East Riding Council said the Queen had been a “beacon of hope, stability and unity”.
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