“I am glad we have been bombed. Now we can look the East End in the eye.”

— Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

After the Luftwaffe bombed the Buckingham Palace whilst the King and Queen were in residence on 13 September 1940.

[Davies, Caroline, How the Luftwaffe bombed the palace, in the Queen Mother's own words, The Guardian, 13 September 2009, https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/sep/13/queen-mother-biography-shawcross-luftwaffe]

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