Message from King George VI to British Children

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8 Jun 1946

ww2dbase8th June, 1946

To-day, as we celebrate victory, I send this personal message to you and all other boys and girls at school. For you have shared in the hardships and dangers of a total war and you have shared no less in the triumph of the Allied Nations.

I know you will always feel proud to belong to a country which was capable of such supreme effort; proud, too, of parents and elder brothers and sisters who by their courage, endurance and enterprise brought victory. May these qualities be yours as you grow up and join in the common effort to establish among the nations of the world unity and peace.

[Signed "George R. I."] ww2dbase



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Message from King George VI of the United Kingdom to British children, 8 Jun 1946





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Visitor Submitted Comments

1. Mick Malton says:
25 Mar 2023 05:05:53 AM

When I got this message I felt proud and had it framed and put over my bed.
I think my royalist tendency began then.

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