To Mummy and Papa, in memory of their Coronation, from Lilibet (by hand)
A note from the eleven-year-old Princess Lilibet, the future Queen Elizabeth II, to her parents, George VI and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, on the day of their coronation, 12 May 1937.
The loss of simplicity, naivety and spontaneity is, after all, one of the most significant losses mankind suffered in the twentieth century.