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TIL that in 1940, after the German Luftwaffe bombed Buckingham Palace during the Blitz, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother refused to leave the King and evacuate to Canada with her children, saying - "I am almost glad we have been bombed. Now I feel I can look the East End in the face."

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