Google| Subject | Re: Queen mother (of Britain) has died |
| From | m |
| Date | 2002-03-31 08:26 (2002-03-31 07:26) |
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In article <20020330132506.22422.00000843@mb-fv.aol.com>, nathan2good@aol.com- nospam says...
The Queen Mother lived to the age of 101 which is fantastic.
That means that she would have been born in the year that Queen Victoria died and has seen almost all of the last century and two years of this one.
She would have been a teenager at the start of the first world war. By that stage Tolkien would have been fighting in that war and will have seen almost his entire school class killed.
The Queen Mother will have seen horse drawn transport change to motor vehicles. Likewise she will have seen the same destruction of Englands countryside and woodlands that lead to Tolkien writing The Lord Of The Rings.
I hope I live to the age of at least 100.
M
2002-03-30-
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