'Pigeon Post', 20 February 1943, (1947). Princess Elizabeth (future Queen Elizabeth II) and her younger sister Princess Margaret Rose, members of the Buckingham Palace Company of Girl Guides, send a message by carrier pigeon to Lady Baden-Powell on her birthday. 20 February was also the birthday of her husband, the late Lord Baden-Powell, founder of the Scouting movement. From "Princess Elizabeth: The Illustrated Story of Twenty-one Years in the Life of the Heir Presumptive", by Dermot Morrah. [Odhams Press Limited, London, 1947]

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