Elizabeth

Reading time: less than a minute | Written by Ben Branch | June 4th 2012

As a guy with solid British heritage I think it only fitting to mention the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee this week, this is a post-WWII photograph of then Princess Elizabeth with her favourite corgi, sitting in what I think is a Rolls-Royce.

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Published by Ben Branch - June 4th 2012

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