February 1953 The Queen talks to First-Lieutenant Jean Stone and Second-Lieutenant Kathleen Stobart, who ran the rest centre in St John’s church hall, Erith, when the River Thames burst its banks and flooded Belvedere in Kent. July 1965 The Queen at the Royal Albert Hall for the inaugural meeting of the Army’s centenary celebrations, with General Frederick Coutts, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Michael Ramsey, and the home secretary, Frank Soskice MP. July 1965 March 1968 Accompanied by General Frederick Coutts, the Queen arrives to open Booth House hostel in Whitechapel – the largest social project funded by the For God’s Sake Care campaign, launched the year before.
March 1968
February 2002
February 1980 October 1997 The Queen thanks Captain Denise Swansbury, Captain Lynn Gibbs, Major Robert McClenahan and Major Margaret Hardy at Buckingham Palace for providing a mobile canteen service for crowds waiting to sign books of condolence after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Also present were Major Linda Cordner and Lieutenant Mark Rose.
February 1980 The Queen talks to one of the residents at the opening of the new Hopetown, a home for 156 women in Whitechapel. The first Hopetown was opened by Queen Mary in 1931.
February 2002 Social Services Secretary Lieut-Colonel Alan Hart welcomes the Queen for the reopening of Booth House resettlement centre in Whitechapel after its £8 million refurbishment. This was the Queen’s first official engagement after the death of her sister, Princess Margaret, three days earlier.
December 1996 Territorial leaders Commissioners Dinsdale and Winifred Pender greet the Queen, accompanied by the lord-lieutenant of Greater London, Field Marshal Lord Bramall, at the opening of Edward Alsop Court, a 112-bed homelessness centre in Westminster. Also pictured is Captain Ian Payne.
December 2020 The Queen, with other members of the royal family, thanks territorial leaders Commissioners Anthony and Gill Cotterill for the Army’s work during the Covid-19 pandemic at an event at Windsor Castle for charity and key workers. Also pictured is Bandmaster Paul Sharman, who led Regent Hall Band in carol playing.
December 2020
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