Posted by Roger Wardale on December 24, 2013 at 05:50:19 user RogerW.
In Reply to: Re: Arthur Ransome CBE posted by Mike Dennis on December 24, 2013 at 00:34:22:
The story of Her Majesty buying Swallows and Amazons in 1930 appeared in the letters book, 'Childhood' and 'Master Storyteller'.
The mention of Her Majesty being familiar with AR's work is given as a good quote in Peter Hunt's 'Approaching AR'
It was an article in The Daily Mail Ideal Home Book 1949-50.
'Both Princess Elizabeth and her sister have an inbred love of boats and the sea, and . . . at Windsor Castle have often repeated, at least in imagination, some of the daring exploits of the Swallows and Amazons'.