On September 13, 1940, a German pilot was ordered to destroy Buckingham Palace and kill the king and the queen. If his mission succeeded, it would be an important military triumph for Adolf Hitler. On the same day, flying low over The Mall with a Heinkel HE111, the Nazi Airman threw the SC50 cylindrical bombs on the British symbol. King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth (the later King), were in a small room overlooking the inner courtyard when they were notified that they were coming to an attack and that they had to move to the shelter. Without being in a hurry, the king stopped to ask his wife to help him remove a lash from his eye. At that moment, a bomb exploded 30 meters away, launching a tobacco column. “We all fell instantly in the hallway,” King later wrote in a letter to her mother -in -law, Queen Mary of TEK. ‘Followed a […]
Source: News Beast
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