The voiceover described them as “the most charming and natural pictures ever taken of our Royal Family”: a husband and wife outdoors with their children feeding the ducks, the children unselfconscious, playing ball games, running, laughing, broad open spaces all around them. Sound familiar?
The film in question was made in 1937. Husband and wife were the new King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, their children 11-year-old Princess Elizabeth, afterwards Elizabeth II, and her sister Margaret Rose. The film was the work of Pathé Gazette, who captioned it “homely pictures”.
