Making Waves
Britain's relationship with the sea presented at the re-opened National Maritime Museum.
Next month, on May 11th, the Queen will officially launch the redesigned, newly-presented National Maritime Museum heralding a new era in the Museum’s history and the way in which we consider the sea. The royal re-launch is appropriate as sixty-two years ago, on April 27th, 1937, watched by tens of thousands of spectators on the bridges and embankments of the Thames, the Princess Elizabeth accompanied her parents George VI and Queen Elizabeth on a voyage downriver to Greenwich in the barge of the Commander-in-Chief of the Nore. On his first public appearance since the Abdication crisis, and before an audience of 1,600 people in Neptune Hall, the new king opened the National Maritime Museum.
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