2-950-962 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Pigeon Post', 20 February 1943, (1947). Princess Elizabeth (future Queen Elizabeth II) and her younger sister Princess Margaret Rose, members of the Buckingham Palace Company of Girl Guides, send a message by carrier pigeon to Lady Baden-Powell on her birthday. 20 February was also the birthday of her husband, the late Lord Baden-Powell, founder of the Scouting movement. From "Princess Elizabeth: The Illustrated Story of Twenty-one Years in the Life of the Heir Presumptive", by Dermot Morrah. [Odhams Press Limited, London, 1947]