Image of the Month

Churchill with King George VI and Queen Elizabeth inspecting the damage caused by bombs which hit Buckingham Palace at the beginning of the Blitz, in September 1940. The King later described to Churchill how the bombs blew out the windows of the room opposite where they were sitting, made two great craters in the palace quadrangle, bursting a water main, and wrecked the chapel, while the Queen is said to have remarked to a policeman on the day after the bombing that she was glad they'd been bombed, as she could now look the East End in the face.