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Queen says King would be ‘delighted’ to see 1950s photograph of great-uncle Lord Mountbatten

Source: PA Wire

The Queen said the King would be “delighted” to see a photograph a well-wisher in Shrewsbury had kept safe since he took it in the 1950s in the hopes of sharing it with the royal family.

Bill Stanley, a former musician with the Roger James Four, said it was a “thrill” to be able to show the photograph he had taken when he met Lord Louis Mountbatten in as she visited Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings, known as the precursor to modern skyscrapers, on Wednesday.

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