The future Queen, Princess Elizabeth, chose four items of furniture as a wedding present from the Citizens of Portsmouth in 1947 – a satin-wood cupboard, a mirror, a glass chandelier and a sofa.
She wrote a thank you letter:
‘We are both delighted with the wedding present which the citizens of Portsmouth
We send our warm thanks to all those who so generously subscribed to give us this magnificent present, and we should like them to know what a real pleasure it has been to us to receive it from a town which has the closest connections both in history and our own times with the Royal Navy.’
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