The Royal Visit 1939

From the Parkwood Archives
The Royal Visit to Canada and USA May 1939
In the custom, Oshawa built McLaughlin Buick, the choice car of the Windsors.

[@here_we_go_again2571]

Genius PR move by both FDR and the British monarchy.

[@Jabberstax]

I love these old news reels. Thanks for sharing.

[@publius9303]

The Queen certainly knew how to charm people.

[@pandaroc1]

Came here after watching “Hyde Park on Hudson” didn’t know Pres. Roosevelt was a player.

[@rdbjrseattle]

9:05 Hyde Park includes picnic with “Hot Dogs and mustard”.

[@brigdrsurendermohansharma3031]

King talks about freedom and peace but freedom for occupied, enslaved countries was a distant dream. However President FDR had drafted Atlantic charter asking Churchill to grant freedom to India just because the US soldiers were fighting in Europe and all over for the cause of freedom and democracy. FDR was one of the greatest US Presidents. In olden days people were simple and so were their kings and Queens, respected and adored, when people had the time to wait and watch their role models. Kings and Queens were special as if they were moving toys to a child. They were respected and they too respected the people. But then the only Kings and Queens who survived were the Kings and Queens of cards , the Kings of Britain, Emperor of Japan, King of Thailand, King of Arabia, Jordan and a few European countries. But democratic figures became Aces and politicians became jokers available in plenty in shelves of lofty houses.

[@here_we_go_again2571]

The British monarchy survived because Edward vii (playboy prince, Queen Victoria's son) made changes and had the diplomatic skills to navigate into the 20th century.

[@davidtracey9094]

The smell of war was in the air...

[@DavidJGillCA]

There is a pronounced lack of pomp and ceremony accorded the royal visitors in the USA in comparison to their immediate preceding tour of Canada. The political background of this tour of Canada and the United States was of the expectation of war and the need to rally the English speaking worl'd's support for Britain.

[@ltf9]

Makes total sense seeing as how the monarch isn't allowed to involve himself in politics and the British PM resigned because he expected appeasement to work months after this trip and the USA stayed neutral for almost 3 years (a few days before the start of 1942). I am sarcastically trying to say that Roosevelt invited the monarch at the risk of alienating the isolationist base in the USA, hence why there was no similar visit on the eve of WW1 which the usa also pointlessly joined. The U.S. ambassador to the court of St. James (Jo Kennedy, JFK's father) believed in appeasing Hitler and recommended this to Roosevelt up to the war, there was no doubt that America wasn't going to join if Christ himself visited the White House. A large population could still remember life in Ireland, and there were many German, Japanese, and Italian immigrants in the USA...it's why the USA's alliance with the UK dissolved right after the war and the U.S. refused to support the Suez business and the UK didn't join the USA in Korea. Add to it that many GI's saw first hand what an arrogant prick Monty was and how miserable British plans like Operation Market Garden were in their scheming, and older generations remembered the needless death caused by the Monarch and his cousins all over Europe playing chess to pass the time, so one can understand why the Marshall plan and Truman doctrine helped all of western Europe except Britain, which felt the economic impacts of two pointless wars for forty years...

[@markharlock6474]

You may think those wars were pointless, but many people who loved their Western civilisation, cultures, way of life, languages etc, did not wish to bow to Nazi ideology or the Japanese emperor...

[@DavidJGillCA]

@@ltf9 That isn't why the US didn't support the UK, French, Israeli Suez gambit or why the UK didn't send forces to Korea.

[@DavidJGillCA]

@@markharlock6474 True, but that's not a particularly good way of explaining why. Ya know...."because of our jingoistic bias."

[@lujanpincha359]

King & Queen ❤❤

[@mymodernworld8606]

awww look how small Queen Elizabeth was😃😊

[@pauleypavillion6088]

Are any of the troops of Canada then alive today?

[@Jklopoppcorn]

they'de have to over a 100 years old, a little older than that actually

[@inesborstel5592]

❤

[@dominiquebeaulieu]

When the queen comes to Québec today she gets tomatoes.

[@johntomlinson6849]

Fake news

[@dominiquebeaulieu]

@@johntomlinson6849 She is boohed

[@pauledwards6723]

Dominique Beaulieu ...pathetic comment.

[@dominiquebeaulieu]

@@pauledwards6723 Just watch us : kzbin.info/www/bejne/o364e3iHeZeJjMU

[@dominiquebeaulieu]

@@pauledwards6723 I was there : kzbin.info/www/bejne/iIq7pmWhhrukj80

[@lindaireland2751]

❤❤

[@immaggiethesenilegoldenret7918]

“I say, do let’s visit our formal colonies”! “Yes, quite. I dare say they’re working things out...” “Rather! Upstarts kept kicking us out....frightfully ghastly, losing them.”🤔🧐🧐🧐”Quite.....bugger that!”

[@wholeNwon]

Former.

[@karldelavigne8134]

Juvenile.

[@franmellor9843]

TRUE though...and yes we do still use the QUEENs ENGLISH

[@dominiquebeaulieu]

Here is Prince Charles : kzbin.info/www/bejne/oHa5l4x8bLl1Y5o

[@jec1ny]

Now the King.

[@dominiquebeaulieu]

@@jec1ny Indeed. 15 years ago I participated to a protest 🪧 against Prince Charles visit in Montréal 😁

[@thr33wisemonks78]

Donald Trumps nowhere to be seen at the Whitehouse

[@DavidJGillCA]

What a dumb thing to say. Is the passage of time something that you just figured out?

[@davidpar2]

+Wise Monks well, considering he was negative 7 years old at the time, no

[@markharlock6474]

He'll be back there in 2024.

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[@dominiquebeaulieu]

When Royals come to Québec today : kzbin.info/www/bejne/o364e3iHeZeJjMU

[@JeffLeChefski]

You are trolling. It's your right in a democratic country to protest.

[@dominiquebeaulieu]

@@JeffLeChefski And I did protest

[@eddiemart4613]

@@dominiquebeaulieu 10 years ago...

[@maku8075]

@@dominiquebeaulieu don't worry the queen of Canada is loved here in France. Wannabe French that colonize the America should shut up.

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[@bridgethackett8112]

Hi English mind your business