Lets Share Stories Project

Track 4 Queen Mother Telephone Exchange



Credit line: Elizabeth Boniface talking about a call her mother received whilst working at the Haslemere telephone exchange during World War Two.

Transcription:

Interviewee: And then one night my mother says ’The Queen’s on the line!’ So of course everyone listened in and they were arranging a picnic for the princesses in the New Forest or something and the woman she was speaking to said to them ’I think someone’s listening on this’. The Queen, this was the Queen Mother of course, said ’Well, I expect so, they usually do.