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The Royal Visit to Guernsey, 1945

Mrs Irene Gosset interviewed by John Gaisford and Rosie Mere
Transcribed and edited by John David from audio and video recordings

Another thing though I remember so well, just after we were liberated, the King and Queen coming. He looked so ill, so, so ill, and they drove all round the Island. I was at Galaad. We walked the children from Grandes Rocques to l’Islet, if that means anything to you, and we sat on the green bank opposite the British Legion Hall, that’s there now, and we must have got Union jacks from somewhere, and those children walked all the way, and one little boy turned up on his tricycle. The queen, she was in beige, and it looked to me as if the King had heavy make-up on, now whether that would have been because he was so ill, I don’t know, but — oh yes, that is one of the moments

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