The Queen at War

An hour so evocative of the British during the Blitz, so rich in footage of Elizabeth’s parents, the king and queen, standing in the rubble with bombedout Londoners, that it seems, however often one has caught sight of them, that these scenes are all new, the crowds in them never seen before. ... This documentary, despite the title, finds much of its drama in Elizabeth’s mother and father, who by example embodied unstinting dedication to the war effort.

The script sometimes sounded as if it had been written for children. ... But perhaps that is no bad thing. It would make an excellent homeschool history lesson on the Second World War and the early life of the woman who, now as much as ever, we look to in times of crisis.