ОБРАЩЕНИЕ ПРИНЦЕССЫ ЕЛИЗАВЕТЫ 13-го октября 1940 г.
Принцессы Елизавета и Маргарет, 13 октября 1940 г.
Свою первую речь королева Елизавета II произнесла, когда ей было 14 лет, и она была ещё принцессой Елизаветой. Это было обращение к детям, которых эвакуировали из страны в 1940 году, чтобы уберечь от опасностей войны.
В сентябре 1940 года начались авианалёты люфтваффе на Англию, в первую очередь на Лондон. Основной удар пришелся на Ист-Энд, где были расположены заводы и лондонские доки, но пострадали и жилые кварталы, и Букингемский дворец, дом королевской семьи. Королева-мать даже воскликнула: «Слава Богу, теперь я ничем не отличаюсь от своих подданных».
Обращение по радио принцессы Елизаветы в популярной радиопередаче Детский час к эвакуированным детям и детям всей Британской империи оказалось удачным пиаровским ходом.
Принцесса Маргарет
Елизавета выразила сочувствие детям, оказавшимся вдали от догма, заверила их, что о них помнят, сказала, что после окончания войны именно им, теперешним детям, нужно будет выстроить более счастливый мир.
Принцесса Елизавета
Речь принцессы Елизаветы отличается чёткостью и ясностью,
её можно использовать изучающим английский язык для совершенствования собственных произносительных навыков.
Обратите внимание на произнесения Елизаветой слова often. Оно может произноситься и [ офн] и [`офтэн], если записать транскрипцию русскими буквами. Какой вариант произнесения мы слышим в речи? Напишите в комментариях.
often ['ɔf(t)(ə)n] -
часто, много раз
This is the BBC Home Service. Hello, children, everywhere. This is one of the most important days in the history of Children's Hour.
Some time ago we were honored by the visit to the studio of the King and Queen with Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret during the broadcast of a Toytown program. Today Princess Elizabeth is herself to take part in the Children's Hour and speak to the children of the Empire at home and overseas. Listeners in the United States of America will also hear this broadcast.
Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth.
In wishing you all 'good evening' I feel that I am speaking to friends and companions who have shared with my sister and myself many a happy Children's Hour.
Thousands of you in this country have had to leave your homes and be separated from your fathers and mothers. My sister Margaret Rose and I feel so much for you as we know from experience what it means to be away from those we love most of all.
To you, living in new surroundings, we send a message of true sympathy and at the same time we would like to thank the kind people who have welcomed you to their homes in the country.
All of us children who are still at home think continually of our friends and relations who have gone overseas - who have travelled thousands of miles to find a wartime home and a kindly welcome in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States of America.
My sister and I feel we know quite a lot about these countries. Our father and mother have so often talked to us of their visits to different parts of the world. So it is not difficult for us to picture the sort of life you are all leading, and to think of all the new sights you must be seeing, and the adventures you must be having.
But I am sure that you, too, are often thinking of the Old Country. I know you won't forget us; it is just because we are not forgetting you that I want, on behalf of all the children at home, to send you our love and best wishes - to you and to your kind hosts as well.
Before I finish I can truthfully say to you all that we children at home are full of cheerfulness and courage. We are trying to do all we can to help our gallant sailors, soldiers and airmen, and we are trying, too, to bear our own share of the danger and sadness of war.
We know, everyone of us, that in the end all will be well; for God will care for us and give us victory and peace. And when peace comes, remember it will be for us, the children of today, to make the world of tomorrow a better and happier place.
My sister is by my side and we are both going to say goodnight to you.
Come on, Margaret.
Goodnight, children.
Goodnight, and good luck to you all.
And if I may be allowed, I would like to say what is in the minds of all the children listening:
Thank You Princess Elizabeth very much for broadcasting in the Toytown hour.