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Article: Nurses kept in step with royal fashions; NOSTALGIA: King and queen's visit a respite from war for Beti and hospital colleagues.(News)

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Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
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April 28, 2006
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BETI HOWE remembers a royal occasion at Coventry and BWarwickshire Hospital when nurses were interested in the Queen's fashion.

It was during a visit by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1941, when a group of nurses lined up to meet the Royal guest.

Beti - who is on the Queen's left in the the glasses in the picture above - and her colleagues can be seen checking the sort of stocking worn by the royal visitor.

Beti, nee Price and formerly Poynton, said: "I was 18 when the war broke out and I moved to Coventry to be closer to my aunt.

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