2-950-950 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Welcome Home', 22 June 1939, (1947). King George VI and Queen Elizabeth with daughters Princess Elizabeth (future Queen Elizabeth II) and Princess Margaret Rose. 'When the Princesses greeted their parents on their return from their tour of the United States and Canada...they were presented with toy pandas by members of the crew of the "Empress of Britain", the ship which had brought the King and Queen back to England'. From "Princess Elizabeth: The Illustrated Story of Twenty-one Years in the Life of the Heir Presumptive", by Dermot Morrah. [Odhams Press Limited, London, 1947]