The Queen reminisced about receiving a special life-saving award 80 years ago during a video call with the Royal Life Saving Society.
Her Majesty was 14 when she earned the accolade of becoming the first young person in the Commonwealth to achieve the Society’s Junior Respiration Award.
The Queen recalled, “I didn’t realize I was the first one — I just did it, and had to work very hard for it! “It was a great achievement and I was very proud to wear the badge on the front of my swimming suit.” The RLSS works in 30 Commonwealth nations to combat preventable death by drowning and deliver life-saving education.
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