We recently discovered royalty lurking at the back of a family photo album. Yes, that's George VI & Queen Elizabeth.

I can just imagine my grandmother asking them to please hold still while she adjusts her camera and takes the picture!

For more details & pictures see my post:

The King's Trip: George VI visits Oba, Ontario

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updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 06 Oct 2016 06:13:32AM

Oooh this is very interesting! I do love my royals <3

Thanks Louise Adelaide!

I love them too so it was quite a pleasant surprise to find them smiling back at me.

I also learned more about the 1939 royal tour of North America.Had notrealized it was the first visit of a reigning monarch to Canada.

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Cool pic! Looks quite new and arty. Great find!

There's a fabulous story, about the Queen Mother

Two canadian men were having an arguement, one said "Well she was born in Scotland, so I saw she is Scottish" and the other said "But she lives in England, so I say she's English". And they argued and argued over it, until she arrived, and when she did, they asked her, and she said

"Gentlemen, I am canadian"

I think it's a fab story :P

What a wonderful story! Thanks for sharing it

One thing that struck me about the pictures is how relaxed and happy they look. Maybe they were just amused by the people in Oba

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Thanks!

The original photos are actually quite small so what you see here is a result of the scanning (which enlarged them) and a bit of playing around to get the images as clear as possible.

Fortunately the royal couple came out quite well as they were in the middle. I like how you can pick out at least three RCMP officers on the right hand side by the shape of their hats )

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