Both women in this photograph were 30 years old. One had been Queen of the United Kingdom for four and a half years. The other had less than six years to live.The event was the Royal Command Film Performance of The Battle of the River Plate, a British WWII naval film, at the Empire Theatre in Leicester Square on October 29, 1956. Marilyn Monroe was attending because she was in London filming The Prince and the Showgirl with Laurence Olivier. The Queen was hosting the evening, with the Suez Canal

The World At War 1973(World War II Documentary)Episode 15-Home Fires:Britain(1940-1944) [Full Episo