McCartney, a staunch monarchist
Sunday, September 27th, 2009 at 12:30 pmLondon, Sept 27 (ANI): Sir Paul McCartney was a staunch monarchist, and a prize-winning 300-word essay written by him in 1953 to celebrate the Queen’s coronation proves that.
Unseen in public for 56 years and thought to be his earliest surviving creative effort, the work was written by McCartney when aged 10 and it won him a book token presented by the lord mayor of Liverpool.
The essay, which praises "our lovely young Queen", was written when McCartney was at Joseph Williams junior school in Belle Vale, Liverpool. It was later handed over to the local Speke library for submission, reports The Times.
"I’m not surprised that it was pro-royalist, bearing in mind attitudes of the time and because his father, James, was a royalist," said Kevin Roache, who has just unearthed the essay in Liverpool’s Central Library where he works.
In the write-up, McCartney, whose father was a cotton salesman and mother Mary a midwife, compares the happy scenes expected outside Buckingham Palace to the coronation of William the Conqueror nine.
It also mentions a coronation cup with Elizabeth II on the front and Elizabeth I on the back, and he concludes it by saying: "After all this bother, many people will agree with me that it was well worth it." (ANI)
