Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

Oh, dear, such a mess. King George and Elizabeth view post-raid debris, Buckingham Palace, September 1940 (Friday the 13, but who’s counting?)

Queen flees London as the plague descends

I get it; she’s an old, frail lady and this bug especially afflicts the elderly, but her parents stuck around during the Battle of Britain to encourage their subjects and to show unity with the people, a duty that I’d have thought came with the job.

Where’s a Billingsgate fishmonger to go when the flu comes down his street? No alternative, second castle for him, certainly.