Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother extremely enthusiastic, and largely dissipated any residual feeling that George and Elizabeth were a lesser substitute for Edward. Elizabeth told Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, "that tour made us", and she returned to Canada frequently both on official tours and privately. During the Second World War, the King and Queen became symbols of the fight against fascism. Shortly after the declaration of war, "The Queen's Book of the Red Cross" was conceived. Fifty authors and artists contributed to the book, which was fronted by Cecil Beaton's portrait of the Queen and was sold in aid of the Red
Elizabeth the Queen (1968 film) before in New York and received poor reviews but insisted the production was faulty rather than the play itself. Charlton Heston agreed to co star. Elizabeth the Queen (1968 film) Elizabeth the Queen is a 1968 TV movie. It is an adaptation of the play "Elizabeth the Queen". In 1964 George Schaefer said he had decided not to do a production of this or another Maxwell Anderson play, "Mary Queen of Scot", because they depended on pageantry, which was hard to do on television. Schaefer changed his mind and Judith Anderson signed to star in a production in May 1967.