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correct
the historical record by demonstrating the importance
of the king and queen's 1939 visit in healing British-American
relations at a perilous time (FDR called it "a
beginning of the coming together of the two English-speaking
races, which would continue after the war.")
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cover the entire 1939
state visit of King
George VI and Queen
Elizabeth to Washington and New York and
show how the 1939 royal visit to the U.S. was the symbolic
end of the American revolution
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place the king and queen's
friendship with the Roosevelts and their historic 1939
visit in the context of the British propaganda campaign
to win isolationist America to Britain's side before
and during World War II. America would gradually offer
material aid and later troops during the war.
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show how the German sympathies of the Duke of Windsor
and Ambassador Joseph Kennedy threatened to sabotage
the Roosevelts, the royal family and the Anglo-American
alliance
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compare the two intriguing, but radically different
marriages of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth and
of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt
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detail Eleanor's intimate relationships with Lorena
Hickok, Joe Lash, and David Gurewitsch and Franklin's
with Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, Laura Delano, Daisy Suckley,
Missy LeHand, and Crown Princess Märtha of Norway.
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