Hello.

Welcome back to another exciting History lesson with me, Mrs. Charlrey.

I Can't wait to learn with you as we carry on learning all about Elizabeth II and what her life was like.

Let's get started.

Now, today's lesson is super exciting, and that's because we have been talking about this very important event in Elizabeth's life.

In every single one of our lessons, we've talked about it in our timeline, but now we finally get to learn all about this event.

This event is Elizabeth becoming Queen.

By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to explain how Elizabeth II came to be Queen of England.

Let's find out how that happened.

So as always, we have some key words that we are going to be learning and getting to know in our lesson a bit better.

Let's find out what our keywords are for today's lesson.

Today we have four keywords, four keywords.

Let's do a bit of my turn and your turn to get to know these words a bit better.

Our first key word is rule my turn, rule your turn.

Fantastic.

The second key word is coronation my turn.

Coronation your turn.

Superb.

The third keyword is broadcast my turn.

Broadcast your turn.

Great.

And the fourth and final keyword is accession my turn.

Accession your turn.

Beautiful.

So those are our four key words today.

Our lesson is split into two parts.

The first part will be all about the final days of the king.

I'm gonna find out what happened to the king and what his last days were like.

The second part will be about when Elizabeth becomes queen.

Let's get started with our first part.

We have our timeline here.

As always, we know that Elizabeth was born in 1926.

She was a princess for quite some time before becoming Queen in 1952.

She ruled as a queen for a very long time before dying in 2022.

Today we'll be focusing on 1952 when Elizabeth became Queen.

Finally, we get to learn about this really important event, a moment in her life that we've been looking at in our timeline.

Let's find out how it all started, how this all happened.

So in 1951, King George VI lived in Buckingham Palace and Elizabeth lived in Malta with her family.

So do you remember in our last lesson, we learned about Buckingham Palace in London, the grand palace where the royal family lived? We learned that Elizabeth lived in Malta with her family.

So she lived in a smaller white island, but the king and queen, they lived in Buckingham Palace in London.

This painting shows the royal family.

Look really carefully you can see the King.

I can see Elizabeth, I can see Philip.

Who's that? Oh, who's that toddler? That's Charles and holding Charles behind him is his grandmother.

That's the queen.

In 1951, Elizabeth's father, King George VI became very sick and needed an operation.

Who do you think is sitting next to King George VI? Who's that boy next to the King? Is King George VI, sitting next to Charles? That's Charles there.

And this photograph was taken just after the king had his operation in 1951.

So this photograph shows us what they looked like in 1951 and how old they were.

Elizabeth and her family returned from Malta back to England to be with the king in 1951.

This photograph is of the royal family.

We just see King George VI standing at the back there.

Who else can you see? I can see the Queen Mother.

So that's the mother of King George VI.

Who else do we have in this photograph? Can you recognise anybody in this photograph? We have Philip.

That's Prince Philip at the back over there.

He's standing at the back.

Who else do we have? We also have the Queen.

So that's King George's wife, the Queen.

We have Charles who we saw in another photograph before.

Elizabeth of course, Elizabeth's in the middle.

And who is she holding in her arms? That is a baby.

Who is that baby? It is Anne, so this is a photograph of the royal family around the time that Elizabeth returned from Malta.

Now King George VI ruled England.

Ruled, that's one of our key words for today.

I wonder what that means.

Do you know what that word means? Ruled or rule is when someone controls and tells others what to do.

Elizabeth, with the help of her husband, Philip started to learn about how to rule when her father became sick.

This was because if he died, she would soon become queen.

So Elizabeth and her husband, Philip, had to learn how to rule so that they would know what to do if something happened to her father.

Because if something happened to her father, if her father, the king died, that she would become queen.

So they had to practise and get to know how to rule.

This photograph shows Elizabeth with Philip on royal duties in America.

So they had to do a lot of things that the king couldn't do because he was sick.

They had go and do things that the king would normally do.

So Elizabeth was practising how to become queen one day.

The king was supposed to go to America, but he was not well enough, and so Elizabeth went instead to represent the royal family.

Visiting other countries is an important royal duty.

So it's something that the royal family used to do.

If you remember some of our past lessons, we learned about how Elizabeth's parents went to Australia when she was still a baby.

So visiting other countries is a very important thing of the royal family have to do.

This photograph shows Elizabeth in America.

So let's have a check for understanding.

Why did Elizabeth return from Malta? Why did she come back from Malta? Was it because a, to look after her children, b, to rule England or c, to spend time with her father and learn how to rule.

Pause the video and have think about why Elizabeth returned from Malta? Elizabeth returned from Malta to spend time with her father and learn how to rule.

Because remember, her father, the king became quite sick.

So she came to learn and practise how to rule.

One year later, in 1952, Elizabeth went to Kenya in Africa.

King George VI dropped her and Philip off at the airport and said goodbye.

This photograph shows Philip and Elizabeth in Kenya.

Kenya's a country far, far away in Africa.

It was an important royal visit as Kenya was part of the British empire.

So Kenya was a country that was still being ruled by the British empire.

Whilst she was in Kenya, she got the very sad news that her father had died.

So Elizabeth was a very sad news that her father had died, and the last time she said goodbye to him was when she was at the airport.

So she wasn't there when he died.

This photograph is of Elizabeth at her father's funeral.

That happened later on when she came back.

She was in Kenya when she got the sad news that her father had died.

How do you think Elizabeth felt when she got the news? How do you think she felt? I think she felt really sad to hear that her father had died and the last time she saw him was at the airport.

You can see everyone in this photograph at the funeral looking very, very sad.

After King George VI died, what do you think happened next? Elizabeth became the Queen of England because she was the heir to the throne.

And remember, we learned the word heir means the person who becomes the next queen.

Elizabeth was the next heir to the throne.

So after her father died, she became the Queen of England.

Photograph shows Elizabeth as queen.

But remember, Elizabeth wasn't just the Queen of England.

She was the queen of the United Kingdom.

So that's Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, and England.

She became the queen of the United Kingdom.

Right, we've learned quite a bit there, haven't we? About Elizabeth's father and how he died.

Let's do an activity.

I'd like you to turn to your partner and explain what happened after Elizabeth returned from Malta in 1951.

You can use the words at the bottom to help you.

So the words to help you are Phillip, rule, ill, Kenya and queen.

Pause the video, turn to your partner and explain what happened after Elizabeth returned from Malta in 1951.

Welcome back.

How did you get on with that activity? Let's do this together.

Let's see what you might have said to your partner.

Perhaps you said, "Because Elizabeth's father was ill, she learned how to rule with Philip's help." Or maybe you said, "Later when Elizabeth was in Kenya, she got the news that her father had died.

This meant she would now become queen as she was heir to the throne." So maybe you said one of these things when you were talking to your partner.

Well done for having a go.

Let's move on, the second and last part of our lesson.

We're halfway through our learning today.

Let's keep going.

Our next part will be about Elizabeth becoming queen.

So let's find out about her accession and her becoming queen.

One of our key words for today is accession.

Let's find out what that means.

The time when someone moves from being an heir to becoming a king or queen is called an accession.

So that time is called an accession.

Elizabeth's accession happened when her father had died.

So the time between her father dying and her becoming crowned is called her accession.

This picture is of Elizabeth at her coronation when she became the queen.

To officially become queen, Elizabeth had to have a coronation.

Another one keyword was coronation.

A coronation is when the king or queen is given a crown at a grand ceremony.

They also have to promise to be a good ruler.

This photograph shows Elizabeth at her coronation in 1953.

What can you see happening in this photograph? Do you see Elizabeth sitting in the middle with lots of people surrounding her, a lot of people around her? You see someone in front of her? Did you see a cross in the background? Because of coronation happens at her church.

Wow.

It looks like a very big and grand event.

The night before the coronation, Elizabeth made a radio broadcast.

Do you remember another time that Elizabeth made a radio broadcast? Another time when Elizabeth spoke on the radio? Yes.

That was during the second World War.

Elizabeth made her first radio broadcast during the Second World War, where she spoke to all the children who had been evacuated.

For the night before the coronation, Elizabeth made a very special radio broadcast.

A broadcast is a speech on the radio or television.

But this speech that she did was on the radio.

In her radio broadcast, Elizabeth pledged her devotion to her people.

So she promised her devotion to her people.

She promised that she'd be a good ruler and she would do everything for them.

This photograph shows Elizabeth making a radio broadcast.

You can see her sitting with a microphone in front of her and also a script in her hands.

She's getting ready to give a speech.

Now, Elizabeth's coronation was the first ever to be broadcast on both radio and television.

She wanted people across Britain and the British Empire to feel like they were a part of the special ceremony.

She wanted everybody to be involved because some people went to see the coronation, but some people couldn't make it because not everyone was in London.

So she wanted everybody across Britain and the British Empire and other countries to see the coronation and to feel like they were there and part of the special ceremony.

This photograph shows Elizabeth at her coronation.

She has a crown on.

She looks beautiful with a very special dress, a special cape.

And she's holding some very important objects in her hand that we're gonna be learning about in our next lesson.

You can see this photograph is in colour.

So as time is going on, as Elizabeth is getting older, technology and things are changing.

So where there were only black and white photographs when she was younger.

As she's growing older, the photographs are becoming in colour.

Let's have a check for understanding, true or false? Elizabeth made a radio broadcast the night before her coronation.

Is that true or false? Pause the video and have a think.

Elizabeth made a radio broadcast the night before her coronation.

That statement is true.

It's true.

She did make a radio broadcast the night before coronation.

Let's do the second part of our check for understanding.

Which one is true? Is it a, in the broadcast, Elizabeth was given the crown or b, in the broadcast, Elizabeth pledged her devotion to her people.

She promised to be a good ruler.

Pause the video and have a think.

In the broadcast, Elizabeth pledged her devotion to her people.

That is true.

That is what she said during her radio broadcast.

Wow.

We've come to our final activity of our lesson today.

I'd like you to order these events leading up to Elizabeth accession.

So which came first and which came next after that, and which came last? These are the events: Elizabeth learn how to rule, Elizabeth made a radio broadcast the night before her coronation, King George VI fell ill and Elizabeth returned from Malta, or Elizabeth went to Kenya and King George VI died.

Can you order these events? Pause the video and have a go.

I'll be waiting right here for you.

Welcome back.

How did you get on with that task? But let's find out together.

Let's order these events leading up to Elizabeth's accession together.

So the first thing that happened was King George VI fell ill, and Elizabeth returned from Malta.

So he felt quite sick, her father, and she returned from Malta where she'd been living because Philip was stationed there.

She came back to England.

The next thing to happen was that Elizabeth learnt how to rule.

You remember, she went on a very special trip to America, and Philip helped her learn how to rule.

She had to go on lots of special visits abroad to different countries because that's what the royal family would do.

It's usually what the king would've done.

But because he was sick, he couldn't do it.

So Elizabeth had to do it.

That's an example of how she learned how to rule.

What happened next? I wonder.

Ah, Elizabeth went to Kenya and King George VI died.

So we learned about how Elizabeth went to a special visit in Kenya, which was still a part of the British Empire.

And whilst she was there in Kenya, a country in Africa, she got the very sad news that her father, King Georgia VI had died.

What do you think happened after this? What happened after he died? This is right.

Elizabeth made a radio broadcast the night before her coronation.

So these are four very important events that happened leading up to Elizabeth accession.

Well done for having a go at the activity.

You did really well.

Wow, and just like that, we've come to the end of our lesson.

You have done so well paying attention throughout the lesson, completing all the check for understandings, and doing the tasks too.

It's been so exciting learning with you.

Let's summarise what we've learned today.

We learned that in 1951, king George VI's health began to fail, and Elizabeth and her family returned to England.

Where did Elizabeth and her family lived before they returned to England? That's right.

They lived in Malta, but they returned to England in 1951.

Elizabeth, with Philip's help began to support her father and learned what it would be like to rule.

She did lots of things to practise what it would be like to rule.

She did things like going with special visits and meeting special people.

These are really important things that kings and queens do.

But because her father was sick, she started practising and learning how to rule.

In 1952, Elizabeth was visiting Kenya, part of the British Empire.

She found out there that her father had died and she was now queen.

So when she was in Kenya, she got the very sad news that her father had died.

The night before her coronation, Elizabeth made a radio broadcast pledging her devotion to her people.

So she spoke to the people through the radio and told them all that she would be a good ruler.

She promised to be a good ruler.

Elizabeth's coronation, which is a really special event where a king or queen is crowned and they officially become the king or queen.

Well, Elizabeth's coronation was the first ever to be broadcast on both radio and television.

This time in her life is called her accession to the throne.

So we have learned today all about Elizabeth's accession to the throne.

It has been wonderful learning with you today.

We've learned lots of new things, but we've now come to the end of our lesson.

I'm super excited to find out what we'll learn in our next lesson.

I'll see you then.

Goodbye for now.