Princess Elizabeth Shooting Lee Enfields

[villiers]

Doesn´t really look much like Princess Elizabeth. Are you sure it´s not someone else?

[Thunderbox]

Its a well-known photo, and I'm certain that it is not one of the princesses.

[Seaspriter]

I particularly like Her Majesty's spotter in thread #1. It is either the elegance of dress or a big spoof -- can you imagine a spotter wearing a massive fur collar, dressed to the nines, ready to attend a Royal Ballet!?

I must say Pic-1 spotters jacket it a bit over the top for a range day......

Great picture of the Queen's Spotter. Perhaps this is Her Majesty's reaction to a Ghillie suit through the eyes of a Paris fashion studio. I wouldn't mind taking her on a hunting trip -- great camouflage -- perhaps the raccoons and fox would think she was kin.

[Chris7171]

What more can I say.....?

A commercial BSA No1 Mk3 Purchased from Fulton’s in the 70's, Bisley works stamped, bedded in cork with the extra band & has Harry Hardwicks inspection marks (Top Enfield inspector)

Oh and they did tell me that the rifle was an important gun that they had kept for years.

[British Mandarin]

I wasn't entirely sure that was Princess Elizabeth either, but everywhere I've seen the picture people have said it was her. Who is actually in the picture?


@Chris, that is an absolutely magnificent rifle. How well does it shoot?

[Chris7171]

I wasn't entirely sure that was Princess Elizabeth either, but everywhere I've seen the picture people have said it was her. Who is actually in the picture?


@Chris, that is an absolutely magnificent rifle. How well does it shoot?

On the occasion that I take it out it still shoots pretty good (better than me). Come to think about it the last time I used it I won a competition.

[British Mandarin]

What are the sights on it?

[Chris7171]

What are the sights on it?

The Sights are Parker-Hale 5A with Bisley works Stamp also the fore sight is a Parker-Hale, it was sold as a "Queens’s prize rifle" by Fulton’s.

It would be nice to think that the Queen had her mitts on my rifle at some point, perhaps I can sell it for a fortune with that sore of provenance…! Yeh right..

[Mk VII]

The first picture is not the Queen. We've seen enough pictures of her at that age to know what she looked like. And she would not have participated in 'novelty' pictures of this kind.

The second one is the Queen; it was taken on the quarterdeck of Vanguard during the voyage to South Africa for the King's Tour in 1947 (the only one he undertook after the war, as his health declined). .22 No.2's converted from Long rifles, as most of the early .22s were, and the sort of thing the Navy, who didn't have much use for smallarms, tended to retain longer than everybody else.

http://i3.mirror.co.uk/incoming/arti...-1900-2002.jpg

some other shots in the same sequence.

[British Mandarin]

Do we have any idea of who might be in the first picture?