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WASHINGTON (AP) - Queen Elizabeth II, once known in the British military as Second Subaltern Elizabeth Windsor, was to honor American soldiers with a visit Tuesday to the National World War II Memorial.
After a day of pomp Monday, capped by a white-tie state dinner hosted by President Bush, the British monarch and her husband, Prince Philip, were to join first lady Laura Bush in a tour of Children's National Medical Center. The visitors also were to visit NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
It will be the queen's first visit to the war memorial, which was dedicated in 2004. The queen, a teenage princess during World War II, won permission in 1945 from her father, King George VI, to join the war effort as a driver in the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service, the women's branch of the British Army. She became No. 230873 Second Subaltern Elizabeth Windsor.
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