article_snippet.sent: It was a real-life fairytale –
article_snippet.sent: the moment, 70 years ago, when two carefully guarded princesses were let loose to join the jubilant crowds in London celebrating the end of the Second World War in Europe.
article_snippet.sent: Now the adventure has been re-created in a new film, showing Princess Elizabeth and Margaret as Princess Elizabeth and Margaret wander incognito through the city streets.
article_snippet.sent: And among the most curious viewers of A Royal Night Out, released next month to coincide with the anniversary of VE Day on May 8, 1945, will be a woman who knows better than anyone what really happened on that extraordinary night.
article_snippet.sent: Because a young Princess Elizabeth was there.
article_snippet.sent: Neither of them had ever done anything remotely similar, being let loose in a crowd like that to walk all the way from Buckingham Palace through to Trafalgar Square.
article_snippet.sent: [the Queen Mother] to let the girls go out into the night, with all those myriad of people around the girls.
article_snippet.sent: Apparently, Princess Princess Margaret escapes on the top deck of a bus.
article_snippet.sent: One of the true scenes in the film is of the Royal party dancing the conga through the Ritz.
article_snippet.sent: The smart old ladies having drinks were gobsmacked,’ says Mrs Rhodes, although it actually happened on VJ night, August 15 – when Britain celebrated Japan’s surrender.
article_snippet.sent: the Royal party returned to the Palace after midnight.
highlights_snippet.sent: A Right Royal Night out .