b'4 Partner News Winter 2022IET updatesRemembering ourPatron, HM The QueenApril 1926September 2022 By Anne Locker MCLIP, Library and Archives ManagerThe Council prepared a Loyal Addressthe Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and for the coronation, engrossed on vellumLord Mountbatten attended a reception at and illuminated and it was put on displaythe Science Museum for the newly formed in the library before being presented toCouncil of Engineering Institutions, now the the Queen. The address emphasised HerEngineering Council.Majestys connection to engineering:In 1971, she attended a conversazione at The members of this Institution, whichthe Royal Festival Hall to celebrate the IEEs exists to promote the advancement ofcentenary. The Queen was also Patron of electrical science and engineering and theirthe Institution of Mechanical Engineers, applications, are much encouraged by thethe Institution of Civil Engineers, the Royal stimulating interest which Your Majesty soAeronautical Society, the Royal Society consistently shows in the means by whichand many other organisations devoted to science can be applied to alleviate thescience and technology.Queen Elizabeth II became Patron of theconditions under which mankind must live, IET in 1952. Her involvement with the worldas exemplified in the industries and servicesIf you have attended a formal dinner at IET of engineering, however, went beyond thisof our country, as well as in the homes ofLondon: Savoy Place, you may remember a one official role. She was interested in theyour people. toast to The Queen, the Duke of Lancaster.contributions of engineering and technology to the modern world, from her voluntaryThis interest in science and engineeringThis toast is traditionally used in the county work in the Second World War to the Queenbegan early. During the Second Worldof Lancashire, and its also used at Savoy Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, launched inWar, the young Princess Elizabeth joinedPlace because the freehold is owned by 2012. the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) andthe Duchy of Lancaster, and that title is trained as a driver and mechanic. After theone attached to the Crown. Following the The first royal Patron of the Institutionwar, her grandmother, Queen Mary, wasaccession to the throne of King Charles III, was King George V. The then Institution ofkeen that she learned more about the UKsthe new toast will be to The King, the Duke Electrical Engineers petitioned His Majesty inengineering and manufacturing industry andof Lancaster.1921, and his patronage was granted at thearranged a series of visits. Accompanied same time as the first Royal Charter. In 1936,by Queen Mary and Caroline Haslett (also Edward VIII consented to become Patron,a member of the IEE), Princess Elizabeth and this was continued by George VI whenvisited a hosiery factory, Battersea PowerThe IET joins the global engineering Edward VIII abdicated. Station, the GEC Research Laboratories andcommunity in remembering the life Johnson and Phillips, electrical engineersof Queen Elizabeth II and her loyal On Elizabeth IIs accession to the throne inand cable makers. service to engineering over the past 1952, the Council agreed to send a petition70 years.praying that Her Majesty would graciouslyDuring her time as Patron, the Queen assent to be Patron of the Institution.attended several historic events. In 1965,'