First Quebec Conference
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The First Quebec Conference, codenamed Quadrant, was a highly secret military conference held during World War II by the governments of the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. It took place
Mackenzie King, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and the Earl of Athlone at La Citadelle in Quebec City
President Roosevelt, seated next to Princess Alice and Prime Minister King of Canada, greeting British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden
Women's Royal Naval Service officers sightseeing after the conference
Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone was a member of the extended British royal family, as a great-grandson of King George III, the youngest brother of Queen Mary, an uncle of Kings Edward VIII an
First Quebec Conference
…Roosevelt, hosted by the Canadian prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. Conference Mackenzie King, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and the Earl of Athlone at La Citadelle in Quebec City Although Churchill suggested that Mackenzie King be involved in all discussions, Roosevelt vetoed the idea owing to…
Portrait of Athlone, c. 1940
The Duchess of Teck and her family c. 1880; Prince Alexander sits centre with his arm around the Duchess, Princess Mary (later Queen Mary) is seated at far right
Prince Alexander of Teck, 28 June 1910, wearing the insignia of the Royal Victorian Order, and the star and sash of the Order of the Rue Crown of Saxony
The Earl of Athlone (seated right) with (left to right) Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King, US President Roosevelt, and UK Prime Minister Churchill, at La Citadelle, August 1943