The Hampshire Family Historian | Volume 49 No.4 | March 2023

Member’s article

Thomas George Mackenzie Green, 1920

Thomas George Mackenzie Green, 1965

Kings’ and Queen’s Watermen Watching the part played by Royal Watermen in HM The Queen’s funeral service brought back to me memories of the life of my father Thomas George Mackenzie GREEN – always known as George. A particularly poignant stage was when the Crown and other Royal Regalia were placed on the altar. The Crown was carried to the Dean of Windsor by the Royal Bargemaster. My father shown here had been appointed as a Royal Waterman both to HM King George VI and to HM The Queen serving from 1947 until his death in 1974. In that time, he had served as an escort travelling on Royal Carriages which transported the Royal Regalia to the Robing Room for the spectacular Annual State Opening of Parliament. The accompanying

photograph shows him in 1970 on the extreme

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