When Linda met the queen
As Great Britain celebrates Elizabeth II’s 70th anniversary as Queen of England, Dallas Voice Distribution Manager Linda Depriter remembers when, at 16, she met the queen.
As a teen, Dallas Voice’s circulation manager went from being homeless to working at Buckingham Palace DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writertaffet@dallasvoice.com As Great Britain celebrates the 70th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s accession to the throne this month, Linda Depriter, Dallas Voice’s circulation manager who celebrated her own 75th birthday last week, sat down to talk about the time she met the queen at Buckingham Palace 58 years ago.
Linda’s mother was from the coastal resort town of Bournemouth, England. Her father, who was from Oklahoma, was stationed in the U.K.
at the end of World War II. The two met and married, and he moved his new wife from war-torn Great Britain back to Oklahoma.
