The Queen backs little girl's bid for Lee Rigby memorial
THE Queen has backed a girl’s bid to have a memorial day in honour of murdered soldier Lee Rigby.
CAMPAIGNER: Millie with her reply from the Queen after her idea for a tribue to Lee [SWNS]
Her Majesty promised to take up 11-year-old Millie Garland’s idea of the annual national tribute with Prime Minister David Cameron.
It raises hopes the nation can come together every year for a day of remembrance to mourn the butchered war hero.
Millie wrote to the Queen after watching a news report on the sentencing of Drummer Rigby’s killers Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale.
And just days later she received a reply from Buckingham Palace thanking Millie for “sharing her concerns”.
The Queen said she would forward Millie’s letter to the PM, who could decide on whether to back the youngster’s calls.
“I was upset that his little boy won’t have a dad any more, and I thought that something should be done so I decided to write to the Queen about it”
Millie Garland
Millie, of Swindon, Wilts, said: “My friends didn’t think I would get a reply and they didn’t believe me until I showed them the letter.
“I do hope that something will be done.
“I was upset that his little boy won’t have a dad any more, and I thought that something should be done so I decided to write to the Queen about it.”
Millie’s mum Lucy, 39, said: “We’re so proud of her, to take something like that to heart and then to take it to the top.”
Dad-of-one Lee, 25, of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, was stabbed to death near his barracks in Woolwich, south east London last summer.
Adebolajo, 29, was jailed for the rest of his life when he was sentenced last month. Adebowale, 22, was caged for a minimum of 45 years.