Born in 1947

£1 in 1947 would be worth approximately £45.50 in today's money.

A selection from Wikipedia's '1947 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.

• 23 February – Ealing Studios release the film Hue and Cry, regarded as the first of the Ealing Comedies.
• 4 March – Treaty of Dunkirk (coming into effect 8 September) signed with France providing for mutual assistance in the event of attack.
• 3 April – The private healthcare firm BUPA is founded.
• 9 April – How Does Your Garden Grow? first broadcast on BBC Radio. As Gardeners' Question Time, it will still be running more than seventy-five years later.
• 5 August – Release of Holiday Camp, first of the popular Huggetts Trilogy of comedy films.
• 24 August – First Edinburgh Festival of the Arts opens. On 31 August, the first Edinburgh International Film Festival opens as part of the overall festival; it will become the world's oldest continually running film festival.
• 20 November – Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh: Princess Elizabeth (later Elizabeth II), daughter of George VI, marries The Duke of Edinburgh at Westminster Abbey, London.
• 29 November – The United Nations approves the Partition Plan for Palestine thus ending the British Mandate of Palestine.

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