Peggy Potter, 88 years young, loves to write poetry and was asked by Harewood Day Centre to compose a poem for the centre's jubilee display.
Here is what she wrote:
God bless our Queen Elizabeth
We say her name with pride
There is no one like her
And her influence is wide
We admire her for her steadfastness
And we hope and pray
That the window of change will blow
All her cares away
May she keep looking to the future
Surrounded by the young
And instill in them her wisdom
For all the years to come.
Peggy wrote the poem out beautifully, thanks to a calligraphy course she undertook at Harewood.
She said she loved writing poetry: 'If I get up early in the morning, my mind is going through the words and I just have to write them down.
'My grandfather was a journalist on the Western Morning News in Plymouth before the last war, so I think I must get it from him.'
Peggy said she admired the Queen above all other members of the Royal Family — although she said she did not remember much about the Coronation.
'My husband died in 1950 and it was a bit of a black hole for me — I was fighting for an existence then with three children to bring up.
'I only had about £2 or £3 a week, so they just had to go without, though it didn't seem to hurt them,' said Peggy, who has lived in the same house in Tavistock since 1936, when the rent was just nine shillings a week!
She said: 'The Coronation didn't affect me much. She was a young girl and I think we were all very thrilled but in those days we didn't get the news like we do now.
'We only had impressions, more or less, from the news reels in the cinema — we didn't have TV or radio really.'