Rukban Nessa Rouf speaks in front of councillors last night (Monday)

A WOMAN whose family came to the UK on a ‘Queen’s vouhcer’ has thanked the late Elizabeth II at a full council meeting.

Rukban Nessa Rouf delivered an emotional message relating to her own family’s arrival in Camden,

She was speaking as Camden Council held a special all-member meeting last night (Monday) in which councillors, aldermen, members of the public and Town Hall staff paid tribute to the Queen.

Here’s what Ms Nessa Rouf said:

“I’m lived in Camden for the last 46 years. I met Georgia [Gould, the council leadser] the other day and she invited me to come and say a few words about the royal family and how I’m connected. My dad came here in the 60s with the Queen’s voucher – it was called the Queens voucher – and he always used to say that he was so proud that he was invited to come to England to work and rebuild Great Britain after the Second World War.

A few years later, I came with my younger siblings, with my Mum and joined my father. I remember when I was little, that was in 1977, when she [the Queen] had the silver jubilee, I was in Argyle Primary School and I remember making the Union Jack by my hand and then the school organised a trip to go and see the Queen in central London.

I remember I was short, and I just kind of slipped, and I came to the main road and I was waving. And I remember her waving back to us. The main thing I saw: she was wearing a crown, and with her white gloves, the Duke of Edinburgh sitting beside her. When I went home, I shared my story to my Dad, and I said ‘I saw the Queen’ and he said: ‘I’m very proud that you saw her because, you know, the Queen has invited me to come to this country, and build a life’ and so, you know, we are very grateful to the Royal family.”