Lady Grenfell-Baines was in her kitchen in Preston when the phone rang and a woman introduced herself as Esther Rantzen.
“All I said to her,” she recalled 36 years later, “was ‘yes, and this is the Queen of England’. I thought it was somebody making fun.”
However, it was the TV presenter, who explained that she wanted Grenfell-Baines to attend a special recording of her show, That’s Life!.
Rantzen’s team had acquired a scrapbook detailing how one man had rescued 669 children from the Nazis. Sir Nicholas Winton had brought the young, mostly Jewish, refugees from German-occupied Czechoslovakia to the UK in 1939 on the Kindertransport.
Grenfell-Baines, then Milena Fleischmann, fled the Nazis at the age of nine with her younger sister, Eva, three. Unlike
