Julie Andrews was 13 when she first performed in front of royalty. The star of stage and screen was born into a musical family and started singing and acting professionally in 1947, when she was 12. A year later she appeared in a Royal Variety Performance, where she was heard and applauded by the future Queen Elizabeth II. Read Who Cares? about the struggle for dignity at Woodruff Home for the Aged, “a lively place where old people go to die.” Learn more about the book and its characters, aged 9-90, in NOVELS.
Julie Andrews was 13 when she performed for the future Queen Elizabeth II
Woodruff Home for the Aged, where aging with dignity battles corporate greed
