Paul McCartney was a winner even at an early age. His essay placed first in the under age 11 category and won him a gift certificate for books. McCartney wrote favorably about the Queen in his essay saying that the “present day royalty rules with affection rather than force”. All you need is love indeed. He also refers to her as “our lovely young queen”. Eventually, the Queen would return the favor by knighting Sir Paul McCartney. (When you graduate, you get a graduation cap. When you’re knighted do they give you a knight cap?)

The essay was discovered by author Kevin Roach in therecords at Liverpool’s Central Library where he works. He was researching his book on the McCartney family at the time. Roach commented how advanced the young McCartney’s handwriting was for a ten year old. Perhaps he really did have aspirations to wanna be a Paperback Writer. Roach told the Sun Newspaper that it looks more like the hand writing of a fourteen or fifteen year old. He comments that, “I’m not surprised that it was pro-royalist, bearing in mind attitudes of the time and because his father, James, was a royalist”

The 300 word essay, which was probably unseen by the public in over 50 years, are sure to be one of the earliest pieces of evidence of McCartney’s creative mind. Paul’s brother Mike recalls how nervous his brother was when receiving his book certificate from the mayor.

McCartney has a little spelling error when he writes “souveniers for any tourists who come to see this marvelous spectacle.” His comment is ironic considering the amount of Beatles souvenirs that would be available a decade later. And his teacher corrected his overuse of the word “But” to start two sentences. But hey, no creative piece is without it’s flaws. Especially one created by a ten year old. I’m lucky I could finger paint at that age.

Yet-to-be-Sir Paul finishes off his essay about the Queens Coronation nicely by saying “After all this bother, many people will agree with me that it was well worth it.” Yes Paul, I agree, after all the bother it was well worth it.

- Beatles Geek Pete
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