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10 Facts About Queenie Allen

1.

Queenie Mary Allen, later Queenie Webber, was an English badminton player from the 1930s into 1950s.

2.

Queenie Allen won the women's doubles title at the All England Open Badminton Championships in 1949 with Betty Uber.

3.

Queenie Allen won international competitions in Denmark, Scotland, South Africa, Ireland, and France.

4.

At the 1948 South African Badminton Championships, Allen won in the women's doubles category, with her partner Betty Uber.

5.

Queenie Allen won the women's singles category at the Scottish Open in 1948,1949, and 1950; she won the women's doubles category at the Scottish Open with Betty Uber in 1948,1949,1950,1951, and 1953.

6.

At the 1949 All England Badminton Championships, Allen won in the women's doubles category, with her partner Betty Uber, and finished as a runner-up in the mixed doubles category, with her partner T Wynn Rogers.

7.

At the 1951 All England Badminton Championships, Queenie Allen Webber finished as a runner-up in the women's doubles category, with her partner Mavis Henderson.

8.

Queenie Allen wore a blue skirt and yellow shirt, and I wore a black skirt and red-and-white shirt.

9.

Queenie Allen performed in concert at Wigmore Hall in 1955.

10.

Queenie Allen died at a rest home in Sussex in 2007, aged 95 years.