Queen Elizabeth spoke to lifesavers and researchers from the Royal Lifesaving Society organisation via video call last week. The Royal Life Saving Society works in 30 Commonwealth nations to combat preventable death by drowning, and promote water safety and lifesaving education. It was founded in London in 1891 to combat the hundreds of drowning that was happening all over England at the time. The Queen has been a patron of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution since 1952.