Nearly 70 years before King Charles III\u0027s coronation on May 6 in London\u0027s Westminster Abbey, he watched as his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, was crowned in the same hallowed setting.
“Don’t miss the Coronation. See it Best on RCA VICTOR,” blared an ad for a 17-inch black-and-white TV selling for $329.50, equal to about $3,700 now.
More than 2,000 journalists and 500 photographers from 92 nations covered the coronation. One photographer was a 23-year-old Jacqueline Bouvier, the soon-to-be fiancee of U.S. senator and future president John F. Kennedy. For an article distributed by the Chicago Tribune News Service, Bouvier asked people outside Buckingham Palace: “Do you think Elizabeth will be England’s last queen?” The article quoted Alma Santos, a housewife from Cardiff, Wales, who said, “O, I couldn’t say.
Though Charles has said he plans a less lavish coronation than his mother’s, he will lead a three-day celebration fit for a king, including a concert with Katy Perry and Lionel Richie. In 1953, England went all out because Elizabeth’s coronation was the first for a queen since Queen Victoria was crowned in 1838. At the time of her coronation, Elizabeth had actually been queen for 16 months since her father, King George VI, died on Feb. 6, 1952.
Then, “the moment the world awaited came when the Archbishop of Canterbury held high above the Queen’s head St. Edward’s Crown with its dazzle of diamonds, its arches aglow with pearls and its bejeweled cross,” the Derby Evening Telegraph reported. The gold crown, which weighs nearly five pounds, was made in 1661 for King Charles II and is a replica of the crown of the 11th-century king Edward the Confessor.
“With the splendour and solemnity of an historic ritual … Elizabeth II was yesterday crowned queen,” the London Daily Telegraph reported. Some American journalists were less reverent. “The British did everything during the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth except sail a battleship into Trafalgar Square at high noon,” AP columnist Hal Boyle wrote. The New York Daily News ran a front-page headline declaring: “Long Live Liz.
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