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The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on June the second 1953 was the greatest spectacle ever staged in Britain. Three million people lined the streets in London. For the first time, the one thousan...d year old ceremony was televised live, opening up the most privileged of royal events. Twenty million people crowded around tiny TV sets to watch their queen being crowned. Up and down the country seventeen million people clubbed together to hold coronation parties. In the 'austerity Britain' of 1953, the Coronation was designed to be the most sumptuous ever and to mark the birth of a new Elizabethan age. Months of meticulous planning went in to ensuring that in front of a watching world, nothing would go wrong. Told by the people who watched, shaped and recorded it, this Timewatch goes back stage to celebrate 'The People's Coronation'.
The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on June the second 1953 was the greatest spectacle ever staged in Britain. Three million people lined the streets in London. For the first time, the one thousan...d year old ceremony was televised live, opening up the most privileged of royal events. Twenty million people crowded around tiny TV sets to watch their queen being crowned. Up and down the country seventeen million people clubbed together to hold coronation parties. In the 'austerity Britain' of 1953, the Coronation was designed to be the most sumptuous ever and to mark the birth of a new Elizabethan age. Months of meticulous planning went in to ensuring that in front of a watching world, nothing would go wrong. Told by the people who watched, shaped and recorded it, this Timewatch goes back stage to celebrate 'The People's Coronation'.
| Series: | Timewatch |
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| First transmission date: | 18-05-2007 |
| Published: | 2007 |
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| Duration: | 00:48:03 |
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| Producer: | James Hayes |
| Contributors: | Peter Dimmock; Philip Duncombe; Judith Hill; Merlin Holland; Ladt Rayne; Lady Glenconner; Lord Wallace of Saltair; Ann Perrett; Michael Praed; Sandra Reekie; David Smiley; Don Steele; John Taylor; Hugo Vickers; Fred Wilkinson; Joan Wilson |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | BBC Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/timewatch/index.shtml OU Website: http://www.open2.net/timewatch/index.html |
| Subject terms: | Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926 -Coronation |
| Production number: | LSGB864F |
| Videofinder number: | 7444 |
| Available to public: | no |
