Prince Philip the Duke of Edinburgh kneels before Queen Elizabeth II during her Coronation. 27 million people watched the coronation live on TV. It was the first coronation to be on television.

But like many Brits of my generation (I was born the year before the coronation) my life has been bookended by the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, who in 2015 entered the record books as the longest ...

A 1953 Biscuit Tin celebrating the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.Property of Robert Pool Comments are closed for this object What's this? Most of the content on A History of the World is ...

As the Queen's Platinum Jubilee weekend came ... ago in 2002 and in it was a hologram of a 25-year-old Queen Elizabeth II from her coronation day in June 1953. The holographic Queen even waved.

Compared to the 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, King Charles’s was ... the national anthem and was excited to take part in the carriage procession back to Buckingham Palace.

Unlike the previous year, the monarch entered the venue in a carriage with the Queen ... Queen Elizabeth’s memories along with him to the procession by wearing his mother’s coronation medal ...