Taken by Cecil Beaton, the photograph is described thus: Colour transparency of Queen Elizabeth II (b.1926) on her Coronation day. She is seated facing left and looks towards the camera.

Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation on this day 71 years ago was the most magnificent royal pageant the world had ever witnessed. It brought to the throne a picture of youth, hope, innocence and ...

She made a separate speech on the day of her coronation after the ceremony. Prince Philip was not crowned alongside Queen Elizabeth. And he wasn't officially titled as King Philip but as ...

Let's listen. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: On what must surely be the greatest day of her life, Queen Elizabeth drives to her coronation. AVRIL SHATTUCK: I'm Avril ...

Queen Elizabeth II was formally crowned during a coronation ceremony at London’s Westminster Abbey on June 2, 1953.Elizabeth, only 27 years old at the time, was accompanied by her husband ...

Queen Elizabeth II's coronation took place—72 years ago today. However, according to the monarch herself, not every aspect of the special day was perfect. Known for pranking tourists in Balmoral, ...

King Charles III’s coronation was still a ... “Long Live Queen Elizabeth,” local newspaper headlines blared. “It is a day that, even after 70 years, I still remember as much for the ...

But the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II helped lift the gloom ... For Toussaint and his friends, it was a day of food, games and patriotic songs, just like on Empire Day, the annual holiday ...

This Coronation ... (mournfully appropriate to the day) composed of massed lotus buds and orchids, which had been flown in as a present to the Queen from India. In the icy morning air, these ...

Near the beginning of Queen Elizabeth’s historic 70-year reign, she took part in her coronation on June 2, 1953—72 years ago. Despite all the pomp and ceremony, the Queen found one aspect of her ...