‘I did love being down in the crowd, it was exciting it was a great atmosphere and everyone was in good spirits.’ As we approach King Charles' Coronation, we spoke to a few people who still remember the Coronation of his mother as if it were yesterday.
The friends decided to take the risk and camped out overnight in Hyde Park – armed with supplies of raisins and nuts, and even a blow-up cushion.
But Shirley’s night was almost ruined when her inflatable cushion burst after the shells from the nuts ended up popping it.People braved the rain and did whatever they could to get a glimpse of the Queen ‘We saw her [The Queen] come through in the carriage and although I don’t think she was waving directly at us I like to think she was. She looked like a fairy-tale princess.’Metro readers have shared their memories of the Queen’s coronation in 1953
Queen Salote III refused to let the bad weather ruin the big day and was a big hit with those watching on The grandmother-of-three was sat with her family at Oddenino’s Imperial Restaurant and looked down as the golden carriage sailed down the road. She said: ‘I remember vividly the Queen of Tonga coming down the Mall with the top off her horse-drawn carriage.‘We had a pretty basic picnic that day, it was just after the war and it wasn’t as posh as what I remember having as a child.
But it wasn’t all fun and games for Sue and her friend, as she said there was a ‘chronic lack of loos’.
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