“I shall remember the people I watched the last coronation with, including my parents, grandparents and aunt and uncle, and I’ll be hoping for a bright, sunny day so that I can watch all that pomp and ceremony in full colour” SerinaSandhu1 reports
Come 6 May, Ms Holloway will probably watch the coronation of Charles on television at home, but with little enthusiasm.
Sheila Edwards says the wet and grey weather in her mining village in the Rhondda Valley in South Wales on the day of the Queen’s coronation did nothing to dampen her excitement. With no TV at home, her family went to her aunt’s house to watch, she recalls, adding: “Dressed in raincoats and wellingtons, we hurried past little groups of people standing in the rain, gazing at the television sets that their owners had put on their front room windowsill facing outwards, so that their less fortunate friends and neighbours could share the excitement.
The year before the Queen’s coronation, Agnes Grunwald-Spier remembers feeling “frightened” by the news that King George had died in 1952. By June 1953, there was no fear, just frustration as she tried to pin up cardboard cutouts of the Queen’s coronation procession, including carriages, soldiers and horses, in her home’s bay window.“I remember… my mother having a friend who was going to go and sleep on the pavement in London so she would get a good view… My parents had come from Hungary after the Holocaust… After what they’d been through, they were bemused someone would voluntarily sleep on the pavement overnight.
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