On this day, in Westminster Abbey, London, the coronation of Elizabeth II took place. The one-day ceremony took fourteen months of preparation and was the first British coronation to be fully televised. Twenty-seven million people across Britain watched the event live on the BBC Television Service, many having bought or rented television sets specifically for that purpose. In Europe, thanks to new relay links, this was the first live broadcast of an event taking place in the United Kingdom. The coronation was broadcast in France, Belgium, West Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands, marking the birth of Eurovision. Film recordings of the ceremony were flown the same day to Canada, America and Australia. The worldwide television audience for the coronation was estimated to be 277 million.
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