Queen Elizabeth II – Ingliando

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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On this day, Princess Margaret, the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II, died in her sleep at the age of 71, at King Edward VII’s Hospital in London, having suffered four strokes, the last one just the day before she died. As a young woman, Margaret was one of the world’s most celebrated socialites and it is said that her father, King George VI, referred to Elizabeth as his pride and Margaret as his joy. However, court etiquette at the time would not allow Margaret to marry the love of her life, Peter Townsend, as he was divorced. She eventually married Antony Armstrong-Jones in 1960, but her unruly lifestyle and eventual divorce from Armstrong-Jones meant that her private life was a permanent subject of great speculation by the media and royal watchers.

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