Tag: Westminster Abbey

The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

2nd June 1953

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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Royal Wedding of William and Kate

29th April 2011

On this day, at Westminster Abbey in London, Prince William married his longtime girlfriend, Catherine (Kate) Middleton. The televised wedding was viewed by billions of people worldwide and the couple received new titles bestowed by the queen: the duke and duchess of Cambridge. The couple had first met nearly a decade before their wedding, when both attended the Scottish university of St. Andrews. William is one of the most popular members of the royal family, known for his ease and empathy: traits that his mother also possessed. On the death of his grandmother Queen Elizabeth, William inherited the title of Duke of Cornwall from his father, and soon afterwards, as heir to the throne, the traditional title of Prince of Wales.

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Queen Mary Escapes to France

9th December 1688

On this day Mary of Modena, an Italian princess and the wife of King James II escaped from England to France with her son, James Francis Edward Stuart, after prominent Protestants, fearful of a continuing Catholic dynasty, had invited James II’s Protestant nephew and son-in-law, William of Orange, to invade England. In what was later to be known as “The Glorious Revolution”, King James II was overthrown by William who later allowed him to escape to France. William and Mary (James II’s daughter by his first marriage) were jointly crowned in Westminster Abbey on 11th April 1689.

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