... clever IT WAS TELEVISION'S second Coronation. On May 12,1937, barely six months after the BBC launched its new service to a largely unheeding |jji nation, its cameras—all three of them —had relayed the progress of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth as they ...

... Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park. Together with her parents— King George VI and Queen Elizabethand her sister Margaret, she enjoyed many tranquil holidays there. Queen Elizabeth’s Coronation, in June 1953, also took place in Westminster Abbey, with the ...

... Japanese who made Britain their home. 1937: Prince and Princess Chichibu visit Britain, representing the Emperor at the coronation of George VI. Over 600 members of the community assemble to welcome the couple at a garden party at the Hurlingham Club in London ...