Queen Elizabeth's husband, Prince Philip, argued that televising the 1953 coronation would help modernize the monarchy. More than 32 million Americans tuned in.
since her father, King George VI, died on Feb. 6, 1952.
Then, “the moment the world awaited came when the Archbishop of Canterbury held high above the Queen’s head St. Edward’s Crown with its dazzle of diamonds, its arches aglow with pearls and its bejeweled cross,” the Derby Evening Telegraph reported. The, which weighs nearly five pounds, was made in 1661 for King Charles II and is a replica of the crown of the 11th-century king Edward the Confessor.
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