This Coronation, the older generation of the young Queen’s subjects say contentedly, was the last they ever expect to see. It was probably the most superb and certainly the most moving one that ...

The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, broadcast live on 2 June 1953, was the event that did more than any other to make television a mainstream medium.

Even the memorial to Queen Victoria, undoubtedly the most commemorated woman in British history, is relatively modest in ...