![]() ![]() Entire families erected makeshift dwellings all along the route of the royal procession and camped in them for days, despite atrocious weather. ![]() Back then, the coronation had engendered an overwhelming sense of national rejuvenation and renewal.īritain was so caught up in coronation fever that London ran out of bread the day before due to a surfeit of early sandwich-making. ![]() Looking back on the last time Britain had a coronation, it's hard not to agree with LP Hartley's maxim: the past is a foreign country.Ĭertainly, when we read of the wide-eyed excitement in the run-up to 2 June 1953, the Britain of 2023 might seem a little flat in contrast. Here the Mail’s Robert Hardman says times may have changed, but we will show the world what Britain does best next Saturday King Charles III will be crowned – 70 years after his mother. Let the bells ring out and the trumpets sound. ![]()
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