A week of marmalade sandwiches, street parties, Diana Ross, and Prince Charles paying an emotional tribute to ‘Mummy’. For once it didn’t matter that England lost a football match. Throughout the UK, the people came together as one to laud what’s never happened before and may never happen again: a British monarch ruling for 70 years. Pomp and ceremony are what we do best. From Trooping the Colour to the crowds lining the Mall, and the spectacular red, white and blue Red Arrows display - it made us all, from whatever background or ethnicity, proud to be British. I was 5 when Princess Elizabeth was crowned in 1953. Every child back then received a coronation mug, and many were the street parties where sandwiches, jelly and tea were in abundance. I don’t know how the amazing photo below was done, but what an iconic image it is. It seems to say that, despite all the hurdles and difficulties over the years, you finally made it. Oh how I wish that I, too, after 70 years had an opportunity to say to my younger self “don’t worry; it’ll be all right in the end!”
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