'How many more pages?' Queen's private journal tells of 'boredom' at father's coronation
- 2 years ago
The Queen was "bored" during her own father's coronation in Westminster Abbey, according to her own private journals. The astonishing detail was revealed in Elizabeth: The Unseen Queen, a 75-minute archive documentary which aired on the BBC on Sunday evening. In one section of the documentary, covering the moment her father King George VI was crowned, the young Elizabeth admitted she was "bored" by the lengthy ceremony. George VI ascended the throne upon the abdication of his brother, Edward VIII, on 11 December 1936. In her private journals describing the event, the future Queen wrote: "I thought it all very, very wonderful and I expect the Abbey did, too, as Papa was crowned." However, sh ...
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