Elizabeth’s big day arrives and  for the first time ever during a coronation cameras film inside Westminster Abbey as she’s crowned by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Her wedding to the Duke of Edinburgh might’ve drawn a big crowd, but the queen’s crowning moment brings 96,000 people out in the streets, while roughly 277 million people watch the broadcast around the world. 

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2 Jun 1953

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