HERE IN OUR OWN COUNTRY WE DO NEED TOO ADD SOME POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE. I MEAN COME ON. AS AMERICANS WE HAVE A DEEP DOWN FEELING THAT EVEN THE FOUNDING FATHER'S HAD..... THAT HIDDEN NEED FOR SOMETHING GRAND...... 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Contrary to what is said the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland is not one of the PMs processing. Also at about 54 minutes the music is wrong! The choir is singing Stanford's Gloria in B flat, the Coronation Gloria which is an integral part of the Communion Service, and had been sung earlier !
She was a truly exceptional queen. She had impeccable dedication to duty, of which a marked occurrence was receiving Boris Johnson's resignation and appointing Liz Truss as PM two days before she died. Moreover, spending 40 minutes with both of them. She also kept the British monarchy relevant throughout her reign, through changing times. She also avoided politicizing the monarchy, as she was obligated to do, and was the most popular member of British royalty while she reigned. She also ended the British empire and established the Commonwealth, which is a thriving institution. Lastly, she set a perfect example to her successor, King Charles III. I can safely say that she will be immortalized by history, in the same way as the great wartime leader, Sir Winston Churchill.
So this is sped up a little bit. The music is too fast and when you match it to Charles III's coronation slow this video to 75-80%. You will never get the full sounds of this coronation as it was recorded on a genuine potato but you can mix in some of the newest coronation music with these visuals and kinda get an approximation on what this might have been like had it not been recorded in 1953.
This was all thanks to Prince Philip for getting the Coronation on TV. I wasn't born in this time period but I am fascinated by the Royal Family and have multiple documentaries about them and books about them.
11:50 Elizabeth said that gold carriage was horrible -- terribly uncomfortable. It's now 260 years old and was used to bring King Charles home from his own coronation. He went to the coronation in a carriage built in 2010. It also looks like a relic from old, but has air conditioning, electric windows and the crown has a mount for a camera. How times have changed ;)
I served with the RAAF in Vietnam during '67 and '68. I was an ADG and our training was based pretty much on the Army Infantry Corps. As such, we spent a fair bit of our time with the soldiers at Nui Dat and especially the "Horseshoe". Like many of these blokes, I came home to all the shitty spitting and mindless bleating of the anti- war brigade and I soon learned to be one of the invisible faces and just got on with life. I had no idea that this parade/reunion event was being planned and only heard about it about a month after it had taken place...I telephoned a couple of my fellow veterans and they were as surprised as I was! Ironically, only yesterday, I received my 50 year anniversary medallion in the mail and emailed my thanks to the very helpful team who had worked hard to get it to me...I read their reply this morning and in part it read " Thank you for your service"....That is the first and only time that anyone has ever said that to me.
I may seem “weird” to some but I have this thing where I like to watch comfort “movies, shows, documentaries” because it’s like an invisible hug you get inside from a busy selfish world!
3 October 1987? That's strange. I thought there was a welcome-home parade for Australian returned servicemen from the Vietnam War in 1981 or '82. But of course, I could be wrong.
