You mentioned Queen Salote of Tonga, she kept the hood of her carriage down saying afterwards, "If these people can get wet in the rain in honour of their Queen, so could I". It made her very popular
I was 12 years old when the coronation took place. My dad bought a tiny tv set just for us to watch the service. Black and white of course and very flickering pictures. Yes the children were Charles and Anne, also there was Princess Margaret, the Queen's sister. I have just watched the cortege leave Balmoral Castle and travel 6 hours to Edinburgh, where the Queen will be at rest until Tuesday. Beautiful scenery, no wonder the Queen loved Scotland.
King Charles told a story about he and his sister Anne at bath time watching their mother with the crown on her head practicing her walk around the room . The crown being so heavy , I believe 5 pounds in weight I think .. she couldn't bend her neck forward or she would do a serious injury to herself because crown sat firmly around the head . So she would practice her walk. Imagine sitting in the bath as a small child watching your mother wearing her crown. Surreal. No wonder it was an abiding memory for them.
5:44 The Queen’s maids of honour were:Lady Mayra Hamilton (1930-2020), Lady Jane Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Lady Anne Coke, Lady Jane Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, Lady Rosemary Spencer-Churchill, Lady Mary Baillie-Hamilton. Apart from Moyra Hamilton, they are all still alive aged 88 to 93.
Those other ladies were the ladies in waiting. And the little girl is Princess Anne, now 72. The Queen Mother propped up King George VI, who was very shy and hadn’t expected to be king. When he died, Winston Churchill wrote on the flowers he sent, “For valour”, as the shy king got through the war and lead the country well. He relied on a strong smoking habit too, which killed him in the end.
@@jjmac83 Indeed! In all my three-quarters of a century of existence the only time I have ever heard the words ‘All hail’ employed has been in US entertainment programmes when people are paying a jovial mock homage to one of their fellow citizens who has achieved something significant.
As a point of information the peers (lords) in their robes do not wear crowns but coronets, and their ranks are denoted by barons, the 5th and lowest rank, having a circle of plain balls round them up to duke, the topmost rank, having strawberry leaves.
to be pedantic, the coronet of a baron has six large silver balls - pearls- set at equal distances on the circlet; Viscounts have sixteen small silver balls, called pearls, all set closely together directly upon the circlet; Earls have eight strawberry leaves alternating with eight silver balls on tall spikes. A marquess's coronet is a golden circlet with four strawberry leaves around it (pointing up from it), alternating with four large silver balls (called pearls) on points. The ducal coronet has undergone several modifications in form since it was first introduced in 1337. when Prince Edward of Woodstock, better known as the Black Prince, was created Duke of Cornwall by his father, Edward III. As now worn, it has eight golden leaves of a conventional type-the "strawberry leaves," so called - set erect upon a circlet of gold, and having their stalks so connected as to form a wreath.
It would be exteremely difficult to do that. If you wanted to scrap the monarchy you would have to pretty much build a whole new country from the ground up. It's just not practical.
Queen Salote of Tonga (an island in the Pacific and then a British protectorate) was one of the celebrities of the coronation. A very large lady with a great personality. She was in a carriage with the Sultan of Brunei a very small gentleman. Somebody in a London's gentleman's club wondered who the little guy with Queen Salote was? Noel Coward the famous playwright said "Her Lunch!" Casual racism 70 years ago. Queen SAlote used her sudden international prominence to found one of the most active and then progressive women's orgainsations int he English-speaking world.
The Queen has a lot of Carriages but the one used for the coronation was used at the platinum Jubilee and has been used by every monarch since your favourite George III. Also the Queen in the other carriage was Queen Sālote of Tonga
Please react to the colour version. It is so much better. The one you want to watch is about 20mins long and show her arriving in a gold coach and all the soldiers from all over the world including Canada an Australia marching behind her. The colour version that is about 22mins long, explains what each item she is given to hold and why they are doing what they are. The longer colourized one is far better.
I will be in London to pay my respects on Monday the 19th for her majestys funeral along with thousands and thousands of others , it's going to be emotional .
Asking about value of Royal jewellery there is a video on RUclips where she explains about the Crown jewels. Some of the biggest diamonds. Plenty of info on them. If you like history, you should look up essays by King George III, written when he was a boy, on slavery- he considered it abhorrent. About 1748. Slavery was abolished under his reign. Food for thought my boy.
The titles of these people goes back many hundreds of years from families who have been loyal to the Monarchies The Queen Mother came from a titled family. If you want to know what the Queen mother was like, watch the film THE KINGS SPEECH
The trainbearers were the daughters of various Dukes etc , and there was a programme made a few years ago where some of them reminisced about the Coronation and all the excitement and fuss leading up to it. Should be online somewhere.
Love that you’re so interested in our History and are quite knowledgeable already. Keep watching. I learnt a few thing’s myself that are new to me. Thanks for posting. From the UK
Exactly so about history and context! Which is why in 'old' nations like Britain, where we're always surrounded by our human history, 200 years feels like a moment and 500 years feels like just family history. Perhaps 1000 years starts to feel like a long time ago! In the village I grew up in were the remains of an Iron Age hillfort, and 7 miles away was the Roman city of Chester.
There's writing tablets from 5000 years ago in Ireland. Same time period as the Egyptians were building the pyramids. And Stonehenge was built. History in the British Isles is vast.
+ Lady Rosemary Muir, daughter of the 10th Duke of Marlborough formerly Lady Rosemary Spencer-Churchill; + Lady Jane Rayne Lacey, daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry formerly Lady Jane Vane-Tempest-Stuart; + Lady Moyra Campbell, formerly Lady Moyra Hamilton whose father was the 4th Duke of Abercorn; + Lady Mary Russell, formerly Lady Mary Baillie-Hamilton, daughter of the 12th Earl of Haddington; + Lady Jane Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Ancaster; + Lady Glenconner, formerly Lady Anne Coke, daughter of the Earl of Leicester.
Connor! Why not try to get over to the UK for the coronation? it'll be in around next Summertime, maybe slightly longer away? It would be the experience of a lifetime? 🙂 God Save The King!
That little girl on the balcony, next to young Charles III, is his sister (3 yrs younger), Anne, the Princess Royal. Wasn't clear enough to see exactly which one, but one of the women between Elizabeth II and the Queen Mother, was Princess Margaret, Elizabeth's younger sister. The Queen Mother was very loved by her people. She and her late husband, George VI, were cherished for their personal support of the people during the Nazi blitz on England. For 57 consecutive nights, the Nazis bombed cities all over the UK, including several on Buckingham Palace itself. Every day, George and Queen Mother would appear in the bombed areas and lend support to their people. Over 40,000 died in the Nazi blitz. Thank you for posting such an historic event in such a respectful and knowledgeable way. Your interest and respect for their institutions is so evident. You did a great job, and I send you a wave of thanks and appreciation.
As someone else mentioned, you might try to get here for the coronation. It would be very special to be in London for such an historic event, especially after your immersion with British culture.
The little girl was indeed the Princess Royal - Anne. She was my Command-in-Chief as a member of the Royal Signal Corps. My personal favourite Royal - check out the Ian Ball attack on her in Hyde Park in 1974. Say time, and I know I will miss the presence of her Majesty. I actually always rather liked Charles and had a lot of sympathy for him. The Diana nightmare did such huge damage to him and the monarchy. Charles is very much his mother's son, and has that sense of service and duty, and I am sure he will do a great job as our new King.
At the moment of crowning, the congregation proclaimed, "God Save the Queen". Everyone wearing a coronet is a Lord or Lady of the Realm, and could don their coronets only after the Monarch was crowned. There was an apocryphal tale that, because they all had to be in their seats for hours, many hid sandwiches in their coronets to eat while awaiting the start of the ceremony! The women in white on the balcony were the Queen's Maids of Honour, who carried her train, and who all had to be the daughters of Dukes or Earls. The children were Prince Charles and Princess Anne.
The ladies on the balcony are the Queen's ladies in waiting. I have a magazine somewhere that has an article by my son who interviewed one of the ladies in waiting about the coronation. I can't remember her name but I'll find it.
All those wearing Coronets are Dukes, Earls etc. The carriages and coaches are the same as are used today. The hat is called a 'fez'. It orginates with the Ottomans. It spread from Turkey across the Ottoman Empire to Egypt, North Africa et al.
Before my time. But I do have fond memories of the 1977 silver jubilee. As a young child standing in the crowds at Wimbledon, as the Queen came past was magical and something I'll never forget.
The crown jewels are said to be priceless the other people wearing coronets are Earls and Dukes the gold coach is still used in state ceremonies and I am sure it will be used for the coronation of his majesty
The guys with the hats are the Princes, Dukes, Earls, Barons etc. the little boy was Prince Charles - now His Majesty King Charles III, the lady was Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. The little girls was Her Royal Highness the Princess Ann The Princess Royal. The other women on the balcony were the Queens bridesmaids who had met the Queen for the first time about 6 hours earlier. The red hats are a fez, widely worn in Turkey. Queen Silloti of Tonga insisted she rode in an open carriage despite the rain so people could see her. There is a story that at the last minute the Sultan of Brunei (who weighed 6 stone wringing wet) asked to ride with her. Queen Sillotti was known for her sheer size and weight. When the carriage came in to view a tv commenter said oh, who’s that in the carriage with her. Before any one could answer, you quite clearly heard Noel Coward in the background mutter ‘Her Lunch’?. As to value, the diamond in the front of the crown is the khoinoor. It’s about a 170 carets in size/weight. The average engagement ring is usually less than half a caret.
St. Edward's Crown is the Coronation Crown, not to be confused with the Imperial State Crown, which is in more regular use. The Imperial State Crown is lighter and used at State Openings of Parliament.
HI CONNOR DEBRA HERE FROM SOUTH WALES UK The red tasselled hat that is worn in Turkey is called a FEZ and it is part of the Turkish national costume. The other ladies were the Queen's Ladies in Waiting, and the little girl was Princess Anne, who was only 3 years old at the time of her mother's coronation
On the balcony looking at their phones.... I think it's Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret (Sister), Prince Charles (Son) and the Princess Royal, Princess Mary (Queen's aunt).
Not exactly a Royalist, but totally understand that asking American's to understand a culture so entwined and close to them than any other country or nation on this planet, when they can barely comprehend news outside of their individual states, is a tall order😉. hopefully 1 or 2 get it.
The hat the Commonwealth soldiers are wearing is the Fez. It originated in Morocco, but spread quite widely. The Shriners adopted it basically because it was generally 'Arabic' and a bit mysterious.
The picture was so cute when Charles as a little boy sing along with the music when he stands next to his grandma that could have been my son when he was little that`show children are when they hear music.💕❣💚💙💜
I understand you get emotional watching her in those old videos. She was really beautiful and...lovely... There´s something girlish and warm and naive and playful, yet determined and she just did what she said she would do... Tried her best, did her best... Remarkable woman. Remarkable life. I am a woman and I have to say I watch in amazement what a woman she was... And it brings tears to my eyes watching her life play here...
Connor, thanks for taking the trouble to watch this. I really appreciate it. The people in the Abbey wearing little Crowns were the aristocracy. The women on the balcony with the Queen were her helpers
It's one of those things about a family - our family, I hasten to add - being in the same house for 110 years. During my move to a slightly smaller dwelling, 110 years of history had to be painstakingly packed up and moved. Amongst many, many books and old items the family treasured, are souvenir books, newspapers and magazines of the Coronation of Elizabeth. On the day of the Queen's death, some of the last came over and were unpacked. One of the Coronation cups had lost it's handle. The other though, escaped unscathed.
Yep. That’s the same exact carriage. The Gold State Coach was supposed to be for the coronation of George III (yes, that George III) for his coronation. It was commissioned in 1760 but wasn’t finished until a tear after his coronation in 1762. It cost thousands, the equivalent of $4m. It’s only sprung with leather straps so it’s very uncomfortable - at least that’s what the Queen said.
The hats are called fezes (singular: fez) they are indeed Turkish, and were introduced during the early 1800s as part of the Sultan's modernizing reforms, to replace turbans. The hat originated in North Africa, and the name comes from the city of Fez in Morocco. It has been said that they were introduced because they do not have peaks and did not interfere with the head-to-the-floor bowing in Islamic prayer. For example, the peak of say, a baseball cap, would be a real pain when trying to touch the floor with your forehead.
Yes Salote the name is still used to this day in Tonga. By the way that's Robert Menzies, PM of Australia at the time, standing very close to Winston Churchill. He actually was quite besotted with Elizabeth!
Any salutation beginning ‘All hail …’ is not British. I have only heard it, during a fairly long life, used by Americans in jovial salutation of someone they are saluting a jovial way mock-regal way. ‘All hail the Queen/King’ would never be heard in the UK.
Queen Sālote of Tonga was loved by the crowd. She was an important lady. When someone asked Noel Coward who the little man was in the carriage with her, he’s supposed to have said, “Her lunch”.
At 6:04 you can see at woman in a nun's habit behind the right shoulder of the Queen Mother. That is Princess Alice of Battenberg, Prince Phillip's mother.
When u said can we name them people....... They are the queen's ladies in waiting, basically they do what ever the queen asks... The people with the hats that look like crowns are the gentry, Lords etc
Loveley video. Her Majesty is currently resting in Holyrood Palace, less than a mile from my house. I will go up tomorrow to pay my respects. Such a wonderful Lady. Rest in Peace your Majesty. Long live The King.
As stated below the people wearing crowns are from the noble families the peers of the realm. Among them of course at this time are persons who had held their titles for eight years or so who had helped save the world from fascism. The ennobled Generals and Admirals and Air Marshals.
I believe if you break just the crown down to it’s precious metals it’s around $36m. Not including its jewels. The cullinan diamond alone is worth 2 billion. The Crown Jewels in total around 6billion. Of course if any were to be ever sold at auction, the historical factor has to come into it and any piece would bring in much more than it’s value.
The hat is a fez. Named after the Moroccan city of fez where the red berry dye comes from to make then red. (You haven’t seen Tommy Cooper yet, have you? Comedy magician from the olden days used to wear one.)
I like your comment about everybody looking like they are checking their phones. In fact they were all reading the printed Order of Service, to keep track of what was going on 🙂 I have one of the Orders of Service (the 1953 one), because my Grannie was at the 1937 and 1953 coronations. Trust me, they are complicated proceedings.
I was wondering what that noise was when you paused to speak lol, i could hear a crowd and it was so strange, i was thinking maybe you lived in a busy area with your window open XD. Then at the end that answered everything lol.
You can see the Crown Jewels if you visit The Tower of London, apart from when they are in use for a Coronation. The full regalia of the Crown Jewels contain 23,578 stones, among them Cullinan I (530 carats (106 g)), the largest clear cut diamond in the world, set in the Sovereign's Sceptre with Cross. It was cut from the largest gem-quality rough diamond ever found, the eponymous Cullinan, discovered in South Africa in 1905 and presented to Edward VII. On top of her personal jewellery collection, Queen Elizabeth also had access to the Crown Jewels, which is estimated to be worth US$3.48 billion in total.
At the beginning you asked where is this building. It's the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh Scotland. Its the Monarchs official residence in Scotland. Tonight Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II body is resting in the throne room of the Palace, Sunday 11th September 2022. Her family are with her at the Palace of Holyroodhouse tomorrow King Charles & Queen Camilla will join them for the 24 hr lying in state in Edinburgh before Her body is flown back to London. You were right it was a young King Charles with his Grandmother Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother watching the Coronation. When she was crowned everybody was saying God Save The Queen 3 times. The ladies who curtsey and held the train of the Queen's robe were her Ladies In Waiting, the men wearing robes and coronets (mini crowns) are hereditary and life peers Dukes and Earls.
The nearly five pounds of gold used to construct the crown is today worth more than $100,000, while the collection of stones in the precious metal likely place the value of this crown around $39 million. 5 pounds of gold and precious jewels, which in euro mesaurements is 2.2kg! almost neck breaking!
It's amazing to think at the last coronation, people actually went out and bought TVs just to be able to watch it, at the upcoming coronation, people will be watching it on a mobile phone, tablet, computer, or a TV.
You mentioned Queen Salote of Tonga, she kept the hood of her carriage down saying afterwards, "If these people can get wet in the rain in honour of their Queen, so could I".
It made her very popular
I was 12 years old when the coronation took place. My dad bought a tiny tv set just for us to watch the service. Black and white of course and very flickering pictures.
Yes the children were Charles and Anne, also there was Princess Margaret, the Queen's sister.
I have just watched the cortege leave Balmoral Castle and travel 6 hours to Edinburgh, where the Queen will be at rest until Tuesday. Beautiful scenery, no wonder the Queen loved Scotland.
My grandmother talked about this too! What a wonderful moment in history to be a part of!
King Charles told a story about he and his sister Anne at bath time watching their mother with the crown on her head practicing her walk around the room . The crown being so heavy , I believe 5 pounds in weight I think .. she couldn't bend her neck forward or she would do a serious injury to herself because crown sat firmly around the head . So she would practice her walk. Imagine sitting in the bath as a small child watching your mother wearing her crown. Surreal. No wonder it was an abiding memory for them.
5:44 The Queen’s maids of honour were:Lady Mayra Hamilton (1930-2020), Lady Jane Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Lady Anne Coke, Lady Jane Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, Lady Rosemary Spencer-Churchill, Lady Mary Baillie-Hamilton. Apart from Moyra Hamilton, they are all still alive aged 88 to 93.
Those other ladies were the ladies in waiting. And the little girl is Princess Anne, now 72. The Queen Mother propped up King George VI, who was very shy and hadn’t expected to be king. When he died, Winston Churchill wrote on the flowers he sent, “For valour”, as the shy king got through the war and lead the country well. He relied on a strong smoking habit too, which killed him in the end.
That's 'god save the queen', they're saying. The UK is a partial theocracy.
They are saying All Hail The Queen. It's even in the transcripts.
@@andreab449 what transcripts are you reading from
@@jjmac83 Indeed! In all my three-quarters of a century of existence the only time I have ever heard the words ‘All hail’ employed has been in US entertainment programmes when people are paying a jovial mock homage to one of their fellow citizens who has achieved something significant.
Queen Salote of Tonga (died 1965) became an unlikely star, because she had a big friendly smile even though it was pouring with rain.
As a point of information the peers (lords) in their robes do not wear crowns but coronets, and their ranks are denoted by barons, the 5th and lowest rank, having a circle of plain balls round them up to duke, the topmost rank, having strawberry leaves.
to be pedantic, the coronet of a baron has six large silver balls - pearls- set at equal distances on the circlet; Viscounts have sixteen small silver balls, called pearls, all set closely together directly upon the circlet; Earls have eight strawberry leaves alternating with eight silver balls on tall spikes. A marquess's coronet is a golden circlet with four strawberry leaves around it (pointing up from it), alternating with four large silver balls (called pearls) on points. The ducal coronet has undergone several modifications in form since it was first introduced in 1337. when Prince Edward of Woodstock, better known as the Black Prince, was created Duke of Cornwall by his father, Edward III. As now worn, it has eight golden leaves of a conventional type-the "strawberry leaves," so called - set erect upon a circlet of gold, and having their stalks so connected as to form a wreath.
There is a colour version.
Hi Conner thank you for your kind words it is a sad time in the UK. The coronation is much better in colour
Some of the best places in the world are monarchies.
I hope the UK can keep their monarchy, it's important.
It would be exteremely difficult to do that. If you wanted to scrap the monarchy you would have to pretty much build a whole new country from the ground up. It's just not practical.
Queen Salote of Tonga (an island in the Pacific and then a British protectorate) was one of the celebrities of the coronation. A very large lady with a great personality. She was in a carriage with the Sultan of Brunei a very small gentleman. Somebody in a London's gentleman's club wondered who the little guy with Queen Salote was? Noel Coward the famous playwright said "Her Lunch!" Casual racism 70 years ago. Queen SAlote used her sudden international prominence to found one of the most active and then progressive women's orgainsations int he English-speaking world.
The Coronation was in June 53, my now sadly late mum and dad married in November 53.
The Queen has a lot of Carriages but the one used for the coronation was used at the platinum Jubilee and has been used by every monarch since your favourite George III.
Also the Queen in the other carriage was Queen Sālote of Tonga
Please react to the colour version. It is so much better. The one you want to watch is about 20mins long and show her arriving in a gold coach and all the soldiers from all over the world including Canada an Australia marching behind her. The colour version that is about 22mins long, explains what each item she is given to hold and why they are doing what they are. The longer colourized one is far better.
The other people with crowns are people from noble families, Dukes, earls etc.
I will be in London to pay my respects on Monday the 19th for her majestys funeral along with thousands and thousands of others , it's going to be emotional .
Asking about value of Royal jewellery there is a video on RUclips where she explains about the Crown jewels. Some of the biggest diamonds. Plenty of info on them. If you like history, you should look up essays by King George III, written when he was a boy, on slavery- he considered it abhorrent. About 1748. Slavery was abolished under his reign. Food for thought my boy.
The titles of these people goes back many hundreds of years from families who have been loyal to the Monarchies The Queen Mother came from a titled family. If you want to know what the Queen mother was like, watch the film THE KINGS SPEECH
The trainbearers were the daughters of various Dukes etc , and there was a programme made a few years ago where some of them reminisced about the Coronation and all the excitement and fuss leading up to it. Should be online somewhere.
Love that you’re so interested in our History and are quite knowledgeable already. Keep watching. I learnt a few thing’s myself that are new to me. Thanks for posting. From the UK
Exactly so about history and context! Which is why in 'old' nations like Britain, where we're always surrounded by our human history, 200 years feels like a moment and 500 years feels like just family history. Perhaps 1000 years starts to feel like a long time ago!
In the village I grew up in were the remains of an Iron Age hillfort, and 7 miles away was the Roman city of Chester.
There's writing tablets from 5000 years ago in Ireland. Same time period as the Egyptians were building the pyramids. And Stonehenge was built. History in the British Isles is vast.
+ Lady Rosemary Muir, daughter of the 10th Duke of Marlborough formerly Lady Rosemary Spencer-Churchill; + Lady Jane Rayne Lacey, daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry formerly Lady Jane Vane-Tempest-Stuart;
+ Lady Moyra Campbell, formerly Lady Moyra Hamilton whose father was the 4th Duke of Abercorn;
+ Lady Mary Russell, formerly Lady Mary Baillie-Hamilton, daughter of the 12th Earl of Haddington;
+ Lady Jane Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Ancaster;
+ Lady Glenconner, formerly Lady Anne Coke, daughter of the Earl of Leicester.
Connor! Why not try to get over to the UK for the coronation? it'll be in around next Summertime, maybe slightly longer away?
It would be the experience of a lifetime? 🙂
God Save The King!
That little girl on the balcony, next to young Charles III, is his sister (3 yrs younger), Anne, the Princess Royal. Wasn't clear enough to see exactly which one, but one of the women between Elizabeth II and the Queen Mother, was Princess Margaret, Elizabeth's younger sister. The Queen Mother was very loved by her people. She and her late husband, George VI, were cherished for their personal support of the people during the Nazi blitz on England. For 57 consecutive nights, the Nazis bombed cities all over the UK, including several on Buckingham Palace itself. Every day, George and Queen Mother would appear in the bombed areas and lend support to their people. Over 40,000 died in the Nazi blitz.
Thank you for posting such an historic event in such a respectful and knowledgeable way. Your interest and respect for their institutions is so evident. You did a great job, and I send you a wave of thanks and appreciation.
As someone else mentioned, you might try to get here for the coronation. It would be very special to be in London for such an historic event, especially after your immersion with British culture.
The little girl was indeed the Princess Royal - Anne. She was my Command-in-Chief as a member of the Royal Signal Corps. My personal favourite Royal - check out the Ian Ball attack on her in Hyde Park in 1974. Say time, and I know I will miss the presence of her Majesty. I actually always rather liked Charles and had a lot of sympathy for him. The Diana nightmare did such huge damage to him and the monarchy. Charles is very much his mother's son, and has that sense of service and duty, and I am sure he will do a great job as our new King.
The Queen will be missed, bank hoilday on Monday 19th September for the Queens funeral 😢
At the moment of crowning, the congregation proclaimed, "God Save the Queen". Everyone wearing a coronet is a Lord or Lady of the Realm, and could don their coronets only after the Monarch was crowned. There was an apocryphal tale that, because they all had to be in their seats for hours, many hid sandwiches in their coronets to eat while awaiting the start of the ceremony! The women in white on the balcony were the Queen's Maids of Honour, who carried her train, and who all had to be the daughters of Dukes or Earls. The children were Prince Charles and Princess Anne.
I watched the coronation aged 3 on my uncles TV. My mother is still going strong.
They were looking at their phones. They're time travelers!
The ladies on the balcony are the Queen's ladies in waiting. I have a magazine somewhere that has an article by my son who interviewed one of the ladies in waiting about the coronation. I can't remember her name but I'll find it.
All those wearing Coronets are Dukes, Earls etc. The carriages and coaches are the same as are used today. The hat is called a 'fez'. It orginates with the Ottomans. It spread from Turkey across the Ottoman Empire to Egypt, North Africa et al.
Before my time. But I do have fond memories of the 1977 silver jubilee.
As a young child standing in the crowds at Wimbledon, as the Queen came past was magical and something I'll never forget.
The crown jewels are said to be priceless the other people wearing coronets are Earls and Dukes the gold coach is still used in state ceremonies and I am sure it will be used for the coronation of his majesty
The Queen's stamp collection alone is worth around 120 million dollars.
The guys with the hats are the Princes, Dukes, Earls, Barons etc. the little boy was Prince Charles - now His Majesty King Charles III, the lady was Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. The little girls was Her Royal Highness the Princess Ann The Princess Royal. The other women on the balcony were the Queens bridesmaids who had met the Queen for the first time about 6 hours earlier. The red hats are a fez, widely worn in Turkey. Queen Silloti of Tonga insisted she rode in an open carriage despite the rain so people could see her. There is a story that at the last minute the Sultan of Brunei (who weighed 6 stone wringing wet) asked to ride with her. Queen Sillotti was known for her sheer size and weight. When the carriage came in to view a tv commenter said oh, who’s that in the carriage with her. Before any one could answer, you quite clearly heard Noel Coward in the background mutter ‘Her Lunch’?. As to value, the diamond in the front of the crown is the khoinoor. It’s about a 170 carets in size/weight. The average engagement ring is usually less than half a caret.
is there a part one
As a point of interest the Queen Mother insisted that the Royal family stay in London during the war to keep up Londoners moral.
The Londoners may not all have been moral during the blackout but the Queen Mother hopefully kept up their morale!
St. Edward's Crown is the Coronation Crown, not to be confused with the Imperial State Crown, which is in more regular use. The Imperial State Crown is lighter and used at State Openings of Parliament.
I was sat on my dads shoulders in the Mall watching the procession, and my eldest brother was a a gaurdsman lining the Mall
Not very PC I know, but I heard that someone asked Noel Coward who the small man in the Queen of Tonga's carriage was and he replied "Lunch!"
Never stop watching history,I watch your videos,I to love history
"Looking at their phones" If you mean The Queen Mother, it was more likely the betting on runners in the 3-15 at Ascot. 😁
HI CONNOR
DEBRA HERE FROM SOUTH WALES UK
The red tasselled hat that is worn in Turkey is called a FEZ and it is part of the Turkish national costume.
The other ladies were the Queen's Ladies in Waiting, and the little girl was Princess Anne, who was only 3 years old at the time of her mother's coronation
The coronation was also filmed in colour. Take a look at that too because the black & white doesn't do it justice.
On the balcony looking at their phones.... I think it's Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret (Sister), Prince Charles (Son) and the Princess Royal, Princess Mary (Queen's aunt).
Not exactly a Royalist, but totally understand that asking American's to understand a culture so entwined and close to them than any other country or nation on this planet, when they can barely comprehend news outside of their individual states, is a tall order😉. hopefully 1 or 2 get it.
The hat you were asking about is called a fez.
The crown alone is priceless. Valued today at 5 Billion pounds but no. The original Ruby was from 1368 or something.
The hat the Commonwealth soldiers are wearing is the Fez. It originated in Morocco, but spread quite widely. The Shriners adopted it basically because it was generally 'Arabic' and a bit mysterious.
It was really amazing...thanks for this video👍
thank you ,yeas that is Princess Anne
The picture was so cute when Charles as a little boy sing along with the music when he stands next to his grandma that could have been my son when he was little that`show children are when they hear music.💕❣💚💙💜
I understand you get emotional watching her in those old videos. She was really beautiful and...lovely... There´s something girlish and warm and naive and playful, yet determined and she just did what she said she would do... Tried her best, did her best... Remarkable woman. Remarkable life.
I am a woman and I have to say I watch in amazement what a woman she was... And it brings tears to my eyes watching her life play here...
She did an interview and said the crown was a 'dreadful heavy thing' 😆😆
Connor, thanks for taking the trouble to watch this. I really appreciate it. The people in the Abbey wearing little Crowns were the aristocracy. The women on the balcony with the Queen were her helpers
Coronets.
Those hats on the soilders are called a Fez
It's one of those things about a family - our family, I hasten to add - being in the same house for 110 years. During my move to a slightly smaller dwelling, 110 years of history had to be painstakingly packed up and moved. Amongst many, many books and old items the family treasured, are souvenir books, newspapers and magazines of the Coronation of Elizabeth. On the day of the Queen's death, some of the last came over and were unpacked. One of the Coronation cups had lost it's handle. The other though, escaped unscathed.
That's very upsetting. I know they are only things, but treasured items are treasured items.
Long live the queen is what they are saying.
The hat is a Moroccan Fez.
The Gold State Coach is only used for special occasions and coronations.
The 'Gold State Coach' was commissioned by King George III in 1760.
some of the money might have come from the colonies in the americas
Yep. That’s the same exact carriage. The Gold State Coach was supposed to be for the coronation of George III (yes, that George III) for his coronation. It was commissioned in 1760 but wasn’t finished until a tear after his coronation in 1762. It cost thousands, the equivalent of $4m. It’s only sprung with leather straps so it’s very uncomfortable - at least that’s what the Queen said.
The hats are called fezes (singular: fez) they are indeed Turkish, and were introduced during the early 1800s as part of the Sultan's modernizing reforms, to replace turbans. The hat originated in North Africa, and the name comes from the city of Fez in Morocco. It has been said that they were introduced because they do not have peaks and did not interfere with the head-to-the-floor bowing in Islamic prayer. For example, the peak of say, a baseball cap, would be a real pain when trying to touch the floor with your forehead.
They are saying "God save the Queen"
Yes, the exact same carriage, used recently during the Queens Platinum jubilee celebrations.
Yes Salote the name is still used to this day in Tonga. By the way that's Robert Menzies, PM of Australia at the time, standing very close to Winston Churchill. He actually was quite besotted with Elizabeth!
At the moment of Crowning with St Edward's Crown the people cry "God Save The Queen. Long Live The Queen. God Save The Queen"
Any salutation beginning ‘All hail …’ is not British. I have only heard it, during a fairly long life, used by Americans in jovial salutation of someone they are saluting a jovial way mock-regal way. ‘All hail the Queen/King’ would never be heard in the UK.
The items the Queen is wearing is priceless. No exact price probably in the billions
Queen Sālote of Tonga was loved by the crowd. She was an important lady. When someone asked Noel Coward who the little man was in the carriage with her, he’s supposed to have said, “Her lunch”.
She weighed 20 stone!
At 6:04 you can see at woman in a nun's habit behind the right shoulder of the Queen Mother. That is Princess Alice of Battenberg, Prince Phillip's mother.
When u said can we name them people....... They are the queen's ladies in waiting, basically they do what ever the queen asks... The people with the hats that look like crowns are the gentry, Lords etc
I think what the Queen was wearing is priceless. She can’t sell it.
That looked like Gracie Fields wearing a tiara in a carriage … oh, it’s Clementine Churchill!!!
The hats are Australian slouch hats as they are Australian troops
Loveley video. Her Majesty is currently resting in Holyrood Palace, less than a mile from my house. I will go up tomorrow to pay my respects. Such a wonderful Lady. Rest in Peace your Majesty. Long live The King.
My favourite Amercan commentator; Thank you !
As stated below the people wearing crowns are from the noble families the peers of the realm. Among them of course at this time are persons who had held their titles for eight years or so who had helped save the world from fascism. The ennobled Generals and Admirals and Air Marshals.
The hat you're talking about is called a "Fez"
the Dukes, Earls, Viscount, Barons and Lords (The Peers) wear Coronets, they are noble crowns.
👨🏾💻 I think it's amazing that you have a lot of questions & are willing to do the research.
It is Charles.
Yes the 2 children on the balcony are Prince Charles and Princess Anne.
The men with coronets are peers of the realm.
I believe if you break just the crown down to it’s precious metals it’s around $36m. Not including its jewels. The cullinan diamond alone is worth 2 billion. The Crown Jewels in total around 6billion. Of course if any were to be ever sold at auction, the historical factor has to come into it and any piece would bring in much more than it’s value.
That shringers hospital adverts are cool the little boy that’s speaks is worth given few bucks
They were saying ‘God save the Queen’
Hope your well Connor !
The hat is a fez. Named after the Moroccan city of fez where the red berry dye comes from to make then red. (You haven’t seen Tommy Cooper yet, have you? Comedy magician from the olden days used to wear one.)
When the crown is placed on The Queen's head everyone shouts God Save The Queen
I like your comment about everybody looking like they are checking their phones. In fact they were all reading the printed Order of Service, to keep track of what was going on 🙂 I have one of the Orders of Service (the 1953 one), because my Grannie was at the 1937 and 1953 coronations. Trust me, they are complicated proceedings.
I was wondering what that noise was when you paused to speak lol, i could hear a crowd and it was so strange, i was thinking maybe you lived in a busy area with your window open XD. Then at the end that answered everything lol.
You can see the Crown Jewels if you visit The Tower of London, apart from when they are in use for a Coronation. The full regalia of the Crown Jewels contain 23,578 stones, among them Cullinan I (530 carats (106 g)), the largest clear cut diamond in the world, set in the Sovereign's Sceptre with Cross. It was cut from the largest gem-quality rough diamond ever found, the eponymous Cullinan, discovered in South Africa in 1905 and presented to Edward VII.
On top of her personal jewellery collection, Queen Elizabeth also had access to the Crown Jewels, which is estimated to be worth US$3.48 billion in total.
The crown is valued at 5.1 billion dollars
At the beginning you asked where is this building. It's the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh Scotland. Its the Monarchs official residence in Scotland. Tonight Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II body is resting in the throne room of the Palace, Sunday 11th September 2022. Her family are with her at the Palace of Holyroodhouse tomorrow King Charles & Queen Camilla will join them for the 24 hr lying in state in Edinburgh before Her body is flown back to London.
You were right it was a young King Charles with his Grandmother Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother watching the Coronation. When she was crowned everybody was saying God Save The Queen 3 times. The ladies who curtsey and held the train of the Queen's robe were her Ladies In Waiting, the men wearing robes and coronets (mini crowns) are hereditary and life peers Dukes and Earls.
The nearly five pounds of gold used to construct the crown is today worth more than $100,000, while the collection of stones in the precious metal likely place the value of this crown around $39 million.
5 pounds of gold and precious jewels, which in euro mesaurements is 2.2kg! almost neck breaking!
they said that the mass of the crown jewels are worth around 2 billion pounds
Why watch in black and white? The colour version is so much better!
Yes, it is strange that the further back in history you go on a regular basis, the closer to our ancestors you feel.
It's amazing to think at the last coronation, people actually went out and bought TVs just to be able to watch it, at the upcoming coronation, people will be watching it on a mobile phone, tablet, computer, or a TV.