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The most ambitious and technically difficult broadcast the BBC had ever tackled.
This fascinating documentary reveals the behind the scenes story of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, drawing on rare archive footage and made using eyewitness accounts of participants and historical experts.
Directed by Jamie Muir
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
Self (archive Footage)
Richard Dimbleby
Self (archive Voice)
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Self (archive Footage)
Princess Margaret
Self (archive Footage)
Tamsin Greig
Narrator
Alastair Bruce
Historian
Hugo Vickers
Historian
James Wilkinson
Author, 'The Queen's Coronation'
L'abatis
1952
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