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Events on Tuesday 2 June 1953 1
1953Coronation of Queen Elizabeth IICrowned at Westminster AbbeyElizabeth II was crowned Queen of the United Kingdom at Westminster Abbey in a ceremony broadcast live on television for the first time. The coronation drew an estimated 20 million television viewers in Britain alone and millions more on radio worldwide. It marked the formal start of a reign that would last over seventy years.