Coronation portrait of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. June 2, 1953

Today is the 64th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation on June 2, 1953. As I discuss in my latest article for the Dundurn Press blog, the decision to televise the ceremony was controversial at the time (a debate dramatized in the first season of the recent Netflix series, The Crown).

The Queen’s ultimate decision to invite the BBC into Westminster Abbey to televise the coronation allowed the Commonwealth to share in the event and made the television a household item. As I discuss in the article, the Queen continues to make use of new technologies to publicize royal events and philanthropy.

Click here to read “The Queen’s Coronation on Camera” at Dundurn Press