Unlike many - in part down to age, of course - I remember watching the last coronation nearly seventy years ago. Not in London but in Canada at my uncle’s house. (He had a tv and we didn’t). It was quite a feat for the infant CBC television network. As CBC recalls:
“CBC Television had been on the air for less than nine months in Montreal and Toronto when the coronation took place, and covering it was the network’s greatest challenge to date…the CBC made recordings of the BBC broadcast, processed the film using an accelerated method and put them on RAF bombers to Goose Bay. The films were then flown by RCAF jets to Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa, which had started that very day”
Point of national pride being that Canadian tv was able to show the ceremony half an hour before the American networks.
And tomorrow? Visiting friends. TV large screen and in colour this time.