The year was 1953, and a 25 year old Princess Elizabeth was about to go into the history books as the UK’s next reigning monarch.
Fresh from the trauma of WWII, a nation eager for a good old fashioned knees-up prepared for the mother of all celebrations with viewing events - it was the first ever televised coronation, watched by an audience of 27 million in the UK alone - and epic street parties where the newly invented dish, coronation chicken, stole the show.
