Among the guests at Queen Elizabeth’s 1953 coronation ceremony, a young boy seated in Westminster Abbey’s royal box gazed in wide-eyed wonder at the glittering events unfolding before him, his reactions swinging from excitement to boredom as the three-hour long service played out.
Seated between his grandmother, the Queen Mother, and his aunt, Princess Margaret, four-year-old Prince Charles tugged eagerly at his adored granny’s arm as he watched his mother being crowned Queen of the United Kingdom.
