Once upon a time, when Paddington Bear was just a twinkle in his creator Michael Bond’s eye, the author perched high up in Westminster Abbey at the Queen’s coronation.
Then a young BBC crew member on one of his first jobs in TV, the beloved late author got a sensational birdseye view of the young princess, who was his own age, swearing her solemn oath.
Just five years later he published a storybook about a Peruvian refugee bear – and 70 years on, Her Majesty took tea with the bear.
