Platinum jubilee: how Britain's children captured the Queen's coronation in scrapbooks 70 years ago
In 1953, Margaret, an 11-year-old pupil in Huntingdonshire, created a scrapbook. Instead of documenting her own interests and family life, she adorned the cover with three painted red shields, and pasted newspaper clippings about Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation, which took place in June of that year.
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