1953. Le couronnement d'Elizabeth II

On June 2, 1953, more than 30 million television viewers in Europe and over one hundred million viewers around the world witnessed the coronation of young Queen Elizabeth II of England. The six-step ceremony for the then 27-year-old with 7,500 guests took place in Westminster Abbey, where even the rehearsals that were already taking place were filmed.
Elizabeth II was crowned to queen on June 2, 1953. That day will also go down in the history of broadcasting: it has been calculated that it was at that time in Britain that the number of television viewers first exceeded the number of radio listeners. One hundred million people around the world watched the live broadcast. However, Winston Churchill, among others, had opposed television broadcast. Many feared royal grandeur would incite anti-British sentiment and accelerate the destruction of the world's most powerful empire. And were the high expenses for the organization and the technical equipment with over 20 cameras reasonable?

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