Hard to believe it's 70 years since the coronation. I remember it well, it was the time that the sales of televisions really took off, that we collected royal photographs at school to make scrap books, we got new dresses to wear for the day & were given coronation mugs.
I'm not an ardent royalist but have to say the Queen has been an admirable monarch, we won't see another with her qualities.
Tonight I watched a delightful programme on telly about her. The BBC's The Unseen Queen shows the Queen & her family's private life in videos, many of the photos & videos were taken by the Queen herself & her family & have never been shown publicly.
There are extracts from a number of her speeches and some lovely comments & quotations which show her wonderful qualities & strength of character.
My favourite quotation she used is this Australian Aboriginee proverb:
We are all visitors to this time, this place, we are just passing through.
Our purpose here is to observe, lo learn, to grow, to love ....
and then we return home.
Watch it if you get the chance, it's well worth it compared to the depressing stuff we're subjected to.
