Princess Alexandra (centre) is seen with her mother Princess Marina (left) and brothers the Duke of Kent (top left) and a young Prince Michael of Kent (third from right) as they leave Westminster Abbey after the Coronation. Lady Pamela Hicks, 93, a first cousin of the late Prince Philip and a confidante of Her Late Majesty, was also at the Abbey.Īs was Japan's Crown Prince Akihito, now 89, who would go on to reign as emperor of his country from 1989 until 2019.īelow, the Mail's new Royals section looks at the small band of survivors who witnessed the very start of Queen Elizabeth's record-breaking reign. So, too, was brother Prince Michael, 80, and cousin Prince Richard, 78, who is now the Duke of Gloucester. His 86-year-old sister, Princess Alexandra, was also there.
Then aged 17, he is the only surviving member of his family to have had a formal role at the time.
Yet only seven members of the Royal Family who were there on that incredible day in Westminster Abbey nearly 70 years ago are still alive, and not all will be at King Charles's Coronation this weekend.īesides Charles himself, who was aged just four when he witnessed the crowning of his mother, the Duke of Kent, now 87, is the most senior surviving royal who attended the Abbey ceremony. Dozens of royals and hundreds of other dignitaries attended the Queen's Coronation in 1953.
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