:00:15. > :00:19.where astonishingly almost every moniker in our history has been
:00:19. > :00:24.crowned. Nearly 1000 years of our history represented here. I am
:00:24. > :00:28.standing in the centre of the Abbey, where Queen Elizabeth II was
:00:28. > :00:33.crowned 60 years ago and she is coming back today to celebrate that
:00:33. > :00:37.coronation. Something extraordinary has happened here this morning, two
:00:37. > :00:41.of the regalia used in the Coronation have been brought here to
:00:42. > :00:47.the abbey under close guard to be placed on the high altar for the
:00:47. > :00:50.duration of the service. Two very significant parts of the regalia. On
:00:50. > :00:59.the right, the golden eagle with his wings outstretched carrying the
:00:59. > :01:09.sacred oil with which the Queen was anointed. Then, the great Saint
:01:09. > :01:10.
:01:10. > :01:18.Edward 's crown, solid gold encrusted with Jools, heavy weighing
:01:18. > :01:23.five lbs. These two crucial objects, one representing her
:01:23. > :01:33.commitment to God, and the other her commitment to her people, both of
:01:33. > :01:49.
:01:49. > :01:55.which will be celebrated here this beloved, was actually designed to
:01:56. > :02:01.form a theatre for the coronation of kings and queens by Henry the third,
:02:01. > :02:05.designed so that as many people as possible could see the Coronation.
:02:05. > :02:13.The abbey itself dates back to Edward the confessor, who began the
:02:13. > :02:18.church in 1045 and who in his death in 1066 was buried here. His tomb
:02:18. > :02:24.has place of honour behind the high altar. It was once decorated with
:02:24. > :02:28.mosaic and gold which gleamed in the candlelight, and around him the
:02:28. > :02:37.tombs of other monarchs. In the Abbey there are over 3000 people
:02:37. > :02:41.buried, memorials to politicians and statesmen and artists and poets. A
:02:41. > :02:47.congregation has been arriving here for the past half hour or so,
:02:47. > :02:51.gathered from all the corners of the UK, chosen by the Queen's
:02:51. > :02:55.representatives in the country, the Lords lieu tenant. People from
:02:55. > :03:03.public life who have given public service, members of the armed forces
:03:03. > :03:06.and others. The Royal family will be here, 25 members of the Royal family
:03:07. > :03:10.joining the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh who was unwell yesterday
:03:10. > :03:19.it is said will come here this morning, determined not to miss the
:03:19. > :03:24.service. Sitting in the thrones you can see on the left. There will be
:03:24. > :03:27.the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall and the Duke and Duchess
:03:27. > :03:37.of Cambridge, and Prince Henry of Wales and other members of the Royal
:03:37. > :03:39.
:03:39. > :03:41.family. In 1953, nearly 2 million people came here to London to watch
:03:41. > :03:46.the spectacular Coronation procession and to get a glimpse of
:03:46. > :03:53.the new Queen and millions more saw the service for the first time live
:03:53. > :03:58.on television. But the most privileged people were the 8000 who
:03:58. > :04:06.were here in the abbey itself, and for them it is an excitement they
:04:06. > :04:12.could never forget. My most vivid memory is going back 15, 16 months
:04:12. > :04:19.to that morning in February, 1952, when we heard the minute bell going
:04:19. > :04:29.on the tower, and heard that this terribly sad thing, that the king
:04:29. > :04:30.
:04:31. > :04:35.had died. Suddenly it hit us... Coronation, wow! We were the last
:04:35. > :04:40.ones to have this experience, thank goodness, but I have never forgotten
:04:40. > :04:45.that, realising we were going to have a coronation. I felt amazed
:04:45. > :04:49.because to begin with we didn't know we would be maids of honour, we
:04:49. > :04:56.thought the Queen would have pages to carry her tray so we were
:04:56. > :04:58.thrilled when we were chosen. thrilled when we were chosen.
:04:58. > :05:08.a tremendous atmosphere in London. Everywhere you went, people were
:05:08. > :05:14.
:05:14. > :05:18.walking and wondering. It was tremendously vivid. Because of the
:05:18. > :05:24.war, everything was very depressing, my father was a regular
:05:24. > :05:32.soldier and my uncle was killed, almost everybody had lost somebody,
:05:32. > :05:38.but suddenly everybody seemed so happy and that is what I remember
:05:38. > :05:48.most. Prior to the Coronation, it was not just the choir rehearsing,
:05:48. > :05:54.it was anybody who had anything to do with the service including the
:05:54. > :05:59.code two -- coaches. One of them was the Coronation coach, pulled by its
:05:59. > :06:06.lovely white horses. I certainly remember going out to give lumps of
:06:06. > :06:13.sugar to the horses, and I think, James, did you go and sit in the
:06:13. > :06:19.Coronation coach? I think we did. You speak for yourself, I was not a
:06:19. > :06:24.naughty boy. And the Coronation chair itself, but we don't admit to
:06:24. > :06:32.that. Many of those people who were there 60 years ago have been invited
:06:32. > :06:40.back, and Sophie Raworth is with two of them. I am a few feet away from
:06:40. > :06:48.where the Queen will take her place shortly and I am with Julian James
:06:48. > :06:53.and James Mathewson. Good morning. Julian, your role 60 years ago?
:06:53. > :07:03.was the junior page to Viscount Cunningham, and he had to carry the
:07:03. > :07:04.
:07:04. > :07:13.Crown with which the Queen was crowned. The only trouble was that
:07:13. > :07:21.my co-page felt unwell in the rehearsal, but all went well.
:07:21. > :07:28.a photograph of you carrying, in front of the Queen. How much do you
:07:28. > :07:33.remember of that day? I remember forming for the procession and we
:07:34. > :07:41.had to face Her Majesty before we started off, and she looked so
:07:41. > :07:49.Serena and so majestic and that is a moment I will never forget. You were
:07:49. > :07:58.only 14 years old. James Mathewson, you had a big role, you were 21 and
:07:58. > :08:04.involved in the organisation. secretary to the Garter King of Arms
:08:04. > :08:10.and I was there in the rehearsals, and my job on the day was forming
:08:10. > :08:13.processions in the annex and leading the Duke of Gloucester and Earl
:08:13. > :08:22.Mountbatten in at the last minute because they arrived with the Queen.
:08:22. > :08:26.Did you meet the Queen? She attended quite a few rehearsals. Yes, she
:08:26. > :08:31.came seven or eight times, and on the second occasion the Earl
:08:31. > :08:36.Marshall chose me to stand in for the bishop and bath of Wales on the
:08:36. > :08:45.Queen's left-hand side, her junior supporter, and I stood beside her
:08:45. > :08:50.for an hour and a half. I let the Duchess of Norfolk tell the Queen
:08:50. > :08:58.what to do because she stood in for the Queen when the Queen wasn't
:08:58. > :09:03.here. Julian, you were 14 years old, were you nervous on the day? I just
:09:03. > :09:09.remembered being panic struck by the thought I might need to go to the
:09:10. > :09:17.toilet at the wrong moment! But all was well. What is it likes to be
:09:17. > :09:24.back here today? Wonderful. We feel very honoured to be here. What about
:09:24. > :09:28.you, James? It is lovely to see some of the people I met so long ago, 60
:09:28. > :09:36.years has flown, but it takes me back to one of the most wonderful
:09:36. > :09:39.days in my life. Wonderful to see you here, enjoy the ceremony. One of
:09:39. > :09:43.the most memorable parts of the Coronation service, everybody
:09:43. > :09:51.agrees, was the music that was played. It was meant to send a
:09:51. > :09:54.shiver down the spine, and in 1953 nearly 400 choristers from different
:09:54. > :09:59.churches and cathedrals rehearsed together and came here to sing,
:10:00. > :10:05.accompanied by the organ, by trumpets, and a huge orchestra.
:10:05. > :10:09.Together they lifted the roof. Today we will hear some of that coronation
:10:09. > :10:19.music, most spectacularly the anthem played as the Queen arrived at the
:10:19. > :10:24.
:10:24. > :10:30.abbey. I Was Glad When They Said Unto Me. It breaks off in the middle
:10:31. > :10:40.for the great shout from the scholars of Westminster School. Long
:10:41. > :10:43.
:10:43. > :10:53.live Queen Elizabeth! Sophie now looks back at that music with the
:10:53. > :10:53.
:10:54. > :11:00.master of the choristers. I Was Glad When They Said Unto Me has gone into
:11:00. > :11:06.the repertoire of choristers, it is sung all over the world. It is about
:11:06. > :11:16.going into the House of Lords, a very appropriate piece for any grand
:11:16. > :11:18.
:11:18. > :11:24.entrance or any occasion in church. -- going into the house of the
:11:24. > :11:29.Lord. What made it particular was the incorporation of the
:11:29. > :11:33.acclamations shouted to the pneumonic by the Queen's scholars of
:11:33. > :11:42.Westminster School and the idea was that they would have occurred as the
:11:42. > :11:47.monarch entered the choir of the abbey. So this is Parry taking
:11:47. > :11:53.originally what was more or less a shout, and acclamation, and writing
:11:53. > :12:03.it into his piece. The scholars will sing those to welcome the Queen
:12:03. > :12:21.
:12:21. > :12:25.today, the first time that has coronation music was Doctor William
:12:25. > :12:30.Mackay, the organist and master of the choristers here at the abbey.
:12:30. > :12:37.One of his duties was to decide who would be in the choir and
:12:37. > :12:41.orchestra. 480 performers from all around the globe. These are the dots
:12:41. > :12:46.confirming they have attended every single rehearsal and there were no
:12:46. > :12:50.exceptions. In fact two professional musicians were excluded on
:12:50. > :12:55.Coronation Day because they had to miss one rehearsal for a performance
:12:55. > :13:01.at the Royal Festival Hall. For the lucky ones who made the grade, it
:13:01. > :13:06.was a unique occasion, still well remembered 60 years later. We were
:13:06. > :13:11.perched high on the specially constructed banks of seating and
:13:11. > :13:19.somebody else was sitting in our places in the choir stalls. Much
:13:19. > :13:24.better dressed! They had great finery, we just had normal ropes.
:13:24. > :13:30.But we have something in our ropes that was not usual and that was the
:13:30. > :13:37.supply of food which was supposed to last for a long day. I think we had
:13:37. > :13:43.ham sandwiches and barley sugars and an apple. Most of us polished bows
:13:43. > :13:48.off within the first few minutes. Amongst the pageantry, it was for
:13:48. > :13:55.many the music that made the music that made today so special. It was
:13:55. > :14:02.this massive sound. It wasn't just the Abbey choir, on the other side
:14:02. > :14:12.there was St Paul's and the other choirs as well, and the funfair to I
:14:12. > :14:22.Was Glad. The trumpeters put some welly behind it, didn't they?
:14:22. > :14:28.
:14:28. > :14:33.wonderful moments, the beginning of Zadok The Priest, when the choir
:14:34. > :14:38.smashes in with that. The music was hailed as a triumph and later that
:14:38. > :14:44.year William Mackay was knighted. There was one further honour, after
:14:44. > :14:53.his death his ashes were buried in the cloister near to the song
:14:53. > :14:57.school. Here in the abbey with me is James Wilkinson, an honorary Steward
:14:57. > :15:06.today but 60 years ago he was 11 years old and part of the Abbey
:15:06. > :15:09.choir. What are your memories of the day? It was a great day. The most
:15:09. > :15:14.important impact it made on me was the colour, because it was the first
:15:14. > :15:20.time the BBC had been in the Abbey. The television lights lit everything
:15:20. > :15:28.beautifully, the gold and blue carpets and the crimson mantles of
:15:28. > :15:33.the peers and peeresses. There were lots of Indian ma maharajahs with
:15:33. > :15:39.their jewels on, a fantastic site. And there were a huge number of
:15:39. > :15:44.performers weren't there? The Choir was 450 strong. They consisted
:15:44. > :15:47.mainly of the Abbey Choir and St Palm's crag Choir and the Chapel
:15:47. > :15:52.Royal Choir and representatives from other organisations, cathedrals and
:15:52. > :15:57.so on from around the country. the music on the day played such an
:15:57. > :16:02.important part and again it is going to play an important role today, and
:16:02. > :16:09.today there is new music helped by you and the Choir? One of the
:16:09. > :16:14.Coronation Choir from St Paul's, a chap called Peter Chapman wrote the
:16:14. > :16:18.music for this service. We tried to track down as many chorist
:16:18. > :16:21.choristers as we could find, and we found about 100. They were invited
:16:21. > :16:26.to contribute to this fund to commission the anthem. Many of them
:16:26. > :16:31.did, so we have this wonderful new anthem today by Bob Chilcot. And it
:16:31. > :16:37.has never been heard before has it? No, it is the first performance. It
:16:37. > :16:41.is quite grand, fairly modern but not too discordant. It will be a
:16:41. > :16:48.marvellous addition to the service. What does it mean to you to be here?
:16:48. > :16:53.It is a great moment, a sense of deja vu. The Abbey isn't as full as
:16:53. > :16:57.it was then. There were 2,000 people here today but on the day itself
:16:57. > :17:03.there were 8,000 people. They transformed the inside of the Abbey,
:17:03. > :17:07.building extra stands and so on, so it was a much big bigger
:17:07. > :17:12.congregation then. Thank you very much. And sitting in the
:17:12. > :17:16.congregation are some of those choristers and Bob Chilcot, the
:17:16. > :17:22.composer of this special anthem, The King Shall Rejoice in thy strength,
:17:22. > :17:28.which has been written for this service today paid for by those
:17:28. > :17:38.choristers and the choristers themselves will be sitting there.
:17:38. > :17:42.
:17:42. > :17:45.Lord Wallace of Saltaire is there. We'll hear the music later on. There
:17:45. > :17:54.are 2,000 people expected here this morning, quite unlike the
:17:54. > :17:59.Coronation, when the congregation was over 8,000. Ptolemy Dean is the
:17:59. > :18:07.surveyor of the fabric, the man in charge of maintaining the building,
:18:07. > :18:11.has been looking through the archive to see how the huge congregation was
:18:11. > :18:18.squeezed in here. In order to accommodate the sheer number of
:18:18. > :18:21.people that had to come to the Coronation they built a series of
:18:21. > :18:27.grandstands and closed the Abbey for five months. I have here some of the
:18:27. > :18:31.original plans and documents which showed what they did. I love this,
:18:31. > :18:41.classic 1950s type script, the place of crowning. And they commissioned
:18:41. > :18:42.
:18:42. > :18:47.the head of the Royal Academy schools, Henry Rushbury RA, the task
:18:47. > :18:52.of making the Abbey suitable for the Coronation. His watercolours are
:18:52. > :18:55.lovely, pictures ofcratsmen working away. In fact 500 people worked on
:18:56. > :19:00.the transformation. To protect delicate parts of the Abbey they
:19:00. > :19:06.covered the floor with three inches of wood and boxed in statues and
:19:06. > :19:12.sculptures. Then they could start on the massive grandstands. This is the
:19:12. > :19:17.Nave, which had an enormous gallery cascading down from the west window.
:19:17. > :19:26.The seats on the side aisles rising right up to the heads of the
:19:26. > :19:33.windows. Extraordinary. They even constructed a small railway up the
:19:33. > :19:38.aisle, with branch lines into the transept. It carried 450 tonnes of
:19:38. > :19:45.steel, over 3,000 tonnes of timber and enough scaffolding poles to
:19:45. > :19:52.reach from here to Paris! These photos are absolutely extraordinary.
:19:52. > :19:56.And they come as a bit of a shock. It dawns on you looking at this what
:19:56. > :20:01.a terrifying process this fitting out must have been. I would have
:20:01. > :20:08.hated to have been in charge of this, with the risks of something
:20:08. > :20:16.falling and damaging the Abbey. It is more akin to something you would
:20:16. > :20:23.find in a dockyard than a Cathedral. This is a foal io of plans of the
:20:23. > :20:27.Coronation -- follow io of plans of the Coronation drawings produced by
:20:27. > :20:32.the Ministry of Works in 1953. I love the way these plans show so
:20:32. > :20:37.clearly where everybody was sitting. You've got the Royal Gallery
:20:37. > :20:41.overlooking the altar. The peers down there in the South Transept and
:20:41. > :20:46.the peeresses in the North Transept over there. Once in their seats the
:20:46. > :20:49.8,000 or so guests had to stay in the Abbey for up to eight hours. To
:20:50. > :20:55.allow for this the organise others constructed Medical Centers,
:20:55. > :21:02.drinking fount ans and vast numbers of lav tress. What I really love
:21:02. > :21:10.about these plans is you look here and it says, job 52242. Yet another
:21:10. > :21:15.job for the Ministry of Works. moved now to St George's Chapel, the
:21:15. > :21:19.Coronation Chair. Ptolemy is here. And I'm joined by Clare Skinner, an
:21:19. > :21:23.actress who will be reading a poem during the service. First this
:21:23. > :21:29.chair, it is astounding isn't it? It is so old, it has seen so much
:21:29. > :21:33.history. It is wonderful to think of every monarch sitting on this chair
:21:33. > :21:38.since the 13th century. What I love about it is that it is so sort of
:21:38. > :21:43.bashed up. And yet in England, Scotland, Britain, we all see this
:21:43. > :21:47.as a cherished part of our heritage. We don't restore it and overtidy it
:21:48. > :21:52.up. We are proud of its battered, worn appearance. Your team, I've
:21:52. > :22:00.seen them hard at work over the years here in the chapel. There is a
:22:00. > :22:05.lot of graffiti on it. In the 18th century the schoolchildren of
:22:05. > :22:10.Westminster School merrily carved their name on it. Children are
:22:10. > :22:16.children aren't they. It hasn't been tarted up and made to look new. You
:22:16. > :22:23.can see the old patterns of painting and decoration through the later
:22:23. > :22:26.layers of graffiti. What did it look like in the one 300s? It was a
:22:26. > :22:31.gleaming golden thing. You can look at the shape of the chair. It is
:22:31. > :22:36.similar to the architecture of the building in which it sits. It is a
:22:36. > :22:43.timber version of the stone Abbey itself. The finials would have been
:22:43. > :22:47.far finer. One of them has been broken off and put back. When Queen
:22:47. > :22:53.Victoria was crowned here she had it painted brown. Happily all of that
:22:53. > :22:58.brown has come off. And the Queen is going to look later? Yes, I hope she
:22:58. > :23:02.recognises it from 60 years ago. this beautiful canopy as well?
:23:02. > :23:06.During the Coronation ceremony there is an amazing moment when the
:23:06. > :23:11.courtiers come rushing with a canopy supported on very fine poles. It
:23:11. > :23:15.goes over the crown and over the chair and over the King or Queen.
:23:16. > :23:23.They anoint under this special awning. This awning here is to try
:23:23. > :23:27.and remember that, but not look like a four poster bed. It has very thin
:23:27. > :23:34.legs so it doesn't look like a ghastly Cotswolds hotel. And Clare
:23:34. > :23:40.Skinner, you have a very special role today? Yes, I'm reading the
:23:40. > :23:44.poem by Carol Ann Duffy called the Union. It is brand-new, hot off the
:23:44. > :23:48.press, never read before, very exciting. And you will reading it
:23:49. > :23:53.here? Yes, by the chair. It is incredibly exciting and a huge
:23:53. > :23:58.honour for me. It is slightly funny, because it will all be going on down
:23:58. > :24:03.there and you are back here. rather pleased I'm back here, it
:24:03. > :24:09.feels safer in a strange way. you ever performed for the Queen
:24:09. > :24:17.before? Of I have, on one of her anniversaries. I did a scene from
:24:17. > :24:21.Romeo and Juliet at the Festival Hall for her. I can't remember which
:24:21. > :24:26.an -- which anniversary it was. Thank you very much.
:24:26. > :24:29.Clare Skinner there, who you may recognise better perhaps from seeing
:24:29. > :24:34.her on the television programme Outnumbered. That's where I
:24:34. > :24:37.recognise her from. Now, here in the Abbey we are still
:24:37. > :24:42.waiting for this congregation to fill up. We are waiting for the
:24:42. > :24:48.maids op honour to come here, the maids of honour who attended the
:24:48. > :24:53.Queen at the Coronation, sitting in the front here, all of them titled.
:24:53. > :25:03.Now Lady Campbell. They've changed their names through marriage. Lady
:25:03. > :25:08.Glenconner, Lady Muir, Lady will by and Lady Mary Russell. They were is
:25:08. > :25:16.six young women who held the corners of the Queen's train as she came
:25:16. > :25:25.into the Abbey. They are sitting beside the Royal Family. No doubt
:25:25. > :25:31.vividly remembering what it was like to be here on the second June 1953.
:25:31. > :25:37.What I remember most still about the day, quite funnily, was that it was
:25:37. > :25:42.horribly cold. The weather was awful. I believe it was two degrees
:25:42. > :25:48.colder than it became in December of that year. But it didn't stop people
:25:48. > :25:52.sleeping in the streets, determined not to miss the opportunity of
:25:52. > :25:59.seeing this fairy-tale procession. Into the forecourt of the Palace and
:25:59. > :26:03.through the gates comes the gilding coach... I was a Junior Footman in
:26:03. > :26:08.those days. After breakfast I went up to my room and started to powder
:26:08. > :26:14.my hair, which consisted of lathering your hair with soap,
:26:14. > :26:21.leaving the soap in the hair and then sprinkling it with flour and
:26:21. > :26:26.shaping it like a wig. And then my role was to walk by the left hand
:26:26. > :26:32.wheel on the Duke of Edinburgh's side of the carriage. Absolutely
:26:32. > :26:36.incredible. As the coach went through the arch to go down the Mall
:26:36. > :26:45.it was just a roar of the people. It was something I believe never forget
:26:45. > :26:51.really. I was having my second baby, which was very unhandy at that
:26:51. > :26:57.moment, but I wore my wedding dress, which was a lovely brocade, which
:26:57. > :27:03.had been severely let out, for various bits of my anatomy. We had
:27:03. > :27:09.to be there terribly early in the morning. The Abbey of course was
:27:09. > :27:16.looking quite marvellous, shining and glittering and full of people.
:27:16. > :27:20.The peers were all wearing their robes. There was quite a smell of
:27:20. > :27:28.mothballs about, because they had all been put away for the whole of
:27:28. > :27:35.the war. It was very noisy, everyone was talking, but we were all in our
:27:35. > :27:41.seats, so once the doors opened, it was a hush that came over everybody.
:27:41. > :27:48.Everybody was expectant. It just went all very quiet. Everyone was
:27:48. > :27:54.turning, waiting for her to come down. It was a magical moment.
:27:54. > :27:59.stood and we picked the train up. It had little satin handles underneath
:27:59. > :28:04.and the train rippled over our hands. We all stood there and she
:28:04. > :28:09.turned and said, "Ready girls?" And we said yes and off we went. They
:28:09. > :28:12.were the first pictures. The second picture as few steps further in. The
:28:12. > :28:18.atmosphere had changed a. From our point of view we were working. As
:28:18. > :28:25.soon as the doors opened we were working, but it was fun, fast and
:28:25. > :28:33.there was so much to do. It was an exciting atmosphere. Receive the rod
:28:33. > :28:37.of equity and mercy. To see the Queen looking so fragile, young and
:28:37. > :28:43.defenceless somehow, with all the regalia going on around her, and
:28:44. > :28:49.that little lonely figure standing there. It was terribly moving. It
:28:49. > :28:59.was somebody who knew but in a totally new light, which always
:28:59. > :29:10.
:29:10. > :29:16.changes everything. God God Save The life. People often say your wedding
:29:16. > :29:20.must have been wonderful I say well it was, but in a different way. To
:29:20. > :29:30.be chosen to be a Maid of Honour at the Queen's Coronation was the most
:29:30. > :29:35.
:29:36. > :29:43.amazing, wonderful day of my life. Along with many other people who
:29:43. > :29:47.were involved in the '53 Coronation John and Joan Taylor sitting there.
:29:47. > :29:54.Part of the congregation. And in the front just to the right of your
:29:54. > :29:57.screen in beige with the black stripes on her dress Prince Charles
:29:57. > :30:01.the Prince of Wales's nanny at the time of the Coronation. Mabel
:30:01. > :30:06.Anderson, who was with him at the window of Buckingham Palace. A
:30:06. > :30:10.wonderful picture you must have seen of him waving excitedly as he sees
:30:10. > :30:15.the Queen's coach coming back to Buckingham Palace. You can glimpse
:30:16. > :30:20.the other nannies behind. She is here for the service. Prince Charles
:30:20. > :30:24.of course was the youngest person to be invited to the Abbey in 1953,
:30:24. > :30:34.only four years old. He hasn't arrived yet but he and other members
:30:34. > :30:37.
:30:37. > :30:42.of the Royal Family will be with us shortly. He was only four years old,
:30:42. > :30:46.and difficult guest to fit in so young. Sophie Raworth went to
:30:46. > :30:55.Buckingham Palace to see how he was made to feel that his mother's
:30:55. > :31:05.coronation was a special day for as well. So this is the throne? Yes,
:31:05. > :31:09.
:31:09. > :31:15.this is the throne room. And this is Prince Charles' invitation. There is
:31:15. > :31:20.a wonderful playfulness about it. Yes, you could see how the design
:31:20. > :31:25.would appeal to a four-year-old boy, and it was designed by an
:31:25. > :31:33.illustrator and she won the competition to design the official
:31:34. > :31:39.invitation to -- that went to all of the guests. Here she has done
:31:39. > :31:45.something slightly different and charming, and incorporated a lot of
:31:45. > :31:51.the formal aspects like the lion and the unicorn, and the royal coat of
:31:51. > :31:57.arms. This is something Prince Charles must treasure. I think so,
:31:57. > :32:03.it is a very special treasured possession. And over here you can
:32:03. > :32:12.see what they wore. Yes, a little silk shirt and matching cream
:32:12. > :32:22.trousers, just trimmed with this beautiful lace. That actually
:32:22. > :32:29.
:32:29. > :32:38.matches on this little dress which the two-year-old Princess Anne war.
:32:38. > :32:45.-- wore. And you can see from the size of the shoes how small they
:32:45. > :32:49.were. Yes, the Queen was a young mother, 27 years old and she had
:32:49. > :32:56.small children. And you are getting together an exhibition which the
:32:56. > :33:02.public will be able to see? Yes, the public will not only be able to see
:33:02. > :33:12.these charming outfits, but a whole array of outfits from other members
:33:12. > :33:12.
:33:12. > :33:17.of the Royal family. Here they are, these two small, tiny figures. Four
:33:17. > :33:21.years old and two years old, and a wonderful story about how when they
:33:21. > :33:26.got back to Buckingham Palace, they ran up and down the corridors of
:33:26. > :33:31.Buckingham Palace with the Queen 's mother trying to get a ride on her
:33:31. > :33:37.long train. Of course, no small young royals at the service today,
:33:37. > :33:45.but there is one on the way. There are many representatives of
:33:45. > :33:52.Christian churches here in the abbey today, but this procession going up
:33:52. > :34:02.the aisle now has representatives of other religious faiths, including
:34:02. > :34:05.
:34:05. > :34:09.the Shia Muslims and Sunni Muslims, Buddhists, Sikhs, the orthodox
:34:09. > :34:15.Jewish among others, and they will be sitting opposite the Queen and
:34:15. > :34:21.the Royal family. And then for the Christian churches, there are Roman
:34:21. > :34:25.Catholic, free churches in Wales, the General assembly the of
:34:25. > :34:35.Scotland, the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, the free churches, the
:34:35. > :34:37.
:34:37. > :34:43.Methodist church, and members of the Queen's ecclesiastical householders
:34:43. > :34:48.well. The Dean of Windsor, the Bishop of Worcester, the Bishop of
:34:48. > :34:58.Guilford, the Bishop of London who will be saying one of the prayers.
:34:58. > :35:01.
:35:01. > :35:11.With all its pomp and pageantry, the coronation is it hard focused on the
:35:11. > :35:15.
:35:15. > :35:19.duty of Merck to God and the people. -- monarch. The months before the
:35:19. > :35:26.ceremony, the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Jeremy Fisher, gave the
:35:26. > :35:34.Queen a Little book of private devotions containing daily prayers
:35:34. > :35:39.and meditations. Here, reflecting, are the Dean of Westminster and the
:35:39. > :35:44.Archbishop of Canterbury, who will be delivering the sermon. One of the
:35:44. > :35:50.most striking things about the coronation service in 1953 was the
:35:50. > :36:00.way it combined and held together the religious and the official role
:36:00. > :36:03.of the monarch. At the same time, the Queen becomes head of state and
:36:03. > :36:08.supreme Governor of the Church of England, so at the beginning of the
:36:08. > :36:12.service the Queen comes into Westminster Abbey and kneels in
:36:12. > :36:16.private prayer. That is saying that the first thing she does before
:36:16. > :36:23.varies all of the secular part of people giving their allegiance to
:36:23. > :36:27.her, she acknowledges the sovereignty of God and the
:36:27. > :36:35.allegiance she owes to God. anointing in the coronation is a
:36:35. > :36:40.setting apart of the service, the service of God and the service of
:36:40. > :36:46.the nation. Nobody would be in any doubt of the importance of that
:36:46. > :36:51.moment for the Queen, nor in any doubt about the way in which she has
:36:51. > :36:55.fulfilled that commitments so strongly, so powerfully during the
:36:55. > :36:59.60 years since it took place. It is a moment of great celebration as
:36:59. > :37:09.well as reflection, and a time to ask questions about our own service
:37:09. > :37:14.as well. The Duke and Duchess of Kent, the members of the Royal
:37:14. > :37:22.family arriving now. The Duke of Kent was 17 at the time of the
:37:22. > :37:32.coronation, he was there with his mother, Princess Marina, and his
:37:32. > :37:45.
:37:45. > :37:50.because these members of the Royal family are coming just to be members
:37:50. > :38:00.of the congregation. They play no active part in the service so the
:38:00. > :38:04.
:38:04. > :38:13.verger conducts them up the aisle. Nobody stands. There will be the
:38:13. > :38:20.Duke and Duchess of Gloucester next. All through this organ music
:38:20. > :38:30.played before the service by the assistant organist here, they are
:38:30. > :38:49.
:38:49. > :38:59.playing from Stamford, Bach, Handel going through the choir. The choir
:38:59. > :39:03.
:39:03. > :39:13.stalls themselves empty. The choir arrives later, the combined choirs
:39:13. > :39:50.
:39:50. > :39:57.of St Paul's and Westminster Abbey guest reading from the book of
:39:57. > :40:07.Kings. The Duke of Gloucester and the Duchess of Gloucester. He was
:40:07. > :40:32.
:40:32. > :40:42.eight years old at the time of the faiths, sitting facing the Queen. We
:40:42. > :41:00.
:41:00. > :41:10.coronation in 1953. Brilliant sunshine in London, bells ringing,
:41:10. > :41:11.
:41:11. > :41:15.and they will be a special peal of bells ringing at 2:30pm. The bells
:41:15. > :41:22.ringing now, waiting for the arrival of the rest of the Royal family. We
:41:22. > :41:26.are waiting in particular for the front row, as you might say, of the
:41:26. > :41:31.family. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Henry of Wales,
:41:31. > :41:35.the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, and they all arrive
:41:35. > :41:39.before the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. For the arrival of the
:41:39. > :41:49.Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, there will be a proper procession up
:41:49. > :41:59.the aisle as the great song, the hymn or the anthem, I don't know
:41:59. > :41:59.
:41:59. > :42:05.what you call it, I Was Glad When They Said Unto Me is played. The
:42:05. > :42:12.Crown sitting there as a reminder of that day back in June 60 years ago,
:42:12. > :42:19.when the Queen briefly wore it. And a little gold eagle below, which
:42:19. > :42:24.carried the consecrated oil with which she was anointed. The clergy
:42:24. > :42:29.are sitting in their place. They will be reading prayers during the
:42:29. > :42:34.service, which takes a very simple form. There is a great deal of
:42:34. > :42:40.music, there will be a sermon by the new Archbishop of Canterbury, and
:42:40. > :42:50.there will be prayers, but no complicated ceremonial. Just a
:42:50. > :42:53.
:42:53. > :42:58.simple celebration of the events of 60 years passed. The coats they are
:42:58. > :43:05.wearing were specially made for the coronation, the Dean on the right,
:43:05. > :43:11.who will be taking the service. Doctor John Hall. They haven't won
:43:11. > :43:21.these since they wore them ten years ago for the 50th anniversary of the
:43:21. > :43:24.
:43:24. > :43:34.coronation. They are waiting at the west end of the Abbey. Waiting to
:43:34. > :44:02.
:44:02. > :44:08.greet the Royal family as they Archbishop of Canterbury, newly
:44:08. > :44:13.appointed just in November last year and officially became archbishop in
:44:13. > :44:23.February this year. This is his first big state occasions since his
:44:23. > :44:57.
:44:57. > :45:01.appointment, and as I said earlier think there was one just there,
:45:01. > :45:05.television sets showing these pictures to the congregation. Though
:45:05. > :45:15.I said the Abbey was built so that everybody would see the moment of
:45:15. > :45:37.
:45:37. > :45:39.the Coronation, in reality the arms of the church, the ran accepts, the
:45:39. > :45:41.Nave are cut off from the main activities by the screen in the case
:45:41. > :45:43.of the Nave and as a result many people come here only see a tiny
:45:43. > :45:53.fraction of the service. The organ, which is playing now and will be
:45:53. > :46:17.
:46:17. > :46:18.thundering out to the entrance of the Queen.
:46:18. > :46:20.The organ here has had distinguished organists play here, Henry Purcell
:46:20. > :46:21.perhaps in particular, who died I think aged 36. He was such a great
:46:21. > :46:28.musician that the previous organist gave way for him to allow him to
:46:28. > :46:38.play and then took over again after his death. The King's scholars don't
:46:38. > :46:39.
:46:39. > :46:44.sing but have to shout out vivat Regina! And at the State Opening of
:46:44. > :46:54.Parliament they cheer the Queen. The Westminster School, its chairman is
:46:54. > :46:54.
:46:55. > :47:03.the Dean of Westminster, so it is closely tied in with this Abbey. We
:47:03. > :47:12.are waiting here for the next arrivals. The Duke of York I think
:47:12. > :47:18.is next. The Prime Minister has still to arrive. The music is
:47:18. > :47:24.playing and the atmosphere inside the Abbey now is quiet and calm.
:47:24. > :47:30.These services are beautifully organise organised. The simple
:47:30. > :47:35.pageantry written in these books, which has in it an explanation of
:47:35. > :47:43.what the service is and what the rituals of the Coronation were for
:47:43. > :47:53.people to read while they sit here waiting. Prince and Princess Michael
:47:53. > :48:23.
:48:23. > :48:30.his wife, and now a whole gathering of members of the Royal Family being
:48:30. > :48:40.greeted at the door. The Duke of York, his daughters Princess
:48:40. > :48:44.Beatrice and Eugenie there. Briefly greeted by the clergy of the Abbey.
:48:44. > :48:50.Welcomed to the Abbey, which is under the control of the Royal
:48:50. > :49:00.Family, of the Queen rather, and there's the Archbishop of Canterbury
:49:00. > :49:01.
:49:01. > :49:06.greeting them. This is what's called a church peculiar, the only person
:49:06. > :49:12.with control over it is Her Majesty the Queen. They are escorted by the
:49:12. > :49:22.Duke of York. And Zara Phillips or Tindall as she now is with her
:49:22. > :49:35.
:49:35. > :49:45.husband, Mike Tindall, the rugby And now the Duke and Duchess of
:49:45. > :49:45.
:49:45. > :50:31.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 45 seconds
:50:31. > :50:41.Cambridge and Prince Harry. All eyes Archbishop. Next to him is Sir
:50:41. > :51:02.
:51:02. > :51:06.who will be reading here. He will be escorted to the quire, where he will
:51:06. > :51:16.take the seat occupied by Sir Winston Churchill at the Coronation,
:51:16. > :51:52.
:51:52. > :52:00.William and Kate, who were married here just a couple of years ago.
:52:01. > :52:10.Kate walking with her brother-in-law. The Royal Family is
:52:11. > :52:11.
:52:11. > :52:16.now all seated on the right, as the Choir of Westminster Abbey and the
:52:16. > :52:23.Choir of the Chapel Royal, the boys dressed in their scarlet and gold
:52:23. > :52:33.state coats, designed at the time of the Restoration. They move to take
:52:33. > :52:33.
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:53:29. > :53:34.take the ground. Two officers, two Sergeant Majors, 12 Yeomen. They
:53:34. > :53:39.marched on each side of the gold coach at the Coronation, right the
:53:39. > :53:45.way through the long, long procession that took them to
:53:45. > :53:52.Buckingham Palace. And then after them the honourable Corp of
:53:52. > :53:59.Gentlemen at Arms, the so-called Nearest Guard. The Yeomen of the
:53:59. > :54:04.Guard have their partisans, which you see at the State Opening of
:54:04. > :54:10.Parliament and other events. They take their place with in the Nave.
:54:10. > :54:16.And now with the white swans' feathers in the hat the nearest
:54:17. > :54:23.guard, they were formed way back by Henry VIII, in 1509, from the sons
:54:23. > :54:33.of noblemen. They are now former Army officer officers or members of
:54:33. > :54:33.
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:55:38. > :55:46.left, Lady Louise, a very exciting take their place. We are now
:55:46. > :55:53.awaiting for the next arrival. The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of
:55:53. > :56:00.Cornwall, Camilla. They are greeted by the Dean and the Sub-Dean, Robert
:56:00. > :56:05.Reiss. They will wait here at the West End of the Abbey for the
:56:05. > :56:12.arrival of Her Majesty the Queen. Then the four of them, and the Duke
:56:12. > :56:18.of Edinburgh, if he comes here this morning, I know he was not well
:56:18. > :56:27.yesterday, but it is said he will be here this morning. The four of them
:56:27. > :56:34.will process up the Nave, with the Archbishop of Canterbury leading,
:56:34. > :56:39.the Westminster cross and the Canons of Westminster, the people who run
:56:39. > :56:44.the Cathedral, and the Dean and then the Royal Family. They will wait
:56:44. > :56:50.here in what's called waiting on Churchill, because the place they
:56:50. > :57:00.stand is Winston Churchill's memorial, which is just to the west
:57:00. > :57:00.
:57:00. > :57:10.of the tomb of the Unknown Warrior. It is now just after five minutes to
:57:10. > :57:32.
:57:32. > :57:37.11. We shortly will expect the Queen caught a glimpse of are going back
:57:37. > :57:47.to the outer door, to await the arrival of the Queen. The Princess
:57:47. > :57:52.
:57:52. > :57:57.Royal there. And her husband. The service Prince Charles attended when
:57:57. > :58:01.he was aged four, I wonder how much he remembers of it and I wonder how
:58:01. > :58:06.different when he becomes the sovereign, if he becomes the
:58:06. > :58:10.sovereign, how different the service will be from the one we saw six zero
:58:10. > :58:16.years ago today with all that astonishing pageantry. He may
:58:16. > :58:21.perhaps remember what he saw from Buckingham Palace window. The
:58:21. > :58:31.massive parade after the service taking his mother back to Buckingham
:58:31. > :59:00.
:59:00. > :59:10.Palace. As it circled the Victoria Queen enters Abbey, is this great,
:59:10. > :59:11.
:59:11. > :59:14.glorious music, I Was Glad, by Hubert Parry. And that is a
:59:14. > :59:20.stupendous moment when the whole atmosphere here in the Abbey will
:59:20. > :59:26.change from this casual, informal, the Prince and Camilla chatting, and
:59:26. > :59:29.waiting for the thing to start, but once it starts, the trumpeters of
:59:29. > :59:34.the Welsh Guards will be playing, the organ will be thundering and the
:59:34. > :59:44.Choir will be singing their hearts out. Even the Queen's Scholars at
:59:44. > :00:15.
:00:15. > :00:22.Westminster waiting to shout out vivat Regina. A single police
:00:22. > :00:23.motorcycle marks the arrival of the Queen's car. Again, very little
:00:23. > :00:33.formality. Nothing like what formality. Nothing like what
:00:33. > :00:52.
:00:52. > :01:00.here. Despite not being well last night, but they said he would be
:01:00. > :01:10.here and he is here, smiling, talking to the Dean and the sub
:01:10. > :01:12.
:01:12. > :01:22.Dean. The bells ringing, and in a moment she will enter the race --
:01:22. > :01:22.
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:02:06. > :02:16.the abbey for this service of we will go into the house of the
:02:16. > :02:16.
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:04:57. > :05:06.O Jerusalem # Jerusalem is built as # Vivat Regina Elizabetha! # Vivat!
:05:07. > :05:07.
:05:07. > :07:05.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 45 seconds
:07:05. > :07:15.# Vivat Regina Ellizabetha! they shall prosper that love thee #
:07:15. > :07:23.
:07:23. > :07:33.Peace be within thy walls, and plenteousness within thy palaces #
:07:33. > :07:40.
:07:40. > :07:43.For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will wish thee prosperity #
:07:44. > :07:53.Yea, because of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek to do thee
:07:54. > :08:14.
:08:14. > :08:19.high altar gives the bidding. 60 years ago in this holy place,
:08:19. > :08:24.Queen Elizabeth II was anointed with holy oil, clothed with sacred
:08:24. > :08:31.garments, and after receiving symbols of authority, crowned with
:08:31. > :08:37.the crown of Saint Edward, King and Confessor, just as Her Majesty's
:08:37. > :08:43.royal predecessors from 1066. Here today, we gather to give thanks to
:08:43. > :08:49.Almighty God for the faithful ministry and dutiful service the
:08:49. > :08:55.Queen continues to offer God and the people of this nation, the overseas
:08:55. > :08:59.territories and the realms, and as head of the Commonwealth. As we pray
:08:59. > :09:08.for her Majesty, for the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales, and
:09:08. > :09:12.other members of the Royal family in health and wealth long to live and
:09:12. > :09:19.for peace and prosperity throughout these lands, so shall we pray for
:09:19. > :09:22.the grace of God that we, too, may offer our lives in faithful service
:09:22. > :09:32.and wholehearted commitment for the good of our communities and
:09:32. > :09:37.
:09:37. > :09:43.nations. Let us pray. Almighty God, who threw anointing with the oil of
:09:43. > :09:52.gladness at the hands of priests and profits strengthens thy chosen
:09:52. > :09:56.servants with the gift of thy holy spirit. Be pleased to accept our
:09:56. > :10:00.holy praise as with united voice we give thanks for the long and
:10:00. > :10:08.glorious reign of our sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth, and to receive our
:10:08. > :10:14.humble prayer that by renewing thy blessings, they will pour upon her
:10:14. > :10:20.die choice gifts and upon all thy people the spirit of humility and
:10:20. > :10:30.servers shown forth in the life and death of him who is the United
:10:30. > :10:30.
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:12:11. > :12:14.Kingdom of all, our Lord and save our noble Queen God save our
:12:14. > :12:17.gracious Queen, Long live our noble Queen, God save the Queen! Send her
:12:17. > :12:27.victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to reign over us, God save the
:12:27. > :12:42.
:12:42. > :12:48.Priest, and they came before the king. The King also said to them,
:12:48. > :12:58.take with you the servants of the Lord and calls Solomon my son to
:12:58. > :13:01.
:13:01. > :13:06.ride upon my own mule and bring him down, and let them be anointed king
:13:06. > :13:16.over Israel. And blow with the trumpet and say God save King
:13:16. > :13:16.
:13:16. > :13:22.Solomon. Then you shall come up after him, to sit upon my throne for
:13:22. > :13:32.he shall be king in my stead and I have appointed him to be ruler over
:13:32. > :13:44.
:13:44. > :13:54.Israel. And Benaiah answered the King, my people say so, too. Make
:13:54. > :14:02.his throne greater than my lord, King David. So Zadok the Priest, and
:14:02. > :14:11.Nathan the profit, and Benaiah went down and calls Solomon to ride upon
:14:11. > :14:18.King David's mule. Zadok the Priest Took oil out of the Tabernacle and
:14:18. > :14:25.anointed Solomon, and they blew the trumpet, and all the people said God
:14:25. > :14:30.save King Solomon. And all the people came up after him, and the
:14:30. > :14:40.people piped with pipes and rejoiced with great joy so that the Earth
:14:40. > :14:40.
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:15:26. > :15:31.# Behold O God our defend defender; As the Choir sings the motet Behold
:15:31. > :15:36.O God, a procession representing all generations is escorting here a
:15:36. > :15:41.flask of oil from theest end of the Abbey which is going to be placed on
:15:41. > :15:45.the High Altar in acknowledgement of the service the Queen has given
:15:45. > :15:49.since she was anointed at the Coronation, in one of most sacred
:15:49. > :15:55.moments of that service when she dedicated herself to God and the
:15:55. > :16:03.people. In that procession carrying the oil the Queen's guide, who is
:16:03. > :16:08.training to be a Methodist Minister. Either side are two children. Behind
:16:08. > :16:15.them the Warrant Officer from the Royal Navy and a nurse. Behind them
:16:15. > :16:23.in yellow the lollipop Lady and Dr Jacqueline Coburn, a teacher a. The
:16:23. > :16:28.judge, Mr Justice Cook, and Lord Wallace after Saltaire, who sang
:16:28. > :16:34.here during the Coronation and two Chelsea Pensioners. Aged from six to
:16:34. > :16:39.their 90s, carrying this oil to the altar to be placed on the altar in
:16:39. > :16:49.memory of that moment that most sacred moment in the Coronation
:16:49. > :16:49.
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:18:34. > :18:37.Dean, and the Dean will place it on the Coronation of Elizabeth our
:18:37. > :18:44.Queen didst set her apart for thy service, anointing her with thy Holy
:18:44. > :18:46.Spirit: grant, we beseech thee, that strengthened by thy seven-fold gifts
:18:46. > :18:56.we may likewise always remain faithful to our calling and active
:18:56. > :19:13.
:19:13. > :19:20.in thy service; through Jesus Christ Commonwealth, Kamalesh Sharma will
:19:20. > :19:23.read from St Mark. James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come unto him,
:19:23. > :19:27.saying, Master, we would that thou shouldest do for us whatsoever shall
:19:27. > :19:31.desire. And he said unto them, 'What would ye that I should do for you?'
:19:31. > :19:41.They said unto him, "Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right
:19:41. > :19:43.
:19:43. > :19:50.hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory." But Jesus said
:19:50. > :19:57.unto them, "Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink of the cup that I drink
:19:57. > :20:03.of? And be baptised with the baptism that I am baptised with?" And they
:20:03. > :20:06.said unto him, "We can." And Jesus said unto them, "Ye shall indeed
:20:06. > :20:14.drink of the cup that I drink of; and with the baptism that I am
:20:14. > :20:18.baptized withal shall ye be baptised: But to sit on my right
:20:18. > :20:26.hand and on my left hand is not mine to give, but it shall be given to
:20:27. > :20:36.them for whom it is prepared. And when the ten heard it, they began to
:20:37. > :20:42.
:20:42. > :20:46.be much displeased with James and John. But Jesus called them to him,
:20:46. > :20:48.and saith unto them, "Ye know that they which are accounted to rule
:20:48. > :20:55.ofer the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones
:20:55. > :21:01.exercise authority upon them. But so shall it not be among you: but
:21:01. > :21:10.whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister: And
:21:10. > :21:13.whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.
:21:13. > :21:23.For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister,
:21:23. > :21:35.
:21:35. > :21:39.and to give his life a ransom for many. And now the only himself sung
:21:39. > :21:49.at the Coronation, by Vaughan Williams, his version of all people
:21:49. > :22:03.
:22:03. > :22:13.# All people that on earth do dwell. # Sing to the Lord with cheerful
:22:13. > :22:22.
:22:22. > :22:32.voice. # Him serve with fear, his praise forth tell. # Come ye before
:22:32. > :23:05.
:23:05. > :23:15.# Without our aid he did us make. # We are his folk, he doth us feed. #
:23:15. > :23:39.
:23:39. > :23:49.praise. # Approach with joy his courts unto. # Praise, laud, and
:23:49. > :24:22.
:24:22. > :24:32.bless his name always. # For it is # His mercy is for ever sure. # His
:24:32. > :24:32.
:24:32. > :25:16.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 45 seconds
:25:16. > :25:24.truth at all times firmly stood. # # The God who whom Heaven and Earth
:25:24. > :25:34.adore From men and from the angel host
:25:34. > :25:34.
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:26:18. > :26:21.Be praise and glory evermore. And now the address given to the
:26:21. > :26:31.Archbishop. In the name of the father, the son
:26:31. > :26:52.
:26:52. > :26:56.time the whole nation had watched anything as it happened. But this
:26:56. > :27:06.they saw. Pomp and ceremony on a rainy, June day, all so very
:27:06. > :27:11.British, wrapped in time and custom. Very British. At its beginning was a
:27:11. > :27:14.moment of deepest meaning we have almost forgotten. The figure at the
:27:14. > :27:24.centre of events, the new Queen, goes alone, not to the throne, but
:27:24. > :27:25.
:27:25. > :27:28.past it: to kneel at the altar in prayer. Before her on the High Altar
:27:28. > :27:38.the words "The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of
:27:38. > :27:49.
:27:49. > :27:53.our Lord and of his Christ." We do not know what was prayed. Her
:27:53. > :27:56.Majesty knelt at the beginning of a path of demanding devotion and utter
:27:56. > :27:59.self-sacrifice: a path she did not choose, yet to which she was called
:27:59. > :28:09.by God. Today we celebrate sixty years since that moment: sixty years
:28:09. > :28:09.
:28:09. > :28:12.of whole-hearted commitment and faithfulness. There was a trumpet
:28:12. > :28:15.fanfare as the Queen arrived with her supporters, but let us resist
:28:15. > :28:25.the splendour of the spectacle for a moment, and focus on what was meant:
:28:25. > :28:28.
:28:28. > :28:30."Not my will, Lord, but yours be done." Following her giving of
:28:30. > :28:40.allegiance to God, so others, including the Duke of Edinburgh,
:28:40. > :28:42.
:28:42. > :28:51.pledged their allegiance to her. Here, in the grace and providence of
:28:51. > :29:01.God, is the model of authority - and liberty - which our country enjoys.
:29:01. > :29:04.Liberty is only real when it exists under authority. It begins, as the
:29:04. > :29:12.Book of Common Prayer puts it, with our duty to God, "whose service is
:29:12. > :29:22.perfect freedom". We live in a hierarchy of authority that ascends
:29:22. > :29:25.
:29:25. > :29:28.to God's limitless love. As we see in the life of Jesus, with God
:29:28. > :29:31.justice and mercy are perfectly joined, wisdom is unlimited,
:29:31. > :29:41.generosity is unstinting, and love pours out to the whole world in an
:29:41. > :29:46.
:29:46. > :29:49.overwhelming embrace that is offered universally and abundantly. A nation
:29:49. > :29:52.that crowns its head of state with such a model of liberty under
:29:52. > :30:01.authority expresses commitment to the same glorious objectives for
:30:01. > :30:07.society. In those moments of prayer are symbolised the basis for the
:30:07. > :30:12.greatness of this country. In their silence lies God's call. In their
:30:12. > :30:19.humility lies God's authority. In their resulting service lies God's
:30:19. > :30:29.perfect freedom. What follows is the joy of security that comes from
:30:29. > :30:34.
:30:34. > :30:39.obeying God alone. Such consecration to God is followed by a crown: When
:30:40. > :30:43.we obey God's call, whoever we are, leading Government or quietly
:30:43. > :30:53.sevening our local community we are establish a country that is open
:30:53. > :30:56.handed and open hearted, serving others with joy. In such service we
:30:56. > :31:04.become Britain at its best. We know how to celebrate - as again last
:31:04. > :31:09.year in the Olympics. We know how to comfort and grieve - as on the
:31:09. > :31:15.streets of Woolwich, in the courage of passers-by and police. Yet we are
:31:15. > :31:18.not always or everywhere at our best. We celebrate today not liberty
:31:18. > :31:27.by itself, which in human weakness turns to selfishness, but liberty
:31:27. > :31:34.under the authority of God. We are never more free, nor better than
:31:34. > :31:40.when we are under the authority of God. The coronation was an
:31:40. > :31:42.ordination, a setting aside of a person for service. Once anointed,
:31:42. > :31:51.Her Majesty received symbols, symbols so monumental that they are
:31:51. > :31:58.only bearable by the grace and strength of God. They were symbols
:31:58. > :32:08.of service as well as leadership and authority. Hear the words spoken to
:32:08. > :32:12.
:32:12. > :32:17.Her Majesty as she received the sword: With this sort do justice,
:32:17. > :32:22.protect the holy Church of God, help and defend widows and orphans,
:32:22. > :32:27.restore the things that are gone to decay, maintain the things that are
:32:27. > :32:34.restored. Polish and reform what is amiss, and confirm what is in good
:32:34. > :32:38.order, that doing these things you may be glorious in all virtue, and
:32:38. > :32:48.so faithfully serve our Lord Jesus Christ in this life that you may
:32:48. > :32:51.
:32:51. > :32:55.reign for ever with him in the life which is to come. Small tasks, tasks
:32:55. > :33:02.that are shared and renewed in a free democracy under authority. The
:33:02. > :33:07.symbols and words point us to our deepest understanding of the nature
:33:07. > :33:14.of power which is found neither in pomp and circumstance nor in public
:33:14. > :33:22.displays, but in radical commitment, single-minded devotion and servant
:33:23. > :33:28.leadership. And for that we give thanks today. The very nature of
:33:28. > :33:34.being British follows this simple logic. It is founded on liberty
:33:34. > :33:39.under authority. It imitates the example of Jesus who did not count
:33:39. > :33:45.equality with God thing to be grasped, but humbled himself and
:33:45. > :33:53.took the form of a slave. In Jesus is seen the greatest servant of
:33:53. > :34:00.all, whose service gives us freedom, whose love is generously
:34:00. > :34:05.offered to each of us. Her Majesty the Queen is servant of the King of
:34:05. > :34:11.Kings and so she serves us as we serve her in liberty and under
:34:11. > :34:21.authority. It is a system that points to freedom in God, in whose
:34:21. > :34:25.
:34:25. > :34:29.love alone we are fully human, fully free.
:34:29. > :34:33.The choir will now sing the anthem that were specially commissioned for
:34:33. > :34:43.this service by former choristers who worked at the Abbey and
:34:43. > :35:03.
:35:03. > :35:13.Coronation, written by one of our leading composers of choral work,
:35:13. > :35:32.
:35:32. > :35:42.The King Shall Rejoice. # The King shall rejoice in thy strength, O
:35:42. > :35:42.
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:36:23. > :36:26.salvation. # Glory and great worship hast thou laid upon him. # Thou hast
:36:26. > :36:36.prevented him with the blessings of goodness and hast set a crown of
:36:36. > :36:36.
:36:36. > :37:55.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 45 seconds
:37:55. > :38:05.strength, O Lord. # Exceeding glad shall he be of thy salvation.
:38:05. > :38:05.
:38:05. > :40:19.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 45 seconds
:40:19. > :40:24.# Glory and great worship hast thou to the Lord and giver of life.
:40:24. > :40:31.Thanks to God for his gracious gifts so freely bestowed on our sovereign
:40:31. > :40:36.Lady, Queen Elizabeth, throughout these past 60 years. For wisdom and
:40:36. > :40:43.insight, for constancy and steadfast as a faith and for fortitude and
:40:43. > :40:49.courage, both in prosperity and adversity, let us bless the Lord.
:40:49. > :40:55.Thanks be to God. We give thanks to God for the Queen's long and
:40:55. > :41:00.glorious reign, for her devotion to duty and to the people of this
:41:00. > :41:05.United Kingdom, the overseas territories and the realms and the
:41:05. > :41:10.Commonwealth, for her sustained support of the Armed Forces and
:41:10. > :41:18.civil powers, and for her unswerving commitment to the peaceful
:41:18. > :41:28.democratic principles of these lands. Let us bless the Lord, thanks
:41:28. > :41:28.
:41:28. > :41:33.be to God. We give thanks to God for Her Majesty's example of public
:41:33. > :41:40.service, for her commitment to the needs of others, for her
:41:40. > :41:46.affectionate service of her peoples, and for the strength and
:41:46. > :41:53.inspiration she fosters in the nations. Let us bless the Lord,
:41:53. > :41:59.thanks be to God. We pray that as our sovereign Lady
:41:59. > :42:03.has been strengthened by her belief and trust in Almighty God, though we
:42:04. > :42:12.and all people of faith may grow and be nurtured in love and know his
:42:12. > :42:17.peace in our lives. Lord in nine Mercy, hear our prayer. We pray for
:42:17. > :42:22.those who bear the Queen's authority, all who have been elected
:42:22. > :42:27.to public office, for those who serve in the forces of the Crown,
:42:27. > :42:34.especially those currently engaged in theatres of conflict. And for
:42:34. > :42:39.those who uphold and maintain justice that inspired by a vision of
:42:39. > :42:48.Christ's glory, all may honour one another and seek the common good.
:42:48. > :42:54.Lord, in nine Mercy. We pray for the Queen and all members of the Royal
:42:54. > :43:00.family that they may have health of body and mind, length of days and
:43:00. > :43:09.grace to continue to serve the needs of others, and all joy and hope in
:43:09. > :43:13.believing. Lord, in nine Mercy, hear our prayer. These are prayers, let
:43:13. > :43:22.us bring to the throne of heavenly grace as we say together the prayer
:43:22. > :43:27.that Jesus taught us. Our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy
:43:27. > :43:33.name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
:43:33. > :43:39.Give us this day our daily bread and four gives us our trespasses as we
:43:39. > :43:45.forgive those who trespassed against us, and lead us not into temptation
:43:45. > :43:55.but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power and the
:43:55. > :43:59.
:43:59. > :44:05.glory, for ever and ever, amen. At the far end, the poem read by
:44:05. > :44:08.Claire Skinner. The crown translates a woman to a Queen- endless gold,
:44:08. > :44:12.circling itself, an O like a well, fathomless, for the years to drown
:44:12. > :44:15.in-history's bride, anointed, blessed, for a crowning. One head
:44:15. > :44:22.alone can know its weight, on throne, in pageantry, and feel it
:44:22. > :44:24.still, in private space, when it's lifted: not a hollow thing, but a
:44:24. > :44:26.measuring; no halo, treasure, but a valuing; decades and
:44:26. > :44:36.duty.Time-gifted, the crown is old light, journeying from skulls of
:44:36. > :44:47.
:44:47. > :44:49.kings to living Queen. Its jewels glow, virtues; loyalty's ruby,
:44:49. > :44:59.blood-deep; sapphire's ice resilience; emerald evergreen; the
:44:59. > :45:00.
:45:00. > :45:10.shy pearl, humility. My whole life, whether it be long or short, devoted
:45:10. > :45:31.
:45:31. > :45:34.O eternal God, whose chosen servant Elizabeth our Queen hath for sixty
:45:34. > :45:44.years worn a crown of glory and righteousness in humble duty and
:45:44. > :45:47.
:45:47. > :45:50.devotion to thee: grant that we, her people, knowing whose authority she
:45:50. > :45:53.hath,may continue faithfully to serve, honour, and obey her, in thee
:45:53. > :46:03.and for thee, after the example of him who is the servant King, Jesus
:46:03. > :46:40.
:46:40. > :46:50.the King of creation! # O my soul, praise Him, for He is
:46:50. > :46:52.
:46:52. > :47:02.thy health and salvation! # All ye who hear, now to His temple
:47:02. > :47:13.
:47:13. > :47:23.draw near; # Praise Him in glad # Praise to the Lord, who over all
:47:23. > :47:23.
:47:23. > :47:33.things so wondrously reigneth. # Shelters thee under His wings,
:47:33. > :47:37.
:47:37. > :47:47.yea, so gently sustaineth! # Hast thou not seen how thy desires
:47:47. > :47:59.
:47:59. > :48:09.ever have been. # Granted in what He ordaineth?
:48:09. > :48:09.
:48:09. > :48:12.# Praise to the Lord, who hath fearfully, wondrously, made thee. #
:48:12. > :48:22.Health hath vouchsafed and, when heedlessly falling, hath stayed
:48:22. > :48:45.
:48:45. > :48:55.# Ponder anew what the Almighty can # If with His love He befriend thee.
:48:55. > :48:57.
:48:57. > :49:07.# Praise to the Lord, who, when tempests their warfare are waging.
:49:07. > :49:07.
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:49:50. > :49:53.# Who, when the elements madly the departed rest; to the Church,The
:49:53. > :50:00.Queen, the Commonwealth, and all mankind, peace and concord; and to
:50:00. > :50:04.us sinners life everlasting: and the blessing of GodAlmighty, the Father,
:50:04. > :50:14.the Son, and the Holy Spirit be among you and remain with you
:50:14. > :50:22.
:50:22. > :50:26.always. Amen. The service ends with the long and complex Coronation
:50:26. > :50:36.today and written by William Walton for the Coronation in 1953. He came
:50:36. > :50:52.
:50:52. > :51:02.WE praise thee, O God; we acknowledge thee to be the Lord.
:51:02. > :51:06.
:51:06. > :51:16.the earth doth worship thee, the Father everlasting. To thee all
:51:16. > :51:22.
:51:22. > :51:25.angels cry aloud, the heavens and all the powers therein. To thee
:51:25. > :51:35.Cherubin and Seraphin continually do cry, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of
:51:35. > :51:36.
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:53:34. > :53:37.Sabaoth; heaven and earth are full world doth acknowledge thee, the
:53:37. > :53:47.Father, of an infinite majesty; thine honourable, true, and only
:53:47. > :53:47.
:53:47. > :55:00.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 45 seconds
:55:00. > :55:05.Son, also the Holy Ghost, the Queen processes out, led by the
:55:05. > :55:12.Archbishop of Canterbury with his cross, and the Dean of Westminster.
:55:12. > :55:16.We expect her to pause at the West Door just to look at the newly
:55:16. > :55:22.restored Coronation Chair, the chair which she sat in 60 years ago for
:55:22. > :55:32.her Coronation. Followed by all the Royal Family on their way out, as
:55:32. > :55:32.
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:56:29. > :56:39.The Dean just pausing with the Queen. The Duke of Edinburgh going
:56:39. > :56:40.
:56:40. > :56:48.to have a look at the Coronation Chair. Each member of the Royal
:56:48. > :56:52.Family accompanied by either Minor Canons or Canons of the Abbey,
:56:52. > :57:02.having explained to them the work that's been done on the Coronation
:57:02. > :57:22.
:57:22. > :57:28.sprightly despite what was said. He was a crucial figure in the creation
:57:28. > :57:38.of the Coronation itself 60 years ago. It was his job to chair the
:57:38. > :57:38.
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:58:25. > :58:28.Coronation committee that decided glass-topped limousine. The Queen
:58:28. > :58:34.and Duke of Edinburgh leave the Abbey to go back to Buckingham
:58:34. > :58:37.Palace. A different day in so many ways from that day 60 years ago when
:58:37. > :58:40.the Queen came to be crowned. The weather is different for a start -
:58:40. > :58:44.sunshine instead of torrential rain. But it is also a very different
:58:45. > :58:53.country from the one she knew back in 1953. This private person, the