![]() The coronation, however, was a stark and welcome contrast, ushering in a new mood, dubbed by the pundits "the New Elizabethan Age." Food rationing that had kept the nation on starvation-adjacent diets for well over a decade didn’t fully end until 1954, a year later. ![]() In 1953, the great and the good-civilian or military-who crammed into Westminster Abbey were survivors of a world war, still a very recent scar on the British psyche. At her coronation, Elizabeth was 27 Charles is pushing 75.īut things were very different then. After all, who could blame him? He’s been waiting in the wings for quite a while. The king might have insisted on a facsimile of his mother’s epic coronation ceremony 70 years ago. Hugo Burnand/Buckingham Palace // Getty Images ![]() King Charles wears a pinstripe suit by Anderson and Sheppard in his official coronation portrait. ![]()
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