King died in his sleep at Sandringham in thea> early hours of February 6, 1952. At that moment, 3,000 miles away in Kenya, his daughter Princess Elizabeth became Queen.
Preparations began immediately for a ceremony essentially unchanged since in AD 973 of the Anglo-Saxon King Edgar. Elizabeth’s Coronation had to go smoothly as it would be a global occasion; never before had so many people witnessed the same event at the same time.
In her broadcast in 1952 said: ‘Pray for me on that day. Pray that God may give me wisdom and strength to carry out the solemn promises I shall be making.’
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