page_title: Coronation of Elizabeth II
section_title: Guests
hierarchical_section_title: Coronation of Elizabeth II / Event / Guests
caption_attribution_description: English: Two limed oak chairs used at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. The chairs were made by B North and Sons, of High Wycombe covered with blue velvet from Listers mills in Bredford. This chairs are owned by 3rd Lord and Lady Armstrong. Deutsch: Zwei Stühle, die bei der Krönung von Queen Elizabeth II. den Gästen zur Verfügung standen. Die Stühle gehören Lord Armstrong III. und seiner Frau. Nach der Krönung konnten die Stühle von ihren (im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes) Besitzern käuflich erworben werden.
context_page_description: The coronation of Elizabeth II took place on 2 June 1953 at Westminster Abbey, London. Elizabeth II acceded to the throne at the age of 25 upon the death of her father, George VI, on 6 February 1952, being proclaimed queen by her privy and executive councils shortly afterwards. The coronation was held more than one year later because of the tradition of allowing an appropriate length of time to pass after a monarch dies before holding such festivals. It also gave the planning committees adequate time to make preparations for the ceremony. During the service, Elizabeth took an oath, was anointed with holy oil, invested with robes and regalia, and crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon.
  Celebrations took place across the Commonwealth realms and a commemorative medal was issued. It was the first British coronation to be fully televised; television cameras had not been allowed inside the abbey during her father's coronation in 1937. Elizabeth's was the fourth and last British coronation of the 20th century. It was estimated to have cost £1.57 million.
context_section_description: After being closed since the Queen's accession for coronation preparations, Westminster Abbey was opened at 6 am on Coronation Day to the approximately 8,000 guests invited from across the Commonwealth of Nations; more prominent individuals, such as members of the Queen's family and foreign royalty, the peers of the United Kingdom, heads of state, Members of Parliament from the Queen's various legislatures, and the like, arrived after 8:30 a.m. Tonga's Queen Sālote was a guest, and was noted for her cheery demeanour while riding in an open carriage through London in the rain. General George Marshall, the United States Secretary of State who implemented the Marshall Plan, was appointed chairman of the US delegation to the coronation and attended the ceremony along with his wife, Katherine.
  Guests seated on stools were able to purchase their stools following the ceremony, with the profits going towards the cost of the Coronation.
caption: The chairs used at the coronation
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