The newly-crowned Queen took the Coronation Oath at Westminster Abbey, where the three-hour-long service went off without a hitch One day, she was simply Princess Elizabeth, the next: Queen Elizabeth.

Queen Elizabeth II on the day of her coronation, Buckingham Palace, 1953. The Print Collector/Getty Images At the age of 25, Queen Elizabeth II — then known as Princess Elizabeth — pledged to remain ...

King Charles III’s coronation was still a whopping 70 years away when he watched, as an adorably bored prince, his mother Queen Elizabeth II formally crowned in front of a massive audience – most ...

Queen Elizabeth II was formally crowned during a coronation ceremony at London’s Westminster Abbey on June 2, 1953.Elizabeth, only 27 years old at the time, was accompanied by her husband, Prince ...

For the first time since the queen’s coronation in 1953, the dress, robes, jewels, diamonds and uniforms worn on that day have finally been brought together again. The coronation dress and the robe ...

She was just another pretty face in the crowd, an excited young American reporter on the assignment of her career so far – covering the June 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Little could ...