Queen Elizabeth II is formally crowned in a ceremony at Westminster Abbey, London becoming s the thirty-ninth Sovereign to be crowned there. The ceremony, which followed her accession to the throne after the death of her father, King George VI, in February 1952, was a significant event and the first coronation to be televised. More
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