"THE QUEEN TRIES ON HER DRESS!" cried a newspaper headline. "EXCITEMENT IN THE AIR!" exclaimed another. Britons by the thousands clustered around the entrances to Westminster Abbey where, in a few days, the second Elizabeth will be crowned. On three successive days, the smiling young Queen, patient, graceful and composed through all the furor, turned up at the Abbey with a 2-shilling coronation guide in her hand for rehearsals of the ceremony.
On the Mall and along the entire six-mile route of the coronation procession, Londoners and gawk-eyed visitors cheered London's bright new look. For months, the old city...
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