LONDON (AFP) – Dozens of guns were fired Monday lunchtime in London from Green Park in the center of the capital, and the Tower of London to mark the 60th anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II .
June 2, 1953, the sovereign then aged 27, was crowned in Westminster Abbey in London, attended by over 8,000 guests and representatives of 129 countries and territories, under the eyes of some 27 million viewers UK.
Monday, 41 guns were fired in Green Park in his honor by the troops of the prestigious “Royal Horse Artillery.”
The unit is stationed at the barracks in Woolwich where also lay the soldier Lee Rigby, who was killed with a knife on May 22 On Friday, the Queen visited the barracks.
second salvo of 62 guns was fired from the Tower of London by the oldest regiment in the British Army, the Honourable Artillery Company.
Sunday, Queen Elizabeth II, 87, had celebrated privately and discreetly anniversary.
day she had attended the Epsom Derby, the famous horse race where she had last year celebrated the first day of her Diamond Jubilee.
These festivities, organized with great pomp, had marked the sixty-year reign of the sovereign, who acceded to the throne on the death of her father George VI February 6, 1952 but was not crowned until 16 months later .
anniversary of the coronation celebrations are smaller. Some 2,200 guests are expected to attend a ceremony Tuesday at 11:00 (10:00 GMT) at Westminster Abbey.
Justin Welby Archbishop of Canterbury, the spiritual leader of Anglicans must deliver a sermon while Prime Minister David Cameron, 12th Chief Government that the queen was known to read a passage from the Bible.
twenty members of the royal family will be alongside the Queen, with her husband, Prince Philip, 91, and Prince William and his wife Catherine, who are expecting their first child, the future (e) heir (e) the throne, for the month of July.
“coronation festival” will be held from July 11 to 14 in the palace gardens. As of July 27, an exhibition will allow the public to discover the costumes of the coronation.
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