The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

The most ambitious and technically difficult broadcast the BBC had ever tackled.

  • Movie
  • 2012
  • 47m
  • Documentary

This fascinating documentary reveals the behind the scenes story of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, drawing on rare archive footage and made using eyewitness accounts of participants and historical experts.

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Director
Jamie Muir
Starring
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, Richard Dimbleby, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret

Cast

  • Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

    Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

    Self (archive Footage)

  • Richard Dimbleby

    Self (archive Voice)

  • Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

    Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

    Self (archive Footage)

  • Princess Margaret

    Princess Margaret

    Self (archive Footage)

  • Tamsin Greig

    Tamsin Greig

    Narrator

  • Alastair Bruce

    Historian

  • Hugo Vickers

    Hugo Vickers

    Historian

  • James Wilkinson

    Author, 'The Queen's Coronation'

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