Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Pages of history" features excerpts from The News Journal archives including the Wilmington Morning News and the Journal-Every ...

On June 2, 1953, at just 27 years old, Queen Elizabeth II was formally crowned at Westminster Abbey. Though she had officially become monarch more than a year earlier upon the sudden death of her ...

File footage: Queen Elizabeth II crowned in 1953 coronation Queen Elizabeth II was crowned on June 2, 1953, more than a year after taking the throne. She became Britain's longest-reigning monarch.

QUEEN Elizabeth II came to the throne upon her father King George VI’s death but it wasn’t until months later that she was crowned. The Queen celebrated her Platinum Jubilee in 2022 and is the longest ...

"Pages of history" features excerpts from The News Journal archives including the Wilmington Morning News and the Journal-Every Evening. Britain crowned Elizabeth II today in a magnificent spectacle ...