In 2013 HM Queen
Elizabeth II celebrates the sixtieth anniversary of her Coronation
which took place on 2 June 1953. For the last 900 years, the ceremony,
which has remained essentially the same, has taken place at Westminster
Abbey, London. The service was conducted by the Archbishop of
Canterbury, whose task this has almost always been since the Norman
Conquest in 1066. Present were representatives of the Houses of
Parliament, Church and State. Prime ministers and leading citizens from
the Commonwealth and representatives of other countries also attended.
Elizabeth II was
crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada,
Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ceylon and Pakistan, as well as
taking on the role of Head of the Commonwealth. Elizabeth, then aged
26, had ascended the throne upon the death of her father, King George
VI, on 6 February 1952. The coronation was held more than a year after
the accession. 
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