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MPX5157063: The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II was the ceremony in which the newly ascended monarch, 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. (Picture) The closing stages of the Abbey service, the Queen wearing the imperial crown, bearing in her right hand the Sceptre with cross and in her left the Orb. 2nd June 1953 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5157065: Personnel officer David Threlfall enjoying the good life in the Bahamas thanks to the Apollo Moon men. David 26 is pictured on holiday in the playground Caribbean Isles paid for by the 10,000 won from bookmaker William Hill when Astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the Moon. In 1964 David of Broad-gate, Preston, Lancashire, laid his £10 bet at a thousand to one against a man woman or child from any nation on Earth landing on the moon or any other planet, star of heavenly body of comparable distance from Earth before January 1971. David is holidaying at the Emerald Beach Hotel Nassau. 26th August 1969 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5157069: The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II was the ceremony in which the newly ascended monarch, 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. (Picture) Smiling, the Queen Mother and Princess Margret drive to Westminster Abbey. 2nd June 1953 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images