Few will have spotted the small item of royal news amid all the world headlines about the imminent abdication of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
But at the very moment the Dutch monarch was preparing her stirring and dignified valedictory speech to her nation on Monday afternoon, a modest little royal announcement was being released in London.
On Tuesday, June 4, it stated, the Queen, Prince Philip and other members of the Royal Family will be gathering en masse at Westminster Abbey. This occasion, however, will not be a wedding or a funeral. It will be a ‘service of celebration’ in honour of the 60th anniversary of one of the great moments in post-war British history — the Coronation.
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