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Adele Rose (8 December 1933 – 28 December 2020) [1] was an English television writer. She was the longest-serving scriptwriter for the soap opera Coronation Street, writing 457 scripts over a period of 37 years from 1961, and was the first woman to write for the show.
King George III and Queen Charlotte coronation admission ticket. The coronation was budgeted at £9,430 [4] (some sources give a figure of around £70,000. [5]) By tradition, ceremonial preparations ought to have been conducted by the hereditary Earl Marshal, Edward Howard, 9th Duke of Norfolk; however, being a Roman Catholic, he was debarred, and the role was deputised to his distant relative ...
H. V. Kershaw, also known as Harry Kershaw, (29 May 1918 [1] – 18 April 1992) from Manchester was a British television scriptwriter and producer best known for his long association with the soap opera Coronation Street, a programme he continued to pen scripts for until the late-1980s.
On the day before the coronation, the boy king and his retinue were met outside the City of London by the lord mayor, aldermen and the livery companies, and he was conducted to the Tower of London where he spent the night in vigil. The following morning, the king travelled on horseback in a great procession through the decorated city streets to ...
The coronation of Elizabeth II as queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms took place on 2 June 1953 at Westminster Abbey in London. [1] Elizabeth acceded to the throne at the age of 25 upon the death of her father, George VI, on 6 February 1952, being proclaimed queen by her privy and executive councils shortly afterwards.
The Coronation Concert was a British music concert, held outside Windsor Castle on 7 May 2023, in celebration of the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla. The concert, which was attended by 20,000 members of the public, took place between 20:30 and 22:04 ( BST ) and was hosted by actor Hugh Bonneville .
The coronation of Charles VII of France (1429), detail of the painting Jeanne d'Arc (1886–1890) by Jules Eugène Lenepveu. A coronation is the act of placement or bestowal of a crown upon a monarch's head. The term also generally refers to the ceremony which marks the formal investiture of a monarch with regal power.
A coronation anthem is a piece of choral music to accompany the crowning of a monarch. Many composers have written such works. Being anthems, ...