ALASTAIR BRUCE,

the royal commentator who conducts a revealing conversation with the Queen for the BBC’s Coronation documentary, recalled a moment when Her Majesty grasped for the imperial state Crown, placed just out of her reach. instantly a team of royal Crown Jewellers intervened to pick up the table upon which the crown stood, ushering the whole thing towards the monarch. ‘Well, you know, it is my Crown,’ said the Queen, Bruce revealed.