A memento of the start of 70 years’ service to us
WHAT a magnificent monarch who devoted her life to her nation for seven decades.
I have a memento of the Coronation that I have treasured all my life.
I was born in 1953, so I was too young to remember the occasion, but my parents told me that the whole family huddled around a tiny TV set to watch the pomp and pageantry at Westminster Abbey. All the children were bought a Coronation souvenir postcard by an uncle.
The prints had been flown to Dundee on Coronation Day and the postcards were on sale back in London by 11pm. Smiling while holding the orb and sceptre, you can see how
truly radiant and beautiful the young Queen was. She had 70 years of loyal and devoted service ahead of her.
We as a nation and the Commonwealth are so fortunate to have been blessed with such an outstanding and utterly selfless monarch. We will not see her like again.
PETER HENRICK, Birmingham.