Brett, Dorothy. “The King is Crowned”. The New Yorker, pp. 56-64.
Queen Elizabeth II
Standard Name: Elizabeth II, Queen
Used Form: Princess Elizabeth
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Reception | Fleur Adcock | After Ted Hughes
died on 28 October 1998, FA
's name was put forward as Poet Laureate. This honour went, however, to Andrew Motion
. Adcock had already won the Cholmondeley Award in 1976, received... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Her first book about the Duchess of York, written while the Duchess was on tour in Australia, ended with the anxious moment of the reunion of the stranger mother with her toddler daughter the... |
Publishing | Dorothy Brett | DB
's article The King
is Crowned, solicited by the New Yorker's Kyle Crichton
, reached print in time for Queen Elizabeth II
's coronation. Hignett, Sean. Brett. Franklin Watts. 247-8 |
Textual Production | Dorothy Brett | In spring 1953, amid public excitement over the forthcoming coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
, a journalist acquaintance of DB
, Kyle Crichton, suggested she should write an article of reminiscences about the coronation of... |
Textual Production | Vera Brittain | |
Reception | Frances Burney | FB
never disappeared from literary consciousness to the same extent as many of her female contemporaries, but she was usually treated with condescension. Austin Dobson
published a life of her in 1903 in Macmillan
's... |
Literary Setting | A. S. Byatt | ASB
says that this book and its three successors are about the desirability of an androgynous mind. Friel, James, and Jenny Newman. “A. S. Byatt”. Contemporary British and Irish Fiction: An Introduction through Interviews, edited by Sharon Monteith et al., Hodder Headline, pp. 36-53. 43 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Daphne Du Maurier | |
Textual Production | Carol Ann Duffy | CD edited a poetry anthology, Jubilee Lines: 60 Poets for 60 Years, to mark Elizabeth II
's Diamond Jubilee. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
Textual Production | U. A. Fanthorpe | Although not Poet Laureate, UAF
was commissioned by the organisers of Bolton Festival to write a celebratory work for the eightieth birthday of Queen Elizabeth II
. Its first performance, with music by composer Martin Lessons |
Textual Production | Rumer Godden | She broadcast, too. For the US radio network of Mary Margaret McBride
she described, live, the responses of the crowds in the streets at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth
on 2 June 1953. Godden, Rumer. A House with Four Rooms. Macmillan. 163-4 |
Textual Production | Ann Jellicoe | The Girl Guides (founded in 1910), having heard that AJ
wrote plays about teenagers, commissioned her in 1960 to write a play for their fiftieth anniversary. It was meant to be performed by four hundred... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore | Later relations of MEBCS
include Queen Elizabeth II
(through her mother
, who was born a Bowes-Lyon) and John Bowes
, the Victorian illegitimate son who built and endowed the splendid Bowes Museum
in County Durham. |
Textual Production | Jan Morris | JM
published a book about reporting from the Mount Everest expedition, titled Coronation Everest because its account of the conquest of the summit had reached London providentially on the eve [1 June 1953] of Queen Elizabeth |
Occupation | Jan Morris | While studying and writing for the student newspaper, Cherwell, Morris also established contact with The Times, then took a job as a sub-editor and junior leader-writer, then as foreign correspondent with the newspaper... |
Timeline
21 April 1926: Princess Elizabeth was born: the future Queen...
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21 April 1926
Princess Elizabeth
was born: the future Queen Elizabeth II, though at this time there was no apparent prospect of her succeeding to the throne.
13 October 1940: Princess Elizabeth made her first BBC radio...
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13 October 1940
January 1945: Princess Elizabeth received training in the...
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January 1945
Princess Elizabeth
received training in the operation and maintenance of vehicles while part of the Auxiliary Territorial Service
.
20 November 1947: Princess Elizabeth married the Duke of Edinburgh;...
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20 November 1947
Princess Elizabeth
married the Duke of Edinburgh
; BBC
radio broadcast the wedding service, and BBC television covered the procession as well.
14 November 1948: Princess Elizabeth had her first child, Charles,...
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14 November 1948
Princess Elizabeth
had her first child, Charles
, who was later invested as Prince of Wales.
13 July 1951: Queen Elizabeth II laid the foundation stone...
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13 July 1951
6 February 1952: King George VI died and Elizabeth II assumed...
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6 February 1952
King George VI
died and Elizabeth II
assumed the throne.
May 1953: The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II was...
Building item
May 1953
The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
was marked by a special bonus on the butter ration: four extra ounces to add to each person's weekly eight ounces.
29 May 1953: The summit of Mount Everest, highest mountain...
Building item
29 May 1953
The summit of Mount Everest, highest mountain in the world, was first reached: by the Sherpa Tenzing Norgay
and the New Zealander Edmund Hillary
(who was later knighted).
2 June 1953: Queen Elizabeth II was crowned; the BBC's...
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2 June 1953
Queen Elizabeth II
was crowned; the BBC
's coverage of this, the first televised coronation, was carried live in the UK, France, the Netherlands and West Germany.
24 November 1953: Just months after her coronation, Queen Elizabeth...
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24 November 1953
Just months after her coronation, Queen Elizabeth II
began her first tour of the Commonwealth, which continued for six months.
1955: Italian artist Pietro Annigoni drew record...
Building item
1955
Italian artist Pietro Annigoni
drew record attendance to the Royal Academy
's summer Exhibition with his somewhat romantic portrait HM the QueenQueen Elizabeth II
.
14 October 1957: Queen Elizabeth II made her first television...
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14 October 1957
Queen Elizabeth II
made her first television broadcast, a telerecording to Canadians.
18 March 1958: The attendance of debutantes at Court for...
Building item
18 March 1958
The attendance of debutantes at Court for formal presentation to the Queen
took place for the final time.
10 June 1958: The Centenary Gala of the Royal Opera House...
Building item
10 June 1958
The Centenary Gala of the Royal Opera House
took place in celebration of the opening (on 6 April 1847) of the third theatre on the Covent Garden site, the first designed for opera.
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