The second of June is noted in the British Isles for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth the Second in 1953. You can see the first (of seven parts) of the coronation below including a pre-recorded narration of the event by Sir Laurence Olivier:
My Mother watched the procession with my Grandfather on a stand in Hyde Park opposite the Dorchester Hotel in London after a breakfast at the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Club. It was there they saw someone's newspaper's headline that claimed:
But back to the Coronation; after the event the dignitaries returned via carriages, most were closed but some were open as can be seen in the video below around about the 3.35 mark:
One of these royal carriage users was the Queen Sālote Mafile‘o Pilolevu Tupou III of Tonga, GCMG GCVO GBE DStJ, can be seen at the 4.02 mark and according to Wikipedia:
"She brought Tonga to international attention...endearing herself to the spectators by riding through the
streets in an open carriage, smiling and waving, in the pouring rain." (Wikipedia 2013)
So much so was the adulation of this rain soaked monarch that the Trinidadian born band leader and vocalist, Edmundo Ros, wrote a calypso celebrating the Queen of Tonga - the song can be listened to below:
Sometimes good things come out of the rain and a hearty thanks to both queens, one died in 1965 and the other just celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of her coronation today
Sālote Tupou III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 2013. Sālote Tupou III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [ONLINE] Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C4%81lote_Tupou_III. [Accessed 02 June 2013].
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