I was at school when the King died and can remember being called into an assembly where the news was broken. It was very sad and a lot of girls were crying but I didn't cry as I hadn't really known much about The King and my parents, although loyal to the monarchy, weren't strong royalists.
My father made a television for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II - the screen was about 10 inches in an enormous wooden cabinet but we were the only people in the road with a telly! I remember we had flags out at the front of the house.
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Monday, 6 February 2012
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