Stories from the Palaces

Memories - Crown Jewels and Coronation: Edna


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90 year old Edna, who as a young seamstress helped make robes for guests at the coronation of King George VI in 1937, organised a street party for the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953 and remembers seeing the Crown Jewels in their old home of the Wakefield Tower (they are now in the Waterloo Barracks)

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