19 year old. i have to say, i was really very frightened. i didn t know at that point that was going to be televised. the cinema newsreels had filmed previous coronations, but for the first time ever, television viewers in their homes would now be able to watch the crowning of their queen as it happened. we never, ever had a television before. my father bought one months earlier. as soon as he knew. but the big question was whether permission would be granted to televise the service from inside westminster abbey. there seemed some suggestion that the coronation couldn t be televised at all. that s the service in westminster abbey, which was clearly the thing everybody wanted to see. churchill was against it. several of the government were against it. the queen, i don t think, had been asked at that stage. she was keeping out of it. we got up every trick in the book. whenever we got another refusal from the government, would come