One of the late Queen s Coronation Maids of Honour has revealed new insight into the most magical and amazing day of her life - but it wasn t all smooth sailing.
As the Prince of Wales, Edward VIII met Rosemary Leveson-Gower in France in 1917, when she was a nurse treating First World War servicemen. Above: The pair in 1925; Rosemary in 1927.
Lady Rosemary Muir was 23 when she received a letter from the Duke of Norfolk, the Earl Marshal, informing her that she had been chosen as one of the six maids of honour to assist the Mistress of the Robes in the coronation of Elizabeth II. That was in January 1953. From then until the
One of the maids of honour at the Queen's coronation has recalled how a young Charles ran off with the crown when his mother later removed it at Buckingham Palace.