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Reading back on the 1953 coronation, we can see just how anti television the establishment was in 1953 - the Prime Minister Winston Churchill said television shouldn't be allowed into the abbey, the Earl Marshall was against it - all proves to show these posh, arrogant aristocrats wanted to keep the spectacle unseen from the general public, so to keep the "magic" of monarchy - they knew the world was going to change fast, and they didn't want their world to change, which TV should slowly do.

Thankfully we had Prince Phillip who at least had some idea of the modern world in 1953, he encouraged his wife to agree to bring TV cameras into the abbey, but it took one hell of an effort. He alone couldn't change her mind, he had to reply on the power of the newspapers who printed daily stories about the stupidity of the establishment not allowing cameras in to televise the ceremony, all the bad publicity forced the government's hand, and they relented, but only down to the bad PR, not about wanting the public, who paid for the damn coronation in the first place, to actually see what their money was being wasted (or spent) on.