[James2001]

A lot of interest but clearly nowhere near as much as the media would have had us believe this past week. Considering they've consistently being pointing out that the crowning of a monarch is something most of us have never seen before and phrases like ''monumental'' ''historic'' and ''defining moment in our history'' have saturated the last week I’m sure many would have assumed it would have gotten at least closer to the 30 million the funeral got last year. In the end most people don't have particulaly strong feelings either way and just want to enjoy the long weekend.

7 million fewer than watched the 1953 coronation- and that was a time when the population was smaller and many people didn't have access to TVs or lived somewhere there was no transmitter. I've seen lots of people today trying to tell us how "BARB's a load of crap", the viewing figures were "wrong" and failed to pick up on millions of viewers, but in reality I think it's just a reflection of modern society and changing attitudes to the monarchy that over two thirds of people didn't watch.