Weatherday: Elizabeth II Regina

Dorly O'Sullivan and friends at the Miscellany on Sunday event in Berminghams of Mooretown (2006).

This morning will start off dry and bright. Showery rain moving in from the west through the afternoon and evening.

Highest temperatures up to 16deg in light variable winds.

On this day in 1953, 27-year-old Elizabeth II, the elder daughter of King George VI, was crowned queen of the United Kingdom at Westminster Abbey in London. She had taken the throne upon her father's death in February 1952.

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