The Styrous® Viewfinder: Tea Cups 01: Queen Elizabeth Coronation, 2 June 1953, tea cup

I am starting this new category on my Viewfinder blog about the tea cups I have in my collection which I found on my "Turkish junking" adventures in the late fifties to the mid-seventies (link below).

I figure my Queen Elizabeth Coronation tea cup would be an excellent and regal beginning for it. There will be other entries to follow (link below).

The coronation of Elizabeth II as queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms took place on 2 June 1953 at Westminster Abbey in London. She acceded to the throne at the age of 25 upon the death of her father, George VI, on 6 February 1952, being proclaimed queen by her privy and executive councils shortly afterwards. The coronation was held more than one year later because of the tradition of allowing an appropriate length of time to pass after a monarch dies. It also gave the planning committees adequate time to make preparations for the ceremony.

That included the manufacturing of a bazillion different types of mementos to celebrate it. This tea cup being one of them.

I watched the ceremony on television along with millions of other people around the globe. It was the first British coronation to be fully televised; television cameras were not allowed inside the abbey during her parents' coronation in 1937. Elizabeth's was the fourth and final British coronation of the 20th century. It was estimated to have cost £1.57 million (c. £53,571,428 in 2023).