Wearing her crown she bathed him King Charles as a child n queen elizabethas he reveals in a documentary of 50 Canadian women who attended the Queen’s coronation when she was 17 years old.
Despite the fact that Charles was just four years old at the time of his mother Queen Elizabeth’s coronation in 1953, he said that many of his memories of that day and the build-up to the ceremony are still vivid.
“I remember it all so well, because I remember my sister and I taking a bath in the evening,” said King Charles, as he recalled the preparation for his mother’s coronation.
“My mom used to come in at bath time wearing the crown to practice. You have to get used to the weight of the crown” he said characteristically.
“I’ve never forgotten it, I still remember it all vividly” she told the Canadian women she was guiding around Buckingham Palace in scenes filmed in December 2023 for the Coronation Girls documentary.
In fact, Charles himself admitted that he was “a bit nervous” about his own coronation on May 6, 2023, and worried that his jewel-laden St Edward’s Crown – which weighs more than two kilograms – would “wobble” on his head. of.
The documentary ‘Coronation Girls’ directed by Douglas Arrowsmith, tells the story 50 women who at the age of 17 traveled from Canada to Britain to attend the coronation of Queen Elizabeth.
The their historic trip to Britain, in 1953, had been financed by a Canadian businessman, Garfield Weston, and was by road and sea.
Their stay in Britain lasted seven weeks. None of the participating girls had moved away from their place of birth until then. So that trip to London, which was even decorated for the coronation, was an extremely powerful experience.
After returning to Canada they followed different paths in life. Some became teachers, one a climate activist and one a nun, but they kept in touch with each other. The survivors in 2023 returned to London and Buckingham Palace at around 89 years of age.