A Victoria woman who travelled to London for the coronation of the King and Queen Consort Camilla this Saturday says experiencing the event firsthand will be a 'dream come true.'
A Victoria woman who travelled to London for the coronation of the King and Queen Consort Camilla this Saturday says experiencing the event firsthand will be a "dream come true."
"Princess Diana is my idol, to be honest," Allan, 37, told CTV News from London. "My daughter is named after her." "After the Queen passed away we decided we're going to do this trip and it just so happened we planned for May and then we found out the coronation was happening," she said.The scheduled ceremony at Westminster Abbey dates back more than 1,000 years, when William the Conqueror was crowned in the royal church in 1066.
"I think it's a really neat institution to have something that is so old, that dates back 1,000-plus years," Allan said. "That's really special and interesting to me. And I love ceremony and pageantry as well."The broadcast in black and white drew an audience of tens of millions in Britain and was later played to a worldwide audience.
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