🎧 THE CORONATION: THE QUEEN’S MAIDS OF HONOUR

Hugo Vickers

29/05/2019

Official Coronation portrait of British monarch HM Queen Elizabeth II with her Ladies-in-Waiting at Buckingham Palace, 2nd June 1953.
The Maids of Honour are (left-right): Lady Moyra Hamilton now Lady Moyra Campbell, Lady Anne Coke now Lady Anne Glenconner, Lady Jane Vane-Tempest-Stewart now Lady Rayne, Lady Mary Baillie-Hamilton now Lady Mary Russell, Lady Jane Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby now Baroness Willoughby de Eresby and Lady Rosemary Spencer-Churchill now Lady Rosemary Muir.
HM wears the Imperial State Crown, the Coronation Gown designed by Sir Norman Hartnell, and 21ft Ermine trimmed velvet Purple Robe of Estate. The Maids of Honour are (left-right): Lady Moyra Hamilton now Lady Moyra Campbell, Lady Anne Coke now Lady Anne Glenconner, Lady Jane Vane-Tempest-Stewart now Lady Rayne, Lady Mary Baillie-Hamilton now Lady Mary Russell, Lady Jane Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby now Baroness Willoughby de Eresby and Lady Rosemary Spencer-Churchill now Lady Rosemary Muir.
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Recording from Chalke Valley History Festival 2018.

Roaring crowds, rehearsals and dress fittings, fainting fits, furtive sips of brandy and Scottish toffees from the Privy Purse, these are amongst the memories of the Maids of Honour chosen to accompany the Queen on her Coronation Day. Lady Anne Glenconner (then Coke, middle left) and Lady Rosemary Muir (then Spencer-Churchill, far right), two of the six women who filled this important role, gives a scintillating insight into their experience of this historic occasion. In conversation with Hugo Vickers, they also talk about growing up at Holkham Hall and Blenheim Palace.

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