• Jill Biden will become the first U.S. first lady to attend the coronation of a British monarch Saturday, although 70 years ago, one of her predecessors was on hand to help document the occasion.
• As a 23-year-old freelance journalist, Jacqueline Bouvier described the scene in London as the young Queen Elizabeth II was to be crowned.
• “Londoners seem amazed at the hordes of Americans here for the colourful event,” she wrote for the Washington Times-Herald in 1953.

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