Queen Elizabeth II is dead at 96, bringing her unprecedented 70-year reign to a close
"I remember lines of unknown people linking arms and walking down Whitehall, all of us just swept along on a tide of happiness and relief," she said in a BBC broadcast from 1985, according to In 1946, Philip proposed to Elizabeth when she was 20 years old. The princess said yes without asking her parents, according to Time, though the couple had to wait to announce their engagement until after her 21st birthday, per her father's wishes.
. And 3 million Brits gathered along the streets to cheer as Elizabeth made her way to Buckingham Palace following the ceremony.Elizabeth's coronation ceremony was the first to be broadcast live on TV. It was Philip's idea to televise the event, according to Time. In 1970, during a royal tour in Australia and New Zealand, Elizabeth decided to greet her fans on the streets instead of waving to them from a guarded area.
"Although that vow was made in my salad days when I was green in judgment, I do not regret nor retract one word of it," she said during the ceremony, according to History.com.In February 1981, Charles, then 32, proposed to Diana Spencer, who at the time was 19 and working as a kindergarten teacher's assistant.
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