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He looks like a young man burnt out through romantic love who is now a parched shell and incapable of doing more than look beautiful in his quartered tunic as he holds the two wands in his ivory hands.

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Having been tasked with taking Queen Elizabeth II’s official Coronation portraits, Vogue’s Cecil Beaton found himself in Westminster Abbey on 2 June 1953, where he both wrote and sketched his impressions of what Vogue would term the dawn “of a new age”.

They have been rehearsing their roles since birth; as children they heard their grandfathers talk of Coronations. There is nothing ponderous or heavy; it is almost gay, the service following its course with the easy flow of the River Thames, yet nothing is hurried, it is in the dream world of slow motion. The ultimate in manners, these people are on terms with each other, never surprised or impressed, everything regulated and dignified.

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Below, read his descriptive notes from his seat across from the abbey’s Rose Window and North Transept. Beaton recorded his impressions throughout the service, including portraits of various notable guests. Available in all kinds of colours and styles, these popular gift wrap accessories are perfect for adding the finishing touches. The supreme notability of the words of the service has the double impact of surprise and familiarity that greets the mark of real inspiration.

This wonderful ceremony takes the mind back through a thousand years, yet it is as freshly inspiring as some great histrionic ritual, enacted upon a spontaneous impulse of genius. Somehow the music of violin, trumpet and voice welling up through the tall grey vaults of the Abbey sounds more pure and sifted than it might anywhere else. Among them, undoubtedly the most beautiful is the Duchess of Devonshire, wearing the original 18th-century Coronation robes belonging to Georgiana, Gainsborough’s Duchess, completely different in their cut and line, her hair dressed wide à la Daisy Pless. I’d been advised by a friend or two Phoenix was very good and reliable, but that is an understatement. The movements, the gestures, the weaving in and out of the robed figures, using first one portion of the Abbey and then moving, for contrast, to another.