stand on her dignity in a conversation’. At her coronation on 2 June 1953 in Westminster Abbey, Queen Elizabeth II took the coronation oath vowing to serve her people and maintain the laws of God. What none of the 8,000 guests packed into the Abbey or the millions watching on television sets around the world heard was the Queen’s frantic whisper to Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher to ‘Get me started!’ Friction between her heavy state robes and the carpet had her firmly
