When Elizabeth Windsor was crowned queen of England in June of 1953, C.S. Lewis watched from afar. Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation was the first to be televised, an innovation that gave the great Christian author a chance to reflect on what her reign might mean.
“You know, over here people did not get that fairy-tale feeling about the coronation,” Lewis wrote in a letter. “What impressed most who saw it was the fact that the Queen herself appeared to be quite overwhelmed by the sacramental side of it.”
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