By lunchtime almost 300 people had replied, with responses ranging from “The King’s smile after the Queen was crowned” to the moment the King entered the Abbey.
Dr Barendina Smedley, from Norfolk, wrote: “With so many others, I waited on the Mall from 3pm the day before. When we finally heard, via screens in the park, the culminating bars of Zadok the Priest – the moment of crowning – the cry that went up from the crowd was like nothing I’ve ever experienced. God save the King!”
Meanwhile, the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery fired a 41-gun royal salute in Green Park, with 71 horses pulling six First World War-era 13-pounder field guns.
At the Tower of London, the Honourable Artillery Company regiment fired a 62-gun royal salute. There were further military tributes in Edinburgh, Cardiff, York and Hillsborough, in Northern Ireland.
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