Product Description

DAYS OF MAJESTY

A film that beautifully depicts and celebrates the ceremonies that draw millions of tourists to England every year, those ceremonies associated with the Royal Family. In the year that marked the 40th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's Coronation, this film portrays all the pomp and grandure that surrounds the monarchy.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23258 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-10-30
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 103 minutes

Customer Reviews

I love this DVD
I am so glad this is on DVD. I taped it off of my local PBS station during the year commemorating the 45th aniversary of Queen Elizabeth's coronation. It was fascinating to see everything that went on during the wweks leading up to the coronation, like the women who embroidered the train that the Queen wore when she first entered Westminster Abbey. I love this DVD and am happy to have it once again in my royal library.

MAGNIFICENT DIGITAL RESTORATION OF THE CORONATION
I received this DVD as a gift and it was very well appeciated by me. The footage of the coronation rehearsals with the Duchess of Norfolk are amazing - surely some of the most extraordinary footage ever filmed. The Duchess of Norfolk of the time did not convert to Catholicism therefore she could stand in for The Queen.

See also the book "Coronation June 2 1953" by Conrad Frost (ISBN 0 213 16674 7) for a COMPLETE background to the lead-up, rehearsals, snafus, and "insider" revelations attendant upon the greatest coronation we are going to see in our lifetimes.

I found the reviews by the other two reviewers to be superficial and to review such an important DVD in one sentence just reeks of laziness and superciliousness. Surely that reviewer had more to say - but then maybe he did not.

This is an astounding DVD and has such chapter headings as: The Trial of the Pyx; Swan Upping; Lord Lieutenants; The Royal Standard; The Royal Maundy Service; Colour Drills; The Royal Company of Archers; etc., etc.

It is a treasure-trove for gleaners of royal trivia and admirers of the House of Mountbatten-Windsor alike.

Highly recommended to all monarchist and lovers of pomp and pageantry.

Timothy Wingate Ottawa CANADA

Very Nice
Interesting look at the monarch I bought it mostly to see coronation
footage. It was worth the money