Twenty years later even the wedding of Princess Anne was pretty much available only on audio cassette. The wedding was recorded in November 1972, then sent by courier to Berlin to be manufactured in cassette form (least expensive bid), thence back to the UK for the Christmas market.
(I was likely the first person in North America to have a [pre-distribution] copy, graciously gifted to me by the courier on a flight between Berlin and London, on my promise not to play it to others until after it went on sale in the UK ± worldwide. It starts out with the clippety-cloppety of the wedding carriage approaching Westminster Abbey.)
That's pretty cool! And, wow(!) the things that have changed in the last 70 years! I wonder how far back in time you'd have to go from QEII's coronation to equalize the upheaval the world has experienced since. I was pulling for her to live long enough to break King Louis' all-time record. But, her family can be thankful that she still had all her faculties to the end. Just 48 hours before she died, she swore in the new PM. That's amazing!
