Queen's 60th Birthday Coronary Special.

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"That Queen looks shit hot!" - Clement Attlee.

To mark the sixth decade of The Queen coming to power, Walt Disney UK is very proud to present Queen Coronation: 60th Anniversary Edition, out now on DVD and other formats. It's a must for Royal collectors, watchers and many others who may take a brief, fleeting interest in such a product - OUT NOW!

This specially prepared 60-minute doc is narrated by Richard Dimbleby (Father of The Dimblebys), who famously provided commentary on the original event ("Never... in the field of coronations..."). The doc features plenty of remastered footage, including the live TV introduction filmed by Groucho Marx, with usual humour: "This is the woirst coronation I evah been to!

However, as you can see by the screencap on the DVD cover a dark note is struck in accompanying featurette 'The Traitor of the Thames', in which Dimbleby holds up the head of Royal Speech Therapist Lionel Blair, who was beheaded for sitting in The Queen's chair during rehearsals.

The event is fondly remembered for such classic catchphrases as "Mind y'Wednesdays!" and "How's about y'Thursdays?" but it left a foetid stench that lingered long in the nostrilpipes. But there were fond moments too, such as the surprise appearance of a young Simon & Garfunkel. The acoustics were great and their three hour set famously held up the occasion, but the sound of the opening chords of 'America' to finish off a bonus encore was greeted with a joyous roar from the assembled crowd, a moshpit lovingly forming beneath the throne.

The doc doesn't shirk from mentioning the ups and downs in the latter years either, mentioning The Queen's daughter Babs and her sordid Carry On career and later the many antics of Elizabeth II herself, including her drug-cocktail collapse outside an LA club and rumours that Diana's 'suicide' in her Seattle home was a case of 'moider'. But the 21st century has seen a much more settled Queen, who has produced many royal 'classics' in her lair including Charles, Camilla and Ferguson before being cruelly blown out of an airlock by Sigourney Weaver.



This original photo shows how Dimbleby assisted in The Crowning himself at one point.