Runner who worked 1953 Queen’s coronation hopes King’s ceremony will shine light on printed images

A photographer's who was perched high up on scaffolding inside Westminster Abbey at Queen Elizabeth II's coronation hopes the King Charles III’s ceremony will make people better appreciate the power of printed images.

In 1953, Alex Falk was 17 and working for the Press Association.

As the late Queen was being crowned, he assisted photographers during the ceremony and afterwards make his way as quickly as he could back to Fleet Street, carrying a satchel full of precious slides to be processed.

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