these great events followed by the whole world

At a time when the world is preparing to bid farewell to Elizabeth II, nearly 70 years earlier, Westminster welcomed the young queen for a historic and media coronation. It was one of the first televised events with global reach. More than 2.5 billion viewers in 187 countries then paid tribute to Princess Diana at her funeral in 1997. Viewers were almost as numerous for the “wedding of the century”, between Kate Middleton and Prince William, in 2011.

Nearly 50 years earlier, the salvation of an orphan child shook the whole world. In 1963, John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. stood in front of the coffin of his father, the 35th President of the United States, assassinated three days earlier. The silence was also poignant during the funeral of Nelson Mandela, who was then receiving military honours, in 2013. of Neil Armstrong on the Moon, in 1969, followed live by 500 million curious people.