With the coronation of King Charles III in the news last weekend, we dipped into our holdings to share these items related to Queen Elizabeth II’s 1953 coronation. These records were donated to the U of R Archives by Margaret Messer, an artist and former educator in the Faculty of Education. Margaret spent time in Europe in 1952-1953 as an exchange teacher at a girls school in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Her account of this period in her life includes a detailed travel log, several letters to her mother, and a scrapbook of photos and memorabilia. Margaret watched Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation procession from Trafalgar Square.
More details on this collection are available at https://www.uregina.ca/library/services/archives/collections/art-architecture/messer.html
Contact Archives to check it out: archives@uregina.ca
