Coronation brings back memories for Murray Bridge’s Chris Melville

She watched Elizabeth II’s crowning as a schoolgirl in England, and counts herself lucky to have lived long enough to see Charles III follow up.

Ken and Chris Melville watch the coronation of King Charles III on Saturday night. Photo: Peri Strathearn.

It has been a while between coronations for Murray Bridge’s Chris Melville.

Last time, on a summer’s day in June of 1953, she and her school friends were bundled into a hall in the village of Horbury, in Yorkshire, England.

“There was a TV at the school I went to, the infant school, and all the kids in town were taken up to the local hall to watch this funny round thing with streaky things going across the screen,” she recalled.