Sun snapper Arthur Edwards shares cute picture of him celebrating Queen’s Coronation & urges Sun readers to do the same

LEGENDARY Sun photographer Arthur Edwards has spent nearly half a century covering the big events in the life of the Royal Family.

But his first taste of a right royal occasion came when he was just 12 years old.

Arthur Edwards

Our picture shows Arthur with his brother David, ten, and sister Pam, three, at a Coronation party in London’s East End[/caption]

Paul Edwards

Now Arthur wants to hear YOUR memories of the last coronation[/caption]

Our picture shows Arthur with his brother David, ten, and sister Pam, three, at a Coronation party in London’s East End.

Millions came together the length and breadth of the country to mark the Coronation in June 1953 of young mum Queen Elizabeth.

Now we want to hear YOUR memories of the day.

Were you among the 8,000 in Westminster Abbey?

Or among the throngs who saw the five-mile Coronation parade through London?

Or one of the millions who watched on TV?

Perhaps, like Arthur, your street had a party to mark the occasion?

In 1953 Arthur – who will be taking pictures at King Charles’s Coronation on May 6 – was 12 and living with his family in Stepney, East London.

He remembers: “The build-up to the Coronation was front- page news.

“I was really excited that it was happening – plus we got a day off school.

“For me the highlight was watching the Coronation on television.

“There was only one person in our row of houses who had a telly, Mrs Ash.

“She had a black and white set with a tiny 9-inch screen.

“I used to do her shopping and asked if I could watch the Coronation with her.

“She had a few of her family there, everybody was on holiday and I was glued to it.

“I remember the Queen in the gold coach and the service in Westminster Abbey.

“I watched every bit of it.

“I never in a million years thought that I would work with that beautiful lady and would be at her son’s Coronation.

“Afterwards we went to a party at the church across the road. Before we went my mum said, ‘Whatever you do, pick up a sandwich first, not a cake’.

“I learned the greatest lesson in life there that day.

“I picked up a sandwich but all the other kids went for the cake first. There was no cakes left for me.”

Tell us YOUR Coronation stories by going online to thesun.co.uk/theking.

You can upload pictures – and don’t forgot to let us know how we can contact you.

We’ll publish as many of your stories as we can in the run-up to the Coronation.