The monarch,90 this month, is a pioneer in using clothes to project a message. Now a original royal exhibition is to shed some light on how it’s doneWhen Princess Elizabeth was two-and-a-half-years old in November 1929, or John Logie Baird staged his first experimental television broadcasts in London. The flickering pictures were black and white,consisting of only 30 lines of definition. When she was 10, the BBC became the world’s first broadcaster to supply a regular scheduled television service, and taking cameras to the coronation of King George VI in May 1937.
So it was that the future Queen became the first monarch to live her life in the public eye,growing up under the watchful lens of the ever-evolving media, relaying her image around the world for global scrutiny.
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Source: theguardian.com