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Show And now last night's TV news roand-tp So you'll see Prince Charles after all by ROBERT CANNELL "1 MNAL TV tests in Westminster Abbey jM yesterday showed that it will be possible -JL to screen Prince Charles for a brief moment when he appears in the royal box today to see his mother crowned. Princess Anne is expected to see TV in the Palace. Telerecordings filmed from TV screens during Friday's dress rehearsal have been seen and approved by the Earl Marshal, the Duke of Norfolk. The Queen was asxed if she wished them to be shown at Buckingham Palace. But she declined. rh&se Aims lorm a complete record of the ceremonies cere-monies a3 thev will be televised today. They show bevond doubt that the 30.000.000 TV audience will see all but i. fraction of the Coronation Service. Only about four minutes in all will be invisible and thes-j are moments which will be seen by only a handful of the Abbey congregation. The lilms show wonderfully clear details of the gowns there will be a specially good picture of the Queen's own Coronation gown. And although there will be no " close-up shots " in the film sense that is of a screen filled with one face the TV lenses will bring the Queen seemingly within touching distance. At the supreme moment of Coronation itself only the Royal Family and the TV audience will see the Queen's face. TV in colour WHEN the Coronation procession passes along Whitehall todav sick children in the Great Ormond-street Hospital for Children, two miles away, will see it by colour TV the first public demonstration in Britain. Special TV cameras on the roof of the Foreign Office will screen the colourful scene and it will be reproduced on two sizes of TV screen in the hospital. Left it . to'o late ALL through the night and up to the last minute today thousands of TV engineers were working to instal TV receivers ready for the Coronation broadcasts. Many have had little sleep since Friday. Their telephones yesterday were jammed with last-minute requests. And thousands of people left it too late. Even the B.B.C. had its last-minute "flap." Gale damage to the aerial of the new booster station on . Truleigh Hill, near Brighton, early yesterday threatened the service to South Coast viewers. An engineering crew was despatched, and tests last night indicated that the service would be normal today. |