Floating through London ... Gordon Robson represented Australia at the Queen's coronation 60 years ago. Photo: Jay Cronan Sixty years ago today 20-year old Gordon Robson ''floated'' for 20 kilometres through inner London's great thoroughfares. He was actually marching, not floating, he explains, but as part of a proud and excited Australian Coronation Contingent taking part in the Queen's coronation procession, ''I don't think any of us noticed the distance. We were floating!'' Today's 60th anniversary of Her Majesty's coronation has special, enormous, sentimental significance for Mr Robson, a retired public servant. When at only 19 he was selected to go to London for the coronation, he was...
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