Paul McCartney says Queen Elizabeth "looked like a film star" to "pre-teen boys in Liverpool"

Queen Elizabeth II signaled a new dawn in 1953. For the first time, television cameras would be allowed inside Westminster Abbey to broadcast a royal coronation. 

"Till then we hadn't had a television," Sir Paul McCartney said in the CBS Special "The Queen Carries On: A Gayle King Special." "And me and my younger brother were always begging our parents, 'Can we get a TV?' ... Well then suddenly for the coronation, everyone got one." Across Britain, 27 million people tuned in, including McCartney, who had also written a prize-winning essay about the young queen.