Fake Crown Jewels
Series
- Series Name
- This Week In Britain
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: The crown jewels are priceless, kept under special guard at the Tower of London - so how come Maggie Palmer is wearing them? Well, she isn’t. Needless to say every one of the pieces is a fake! A firm of costumiers in Covent Garden in London has been "honourably" faking the crown jewels for over 40 years. And so well do they do it that their copies were used at the rehearsal of the Queen’s Coronation 25 years ago and that of her father’s 15 years before.
- Researcher Comments
- NB: Information drawn from the Australian version
- Keywords
- Arts and crafts; Fashion and costume
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 23 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 936/938
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Director
- Eddy Newstead
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Presenter
- Lilliana Velasco
- Presenter
- Maggie Palmer
- Cutter
- Mike Willcox
- Producer
- Patrick Brawn
- Camera
- Platypus Films
- Support services
- Zakiya Powell
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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- 020 7255 1444
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- 020 7580 7503
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- 21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN - Notes
- The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).
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How to cite this record
'Fake Crown Jewels', This Week In Britain Issue No. 938, 1977. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/329179 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)