They have described themselves as the 'Spice Girls' of their day - the 'lily white' Maids of Honour chosen to accompany the Queen on her Coronation Day. Lady Rosemary Spencer-Churchill, Lady Jane Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Lady Anne Coke, Lady Mary Baillie-Hamilton, Lady Moyra Hamilton and Lady Jane Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby were chosen for their 'decorative' beauty as well as their ability to carry the Queen's heavy train. All six were reunited at Westminster Abbey today to celebrate sixty years since that momentous day. The Queen on her Coronation Day in 1953, accompanied by the six women who now call themselves 'The Queen's Spice Girls'
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Lady Rosemary Spencer-Churchill and Lady Jane Vane-Tempest-Stewart
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Lady Anne Coke, Lady Mary Baillie-Hamilton and Lady Moyra Hamilton
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Lady Jane Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby
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The six women describe the Coronation in 1953 as joyfully chaotic
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