I’m grateful to toy and game collector Andy Duncan for the photograph and the following information about the game.

“I think this game must have been devised for the Queen's coronation in 1953 as the game is based on players collecting a series of cards that take the Queen on her route to coronation, and when holding the correct series of cards the player would lay them down and win the game. The rules include a nice notion that all players should cheer as a player lays out his/her winning cards, getting louder towards the end for reality. Waddingtons produced the game, maybe Elaine had a contact with them in either Leeds or London, Waddington's two facilities at the time, or perhaps Waddington's would have just been glad to have a game out for the coronation. I think the subject of the game shows that Elaine Burton would have been quite a monarchist.” Andy Duncan

“Norman Watson [of Waddingtons] knew very well the Leeds MP Alice Bacon, who became Baroness Bacon of Rothwell. It was Alice Bacon who rang one day and said one of her colleagues in the House had invented a card game. The colleague was indeed Elaine Burton. Norman took the game back to Waddingtons and they manufactured it in the coronation year. Norman’s son, Victor, remembers the game but did not think it lasted long after that year. I imagine it was one of many topical items produced for the event.” Kate Conlon, Leeds College of Art & Design