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Final preparations

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News footage: 1 July 1969

This BBC News footage shows the final preparations as Caernarfon welcomes the investiture ceremony. TV crews set up for largest outside colour broadcast in history, as well as the largest outside broadcast since the coronation of Queen Elizabeth in 1953.

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