Whicker's World
South Sea Island Coronation
S1 • E25 Nov 3, 1967 45m
Flame dancers whirl, drums throb, guests feast on thirteen thousand sucking pigs, and in a festive mixture of Polynesia and Ruritania a King is crowned. Once ruled by Queen Salote, Tonga - remote coral island set upon the seas of the South Pacific - is tonight's world for Alan Whicker, observing the joys, pangs, and charms of a unique Victorian pageant - with South Sea island overtones!