Queen Elizabeth II’s Final Journey To Windsor After State Funeral In London – Hw

this is a cbs news special report i’m nora o’donnell with gail king in london for a ceremony today likely to captivate the world queen elizabeth ii’s funeral likely to be viewed by billions one of the biggest global audiences everyone everyone tuning in to see this captivate is the word nora we’ve been here and i’m already captivated and it hasn’t even started it’s amazing to be here in this place at this time it is the picture’s extraordinary overnight the palace doing something very special releasing a brand

new portrait of the queen it was taken for her platinum jubilee just a few months ago and in it she’s wearing a brooch given to her by her father for her 18th birthday it’s the front page of all the papers today and you can see she’s smiling so broadly the longest reigning british monarch is being remembered for her decades of service to this nation and the commonwealth and of course we’re already hearing there’s now this campaign underway they don’t want to call her elizabeth the great they want to call her elizabeth the faithful so we’re

expecting a day of great emotion pomp and ceremony you can see look at the crowds it’s just extraordinary millions gathered here this funeral will be held at westminster abbey just behind us it’s going to be in just about half an hour and the guests including president biden and the first lady have already arrived here and um i mean this westminster abbey this is a place where all of england’s kings and queens have been coronated since william the conqueror yeah very rich history i was thinking about that picture that we just sewed a lot of

the headlines say in the paper today nora happy and glorious that picture was taken in may and she does look happy and glorious i think that’s a very lovely way to describe the image that you’re seeing right there look at that smile the actual funeral we should tell you is expected to last about one hour and in attendance and this was news this morning prince george and princess charlotte george is nine princess charlotte is seven this will be the first time that we see the queen’s great-grandchildren since her death 11 days ago we should

also point out that today is a public holiday here in the uk in honor of the queen who held a unique and timeless place in so many people’s lives today will be filled with tributes to an extraordinary reign the public has been encouraged to participate in a two minute what are we seeing here arriving now yes of course that’s the royal standard atop and that is king charles iii and of course um he is waving to the crowds it’s just extraordinary this morning yeah and i was thinking about the family this morning because they’ve now gone

through 10 days of this going from place to place everywhere they go they are greeted this way at the end of this ceremony today the public is being encouraged to participate the two-minute moment of silence observed around the country at the end of this morning’s funeral heathrow airport that’s west of london will stop all takeoffs and landings during the funeral so there won’t be any airplane noise that’s good last thing you want to hear is a engine running the country has come together in recognition of the queen’s remarkable

and remarkable is the word legacy with sadness respect and of course devotion we’ve seen a lot of that and now we see the new monarch king charles iii arriving at westminster hall where he is going to help begin this procession big ben ringing behind us and you will hear that every minute for the next 96 minutes yes and there he is there’s king charles iii oh as well as the heir to the throne he was prince william so the two of them in the car together nora i wonder what that conversation was like it’s a big day for them both

actually an incredible day i want to bring in holly williams who is with us here and just outside westminster abbey holly good morning nora good morning gail well for the last few days we’ve been seeing hundreds of thousands of people line up to pay their final respects to the queen as she lay in state in westminster hall very close to here i think that line was massively symbolic first of all you know it stretched for 10 miles at its maximum point people waited in line for 14 hours more than 400 people were treated by

paramedics more than 40 people were hospitalized people waited through the night they waited through the english whether they lined up along the banks of the thames river that snakes through central london it really represented just how loved and respected that petite softly spoken woman really was secondly i thought it was extraordinary the mix of people who wanted to pay their final respects to the queen that included last night president biden he didn’t have to line up you get special dispensation when you’re the leader of the free world

but also david beckham was in that queue famous soccer player he apparently shared pringles and donuts with other people who were waiting in line they came from all walks of life from all across the country and indeed from all around the world thirdly and i don’t mean this to be glib i think that was a reminder of how much people in this this country really like to line up it really is a national past time british people enjoy cueing as they say in this country holly we’re going to have to interrupt for just a second because we’ve got

pictures of pictures of the guests arriving today yeah just moments ago we saw for the first time uh prince george and princess charlotte nine and seven years old it’s the first time we’ve seen them uh since their grandmother’s death and they will be walking in the procession they will help bring in her coffin into westminster abbey these are other members of the royal family as well yeah the young prince and princess will be walking behind their parents directly behind their parents and then after that you’ll see harry and megan but i think

about these young kids nor for just a second you know on the day that it was announced that the queen died it was very much their first day of school tina brown is with us and tina we’re seeing members of the the royal family here yes coming in yes indeed um you know it’s been a momentous week for them a mementous ten days and of course uh the little prince uh george and his sister charlotte this is their first real inculcation into the royal training they’ve already appeared on the jubilee balcony but this is what they are going

to remember for the rest of their lives when they walked behind the queen elizabeth ii’s coffin it’s the beginning of their royal moment in a sense did they walk behind prince philip that day uh no they did not no i thought i’d heard that they walked behind prince philip but i’m thinking what a day for them and they just announced this morning that the young prince and princess will be will be participating yes that was new information there was some discussion i mean kate wasn’t sure whether she wanted to do that but the

decision has been made that they will that there’s they’re up to it which i think they are actually and the fact that there’s the two of them you know charlotte is always there although she’s the younger she always seems to be the one who’s sort of looking after george the the slightly bossy younger sister it’s very appealing nothing wrong with that historian and former bbc um correspondent wesley kerr and wesley this is the royal navy and the military will play a very large role today what a profound sense of history there is today

for thousands of officers involved from all the services so you’re seeing the royal navy will will pull the gun carriage this is the gun carriage that queen victoria traveled on to her funeral edward the seventh george the fifth the queen’s father mountbatten the queen’s mother immense history um winston churchill winston churchill which was the last state funeral in 1965 that the queen attended and prince charles attended um so we’ve seen most of the royal family gather in the abbey which is a few short yards from where these scenes

are here we see the um beefeaters and the omen of the guard um so shortly the procession will go from parliament there’s there’s there’s the queen the queen the dean arriving at the abbey so that’s a few hundred yards from parliament and shortly the procession will leave with his majesty and members of the family escorting the gun carriage and all the dignitaries are gathered in this astonishing westminster abbey this where the queen was crowned where her parents were married there’s there’s kate the new princess of wales with her wonderful

children i’m going to be in the procession which is an astonishing induction for them into the business of royalty one day george himself will be king um so just so much history in one place this abbey built in the 1060s 13 kings buried here four queens including elizabeth the first mary queen of scots but the last actual monarch we have his funeral here was 1760 so this is huge history in the making a day of days a day we didn’t want to see any of us in britain but but this is our last chance to to enshroud this remarkable

monarch in our love and to thank her in the first of three religious services that will end with her being entombed with her beloved philip and her parents and her sister in a baltimore you’re so right you’re so right wesley it is a day of days we’re gonna bring in julian payne he’s the cbs news royal contributor and former communications director for the former prince of wales now of course he’s king charles julian it’s good to have you here we know that this is another emotional day for the king and the royal

family i think that’s right you saw last night the king issued a statement talking about how deeply touched he’d been by the outpourings of um sympathy for from the public across the uk when he’s visited of course not just england but northern ireland scotland and wales as well and he said how touched he was in this in this time of in this time of grief you know it’s been a very long uh period of time for for them since the death of his mother but i’m sure that he and the rest of the family have been really comforted

um by the response that they’ve had from the public during this time and of course i think for him he’s been reassured that people have been so quick to take him to their hearts as as the new king that seamless transition of monarchy once again seems to be happening before our eyes julian there just seemed to be a a lot of good will towards king charles i’m still getting used to saying king charles here here comes the there comes queen elizabeth ii what is so moving about this is it’s really the last time we get to a wrap elizabeth in

the splendor of the nation’s pageantry you know this is the last time it’s a thousand years of british history it’s whole weight on the move and the imperial state crown made for queen victoria not the one she was crowned with but one of two that she wore on that day um with the orb and scepter symbolizing a relationship with god and also power and the the pearls on the imperial state qualm belong to elizabeth the first so what an incredible link with history and the royal standard so it it there’s a very powerful religious

element in this um and also a military element yeah the ceremonial wrapping elizabeth in glory on her last journey but i’m always so touched though by the the care and the precision that is taken in this moment and i look at these six these six men these six pallbearers and i’m wondering who gets that job wesley they’re her majesty’s guards the grenadier guards and i imagine i’m i’m i’m not sure there would be like a competition they would probably have to be like the best the best of their year and they will

remember this for the rest of their lives and what an incredible honour this is and tenderness about the way they do it a kind of a humble tenderness it’s a beautiful thing to see and she became royal colonel of the grenadier guards as long ago it was 1942 on her 16th birthday um you know her first military um command in the middle of the second world war not an active command but a really important symbolic position this has been a central thread of her life as has religion and service and just to describe what’s happening right now this

is just outside westminster hall where the queen has lied in state for four days and been viewed by i bet it’s going to be more than a million people by the end of the day when we learn and they are placing her coffin on this catapult and then the state gun carriage it’s actually 2.8 ton carriage which will then be pulled by the royal navy this will be the tradition involved in this because of course this has they’ve been using these same ropes since queen victoria’s funeral in 1901. yes in 1901 you’re going to

tell the story that um the horses were cold it was it was it was january i think at windsor and there was a way that something would go wrong that they would bolt so quickly um a young battenberg who actually turns out to be prince phillips um grandfather um said why didn’t he use the sailors so that’s become the tradition that that’s very typical of britain that something goes wrong and it becomes the tradition and given that and that it started in february tina i was watching the bbc this morning and they were interviewing some women

who are now part of the royal navy and will be the first women who have ever been involved in this tradition yes it it is a wonderful moment that women are being involved for the first time and of course the queen herself was so tremendously connected to the military you know she she came from a military family her whole her whole family has served you know her father her grandfather had children and she served herself and she served herself in the ats she learned how to how to strip an engine and and drive a land rover and that was

very bonding experience and the idea that we still had a head of state until two weeks ago who had served in the second world war her husband also was a distinguished distinguished sailor so this is the end of an era an area when britain had great imperial pomp and it’s its role has changed and she has presided over that change but yeah but the the military all of these people they’re none of them um just decorative all of these people serve and everybody has a role to play here no one there is no one who is not supposed to

be there i’m i just marvel at the precision of the of everybody who’s moving in unison and the procession starts now it will take i think 16 minutes um to go from the palace of westminster this across the historic west parliament square to the great west or westminster abbey where it will be received by the dean and the service will begin wesley they have done rehearsals they had to shut down the line this morning because they were going to rehearse for 45 minutes the queue officially stopped at 6 30 but

they shut down for rehearsal they really have this time to a t don’t they oh to be honest this has been rehearsed for decades um but they’ve often had to rehearse at night so here we see his majesty leading his sister his brothers his sons um peter phillips is another grandson of her majesty um the the the kings the old queen staff and the new king’s staff princess anne and andrew i love them the earl of snowdon who’s um her beloved nephew margaret’s son i love the way princess anne is the only woman in this group uh she often said

that being a member of the royal family for a woman you were an honorary man and you’ve seen her throughout in her military guard because she’s a patron uh of so many military orders tina i’ve loved reading so much about princess anne who’s known as the royal princess she was with her mother when she passed she escorted her coffin back to london from balmoral she’s been described as the hardest working royal apparently someone that even does more engagement sometimes even than the now king and sometimes sometimes she’s been known as the best

king we never have because you know she has the duty gene just like the queen but to pick up on what nora said i too read that she’s the hardest working royal but we don’t seem to know as much about her as we do her brothers why is that because she doesn’t care about publicity in fact she has to be reminded uh to pose for the press she she doesn’t want it she just works once she has the job the duty gene i heard somebody in the royal family once said we all love hospitals because they spend a lot of time going to events at hospital and wesley

we should describe who we’re hearing from now well it’s a marvelous scottish pipers and she had a personal piper who would play outside her window every single morning wherever she was and we will hear him later i’m giving a lament at the end of this service and also at windsor so whether the king will have a personal piper it’s a to be here and hear that coming towards us as we are outside the abbey and hear hear the sounds of this procession approaching us that’s so emotionally powerful well just as you said that there was a quick shot

of king charles who seemed and very emotionally moved um he’s not been afraid to show his emotion this last 10 days and in that sense he’s going to be a very different monarch to the queen whose whole life was about an inscrutable face we’re going to go now to mark phillips who has covered the royal family for years where exactly are you mark right now i’m in front of buckingham palace which will feature later in this very long day ceremony but when you’re looking at these glorious state pictures of a of a

national event they’re really melding together a ceremony for three audiences here and trying to satisfy all of them and it’s very good time to talk about one because first and foremost that is often forgotten is that this is the royal family compelled by tradition to mourn and bury its matriarch under the glare of the country and the world’s spotlight millions of people around the world watching this it’s often said the royals aren’t like you and me but there’s a test here that they’re having to go through the other audience of course is the

hundreds of thousands of people maybe a million who have felt enough of a personal connection to come out and spend as long as 24 hours at one point queuing up as holly would say lining up patiently over cold nights to pay respects to the queen as she lay in state oddly the people who spent those long cold nights falling aren’t the ones you’d normally expect normally you expect kind of die-hard royals people who come out for births and marriages dress up at the union jack and that sort of thing but there was some polling of

the people who were in these long lines so waiting to see the queen and it showed that they were a much broader group uh than the normal royal royalists who come out for this sort of thing mark and they were here to witness history and to be part of it yep and mark the queen and the entire procession what i find arriving just outside here of a smooth abbey terribly moving about this is her last state occasion for us if she could have chosen for herself she would have probably had a funeral as simple as prince phillips this is the

big state fuel for the monarch her last act for us i think we should pause and listen so so

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is prepared to be brought inside the west door here of westminster abbey firstly even this was done with such high high precision as they were calling out instructions exactly how to remove the casket and where to place it exactly and everything is is done for the last detail even the foliage rosemary for remembrance myrtle the symbol of a happy marriage um cut from a sprig of merkel grown from the majesty’s wedding bouquet and they’re from royal gardens and of course the coffin english oak so everything is planned to the nth detail

and she would have seen the plans and tina we should say that queen was very involved in planning this was she not i was reading in in the paper this morning the local paper where they said she said she did not want a long and boring service no she was all about short the queen and in fact you know of course she was a woman of simple piety herself and that’s what you’re going to see in the service but there is something about the fragile delicacy of this military ballet it’s so beautiful to see i can’t help but thinking about not only

what everyone in the united kingdom is thinking right now in her family this moment when she’s brought inside westminster abbey the place where she was crowned where she was wed this is a place of enormous cathartic and she once said that nobody should leave a christian service feeling sad so yes there’s grieving but there’s thanksgiving and there’s hope because she really did believe in life eternal that she would be reunited with her philip um say this is a service that she will have planned and she’ll have been to services for other family

members this was such a devout person this is the supreme governor of the church of england for 70 years the defender of the faith on her last but it’s so much more than being reunited with philip it’s her mother it’s her sister it’s her grandmother at the end of the day you know with all the pomp and circumstance as beautiful as it is we’re still more this is a family who is mourning a great loss and but they will get great comfort from this they all know this church and they’ve all been and when we see the service in

in the choir it’s amazingly intimate i’ve often been to services there with the royal family and all these events so they’re beneath the place where she was crowned you will see the incredible mosaic the cosmetic pavement 13th century and in the middle of that which represents um the the heavens it’s a cosmological symbol that’s where she was crowned and her funeral would take place yards from that in the same place she was married so there’s a sense of completion the funeral service is beginning now and as the queen’s coffin enters she would

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in grief and also in in profound thanksgiving we come to this house of god to a place of prayer to a church where remembrance and hope are sacred duties here where queen elizabeth was married and crowned we gather from across the nation from the commonwealth and from the nations of the world to mourn our loss to remember her long life of selfless service and ensure confidence to commit her to the mercy of god our maker and redeemer with gratitude we remember her unswerving commitment to a high calling over so many years

as queen and head of the commonwealth with admiration we recall her lifelong sense of duty and dedication to her people with thanksgiving we praise god for her constant example of christian faith and devotion with affection we recall her love for her family and her commitment to the causes she held dear now in silence let us in our hearts and minds recall our many reasons for thanksgiving pray for all members of her family and commend queen elizabeth to the care and keeping of almighty god o merciful god

the father of our lord jesus christ who is the resurrection and the life in whom whosoever believeth shall live though he die and whosoever liveth and believeth in him shall not die eternally who has taught us by his holy apostle saint paul not to be sorry as men without hope for them that sleep in him we meekly beseech the o father to raise us from the death of sin unto the life of righteousness that when we shall depart this life we may rest in him as our hope is this our sister doth and that at the general resurrection in

the last day we may be found acceptable in thy sight and receive that blessing which thy well-beloved son shall then pronounce to all that love and fear thee saying come ye blessed children of my father receive the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world grant this we beseech the o merciful father through jesus christ our mediator and redeemer oh

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so now is christ risen from the dead and become the first fruits of them that sleep for since by man came death

by man came also the resurrection of the dead for as in adam all die even so in christ shall all be made alive but every man in his own order christ the first fruits afterward they that are christ at his coming then cometh the end when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to god even the father when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power for he

must reign till he has put all enemies under his feet the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death for this corruptable must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality so when this corruptable shall have put on incorruption and this mortal shall have put on immortality then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written death is swallowed up in victory o death

where is thy sting o grave where is thy victory the sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law but thanks be to god which giveth us the victory through our lord jesus christ therefore my beloved brethren be ye steadfast un unmovable always abounding in the work of the lord for as much as we know that your labor is not in vain in the lord thanks be to god like us

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is god let not your heart be troubled ye believe in god believe also in me in my father’s house are many mansions if it were not so

i would have told you i go to prepare a place for you and if i go and prepare a place for you i will come again and receive you unto myself that where i am there ye may be also and whether i go you know and the way ye know thomas sayeth unto him lord we know not wither thou goest and how can we know the way jesus saith unto him i am the way the truth and the life no man cometh unto the father but by me if ye had known me you should have known my father also and from henceforth ye know him and have seen him philip sayeth unto him

lord show us the father and it suffices us jesus saith unto him have i been so long time with you and yet hast thou not known me philip he that hath seen me hath seen the father thanks be to god foreign

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come holy spirit and fill our hearts with the bomb of your healing love amen the pattern for many leaders is to be exalted in life

and forgotten after death the pattern for all who serve god famous or obscure respected or ignored is that death is the door to glory her late majesty famously declared on a 21st birthday broadcast that her whole life would be dedicated to serving the nation and commonwealth rarely has such a promise been so well kept few leaders receive the outpouring of love that we have seen jesus who in our reading does not tell his disciples how to follow but who to follow said

i am the way the truth and the life her late majesty’s example was not set through her position or her ambition but through whom she followed i know his majesty shares the same faith and hope in jesus christ as his mother the same sense of service and duty in 1953 the queen began her coronation with silent prayer just there at the high altar her allegiance to god was given before any person gave allegiance to her her service to so many people in this nation the commonwealth and the world had its

foundation in her following christ god himself who said that he came not to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many people of loving service are rare in any walk of life leaders of loving service are still rarer but in all cases those who serve will be loved and remembered when those who cling to power and privileges are long forgotten the grief of this day felt not only by the late queen’s family but all around the nation the commonwealth and the world arises from her abundant life and loving service

now gone from us she was joyful present to so many touching a multitude of lives and we pray today especially for all her family grieving as every family at a funeral including so many families around the world who have themselves lost someone recently but in this family’s case doing so in the brightest spotlight may god heal their sorrow may the gap left in their lives be marked with memories of joy and life her late majesties broadcast during covid locked down ended with we will meet again words of hope from a song of vera lynn

christian hope means certain expectation of something not yet seen christ rose from the dead and offers life to all abundant life now and life with god in eternity as the christmas carol says where meeks souls will receive him still the dear christ enters in we will all face the merciful judgment of god we can all share the queen’s hope which in life and death inspired her servant leadership service in life hope in death all who follow the queen’s example and inspiration of trust and faith in god can with her say

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god in confidence and trust let us pray to the father let us give thanks to god for queen elizabeth’s long life and reign recalling with gratitude her gifts of wisdom diligence and service oh god from whom cometh everything that is upright and true accept our thanks

for the gifts of heart and mind that thou didst bestow upon thy daughter elizabeth and which she showed forth among us in her words and deeds and grant that we may have grace to live our lives in accordance with thy will to seek the good of others and to remain faithful servants unto our lives end through jesus christ our lord amen confident in god’s love and compassion let us pray for all those whose hearts are heavy with grief and sorrow almighty god father of all mercies

and giver of all comfort deal graciously we pray thee with those who mourn that’s casting every care on thee they may know the consolation of thy love through jesus christ our lord amen let us pray for his majesty the king and all the royal family that they may know the sustaining power of god’s love and the prayerful fellowship of god’s people almighty god the fountain of all goodness we humbly beseech thee to bless our most gracious sovereign lord king charles camilla the queen consult william prince of wales and all the

royal family endure them with thy holy spirit enrich them with thy heavenly grace prosper them with all happiness and bring them to thine everlasting kingdom through jesus christ our lord amen in recognition of queen elizabeth’s service to this united kingdom let us rejoice in her unstinting devotion to duty her compassion for her subjects and her counsel to her ministers and we pray for the continued health and prosperity of this nation almighty god whose will it is that all thy children should serve thee in serving one another

look with love we pray thee on this nation grant to its citizens grace to work together with honest and faithful hearts each caring for the good of all that seeking first thy kingdom and its righteousness they may possess all things needful for their daily sustenance and the common good through jesus christ our lord amen let us give thanks for queen elizabeth’s commitment to the commonwealth throughout her reign for her service and dedication to its people and for the rich bonds of unity and mutual support she sustained

oh almighty and everlasting god hear our prayer for the commonwealth and granted the guidance of thy wisdom inspire those in authority that they may promote justice and the common give to all its citizens the spirit of mutual honor and respect and grant to us all grace to strive for the establishment of righteousness and peace for the honor of thy name amen we give thanks to god for queen elizabeth’s loyalty to the faith she inherited through her baptism and confirmation and affirmed at her coronation for her unswerving devotion to the gospel

and for her steadfast service as supreme governor of the church of england lord we beseech thee to keep thy household the church in continual godliness that through thy protection she may be free from all adversities and devoutly given to serve thee in all good works to the glory of thy name through jesus christ our lord amen let us pray that we may be given grace to live as those who believe in the communion of saints the forgiveness of sins and the resurrection to eternal life bring us o lord god at our last awakening

into the house and gate of heaven to enter into that gate and dwell in that house where there shall be no darkness nor dazzling but one equal light no noise nor silence but one equal music no fears nor hopes but one equal possession no ends nor beginnings but one equal eternity in the habitation of thy glory and dominion world without end oh

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so in confidence and hope let us pray to the father in the words our savior taught us our father who art in heaven thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil and the glory forever

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um let us commend to the mercy of god our maker and redeemer the soul of elizabeth our late queen heavenly father king of kings lord and giver of life who of thy grace and creation did form mankind in thine own image and in thy great love offerest us life eternal in christ jesus claiming the promises of thy most

blessed son we entrust the soul of elizabeth our sister here departed to thy merciful keeping in shore and so certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life when christ shall be all in all who died and rose again to save us and now liveth and reigneth with thee and the holy spirit in glory forever go forth o christian soul from this world in the name of god the father almighty who created thee in the name of jesus christ son of the living god who suffered for thee in the name of the holy spirit who was poured out upon thee and

anointed thee in communion with all the blessed saints and aided by the angels and archangels and all the armies of the heavenly host may thy portion this day be in peace and thy dwelling in the heavenly jerusalem amen uh so foreign

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god grant to the living grace to the departed rest to the church the king the commonwealth and all people peace and conquered and to our sinners life everlasting and the blessing of god almighty the father the son and the holy spirit be among you and remain with you always

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so so in a stunningly new moving funeral for queen elizabeth ii at westminster abbey this is the first royal state funeral

in westminster abbey in more than 200 260 years ending with god save the king and these bagpipes with us is julian payne who’s previously worked with then prince charles now the king this is noteworthy this is it’s a very poignant moment that is the queen’s piper who would play the bagpipes every day for the queen each morning wherever she was and she used to say that it reminded her of scotland when she wasn’t in scotland and he was a he was a very well he is a very well-known figure in her household so this is a great honour for him

and quite a poignant moment for the service let’s listen in for a moment and tina listening to those bagpipes just beautiful it’s so beautiful and as perfect as everything about the queen’s sort of public face has always been you know she’s united a fractious country of fractured family at this moment it’s so moving yeah it seems so interesting you know the first coronation when she was 25 i keep thinking about that tina twenty-five years that was broadcast live so it

feels very full circle that as we sit here today we are sending her off absolutely and her whole last weeks had this great act of completion you know she accomplished the jubilee she accomplished the appointment of her last prime minister her whole to-do list was done and now this funeral coming at this moment seems like this extraordinary circle uh being completed it’s it’s really quite remarkable julian we can’t help but notice during the whole service there’s a note on top of the coffin we’re all trying to figure out

what does it say who’s it from but you recognize the handwriting you said yeah i i i’m familiar with the handwriting that is definitely a message from the king to his mother from what i can see i think it says in loving memory um i may maybe prove wrong on that but but the wreath has as we mentioned before a very personal wreath with flowers coming from buckingham palace from clarence house from highgrove the king does do this when he went to visit the grave of his grandmother uh in 2020 he took a wreath from the garden

at highgrove to the mount of olives in jerusalem so it’s another example of bringing the personal touches to this deeply important national international moment julie and i couldn’t help but look at this fashion-faced family and the king appeared to be quite emotional especially when everyone was singing god save the king i think that’s right he is he is a man of great emotion it’s one of the things that i’ve often felt people don’t pick up with him often because he’s doing these state official moments but as an individual

you do see his mood he does wear his felt honestly and today is an incredibly sad day so so it feels no great surprise to see that it’s that you know written all over his face actually i can’t imagine though what it’s like for the family it’s hard enough to to lose a close family member when nobody knows who they are and nobody knows their name but to to have to grieve so publicly and repeatedly over these last 10 days i would think that it would take a toll on everyone i think that’s right in in some ways though my sense is that they will take

some comfort in the sympathy and the outpouring that comes from the public it will it will comfort them and and some of this structure some of this formality will will give them support as well because as you can imagine when these moments have passed and the king and the rest of the family have moments for quite reflection i think that’s when it will go back to being their own memories and their own moments they’re sort of in in between the two at the moment of course what was really stunning in this service was to hear for the first

time a prayer for queen camilla i mean that is the first time those words have been uttered and such a validation for her and for charles who has wanted this all of the last you know 30 40 years and of course camilla the greatest reputational turnaround in history because she was so unpopular back in the days just in the 90s as late as you know as recently as that she was very unpopular but ever since she’s been married now to him for longer than diana and she’s proved for him essentially what philip was for the queen his

strength and stay as she put it she certainly seems to have been embraced by the public too completely embraced by the public uh you know she’s done what philip did and he said you know the thing to do is to look up look out say less do more that’s what she has been doing with all of her great charity work she has done and she has really proved that she can pull it off it’s extraordinary let’s bring in wesley kerr and wesley this has been extraordinary to watch this funeral and everything that was said it was it was short relatively and

that’s what the queen wanted she always liked services to be under an hour most of her engagements were under an hour but there were many engagements many of her favorite hymns the prayers she would have known and what the archbishop said was so moving death is the daughter glory he talked about that pledge she made when she was 21 when she said my whole life whether it will be long or short should be devoted to your service and he said that rarely has a promise been so well kept he said that few leaders have been so successful

and her example was not through her ambition or her position but who she followed and she followed jesus he said her service had its foundation that he said she was a leader of loving service who didn’t cling to power and privilege so there’s a lesson you’ve got all the heads of state in the world there and there’s a lesson in her life how many of them will have a funeral like this so it’s it’s surrounded by the trappings of state and we’re going to see almost astonishing procession out of the abbey and then the last journey from london

1.3 miles with the royal family following but in the end she’s wreathed in the love of the church and the people and now we’re going to see her hand it over to the people on the way to windsor read in our love well robert lacy’s joining us now he’s a cbs news royal contributor biographer advisor to netflix the crown is with us and you know robert there’s a rich tradition of royal funerals in britain all right we’ll work out the audio with robert in just a second we couldn’t hear him i’m just i’m just done looking at

the family i am too nora walking behind the the coffin there andrew i mean he is the queen was his great protector uh from everybody and now he’s bereft of that protection and for the first time he released a statement the other day yesterday about his mother yes he said she was uh called her mother mummy your majesty was actually very touching because you felt his sense of loss that he’s no longer has her as his shield just as the nation now has a new king so the family now reorientate around a new head of the family it was the duke of

edinburgh of course who famously was the head of the family and then he passed away and it was the queen now everybody gathers around around the king and one of the things that struck me in this service is this is obviously the queen’s funeral but it ends with a everybody seeing god save the king yes and that to me is that it exemplifies this continuation from one sovereign to the next the monarchy does not stop there are different people that inhabit the role and just as we’re saying goodbye to one we’re already singing

praise for the next one but julian there’s there seems to be the consensus that he is well prepared for this role he’s been somebody said to me it’s uh in the line yesterday they said it’s the longest internship anyone has ever had but do you think that he is prepared himself yes i think it’s one of those things that he knew that he would have a long time as prince of wales he was very keen that he didn’t just wait until this role came his way and i think he’s worked incredibly hard to make that time as prince of wales very

fulfilling and and valuable unlike his mother of course and unlike his grandfather he knew that he would be king it took changes in history for it to come to the direction of those people before him so i always felt when i was talking to him although he didn’t talk about it a lot when he talked about moving up one as he would say this was something that he knew was coming and he knew how he would want to approach it but his mother is so beloved do you think that gives added pressure to him i think that he more than anybody else

knows that this is uh he follows in the footsteps of somebody who is not just another monarch is almost the monarch of of modern times i therefore don’t think he will be thinking about how i follow her he’ll simply be thinking about duty and services how they approach it is this is a job i’m asked to do i will do it for as long as i’m required to do so as long as i have left on this planet as he has said uh and then it will be the turn of the prince of wales and then prince george after that he’s also proved i think

already that you know he is a great statesman charles he knows all of these heads of state when he had that reception at buckingham palace this was a reunion of many friends in the sense don’t forget he also met and spoke with winston churchill and every world leader since then as well and i i saw how he handled his statecraft when there were people of many countries in a room together he is extremely experienced and that is i think whilst he’s he’s not the youngest uh king to come to the throne that experience he brings with him will

be really fantastically useful in fact he’s the oldest to come to the throne yes i i wasn’t going to dwell on the age well that when age brings experience with age it brings experience and of course in speaking with um david cameron and other prime minister said they had a private audience which were called practice audience with him so yes he is in many ways has been practicing for decades for this role and has met just as many foreign ministers in fact as as anyone the irony is he’s a very fit 73 yes very fit 73. he he is someone who um

would be out walking daily and i can tell you as someone that had to try and keep up on those on those walks it’s not an easy thing to do um he is he may be 73 in years but he’s he’s half that in terms of his fitness it’s quite extreme wesley this is quite a moment as we’re seeing the coffee moment i’ve seen her majesty walk out here so often it says it’s heartbreaking but the sun has come out as as the coffin leads westminster abbey for the last time this place she loves so much um the gun carriage awaits so we’ll see a reverse of what we saw

earlier but a much longer procession so we’ll see her majesty go past um whitetall and downing street into horse guards parade the precincts of the palace where so often she was there for trooping the color and then along the maryland pass buckingham palace for the last time up constitution hill and then then the public they’ll be enormous crowd says there’s the dean about to say good goodbye to her and the procession about to begin with his majesty and wesley our own holly williams is right there holly laura while witnessing this powerful

symbolic historic funeral were representatives from around 200 different countries the mayor of london sadiq khan actually pointed out that it’s been decades since so many world leaders have come together in one space it really was a who’s who inside westminster abbey of presidents kings queens and other heads of state that of course included president biden but also royals from spain belgium denmark the netherlands norway sweden the emperor and empress of japan and what a sermon they heard from the archbishop of

canterbury justin welby wesley touched on it he said there was a pattern for leaders to be exalted in life but forgotten in death that’s a message for dictators if ever we’ve heard one and he contrasted those who cling to power and privileges with the queen’s own life of service also notable was those who were those who were not present today uh president vladimir zelinsky of ukraine could not come he’s fighting a war against an invading russian army his wife the first lady olena zelenska came in his stead and not invited today was

the president of russia vladimir putin holly williams thank you again a very somber moment here as the queen’s coffin is placed back on the gun carriage nora i always say this job gives us a front row seat to history and we really do have a front row seat as we’re sitting here from our vantage point just over our shoulder we can see the queen’s coffin being loaded we can see them leaving the church and it really is a very thrilling and i have to say really very moving moment just to see this it really isn’t of course it’s the last queen

we’re going to say goodbye to for a very very long time the next two uh kings are coming next and uh you know tina and julian i have many british friends who have been saying to me nobody can do this the way we do and i’m so proud to be british today do you all feel that as well totally totally it’s just astonishing um it’s how she would have wanted it and it’s how we like it don’t forget she was the head of all the military services and all those people working today will want to discharge this last duty for her

impeccably and it will matter so much to them i remember when i was in the royal household for the duke of edinburgh’s funeral it was the same thing and also the royal household itself they will be working incredibly hard to send her off and not make a single mistake and really make this an incredibly special day that card that is atop that wreath of roses that was chosen by the king says in loving and devoted memory from the king as he placed that note and wesley i want to ask you as we watch this too about the orb the scepter the

imperial crown atop the these are the symbols of of her majesty’s high office that the imperial state crown was actually designed for queen victoria and it’s the second one that she would have worn on coronation day she would have been crowned with edward’s crown dating from 1661 and and that’s when the scepter and orb date from so after the civil war the crown jewels had to be remade but but but there’s some of them said i think on queen in on the imperial state crown it has queen elizabeth’s pearls on it so there’s artifacts going back to

ancient history and these are symbols of office and that crown will be refitted for king charles it also shows i think that tradition is not about the curation of dead things that somehow it’s actually about the continuation of life itself and there is something so deeply moving about all of this pageantry it’s not flummery it’s it’s it’s history on the move you know i noticed that two of the queen’s granddaughters eugenie and beatrice and their note said we just thought you would always be there yes and that’s

this feeling i think that’s because the queen was through world war ii through the beatles through the internet age the long arc of her history and this beautiful music that we hear now it’s breathtaking now it’s interesting to hear her actual grandchildren say we always thought you would be there everyone in the line said we can’t imagine life without her she’s the only queen the only monarch i’ve ever known and will know and the sentiment was repeated over and over and of course for nine out of ten of the people living in this country today she

is the only one that they’ve ever known because of those 70 plus years it’s extraordinary right almost we knew the seasons by where she was you can absolutely predict where everybody will be because their lives are planned six to 12 months in advance so you know absolutely when they’re to be in different places and even at what time and the the television shop right now is on the coffin as it should be but we can see now the rest of the royal family getting into cars most of the women including the queen concert to travel

behind but walking behind the coffin will be some members i believe of the royal family we’ll see them shortly this of course the royal navy 142 members that are helping to pull this gun carriage extruding not horses members of the royal navy this is going to be about 1.7 mile procession through central london wesley well it is 27 miles but the first 1.

3 miles on the gun carriage and as it were on foot so slowly through royal london and then the last 25 miles through the people’s london so without having to go through security barriers although none of the people that we’ll see today have had to be searched which is just amazing um but but they’re not in the secure area once it gets to the wellington arch and it will move to the hearse and then i think we’ll see hundreds of thousands of people in hyde park and in west london and in windsor for this last chance to say goodbye on a

route that the queen knew so well this was her this was her weekly commute in from winter to london off and on exactly the same route and we’ll pass so many places she she was walked in a para ambulator in high park when she was young so it’s her life and her routine as we’ve been hearing about the routine through the year that there’s a routine through the week so for the last time she leaves her beloved capital and we say goodbye to her with great love and warmth can we say job well done thank you ma’am god bless you

seven decades of service including i think we can agree that she succeeded you just saw shots from the canadian mounties there which just reminded me there is a whole commonwealth dimension to this as well more than 50 countries of the commonwealth that she was the head of and as well as the 15 realms where she was head of state as well so this is happening in the uk today but this is the queen of australia the queen of new zealand the queen of canada queen of tuvalu vanuatu the list goes on so this is something which is truly

truly a global moment and it’s great to see those commonwealth countries represented in the service today and then and in the procession mount is gurkhas from nepal troops from new zealand that you know they’ve they came here very very quickly and they’ve been while jet lagged they’ve been rehearsing for this but they’re so proud to take a part of it but as we mentioned that 1.

7 mile procession they will walk that part until they get to wellington um arch that will be the king and of course the other three children of queen elizabeth i want to bring in robert lacy he’s a cbs news royal contributor and robert your thoughts as you’ve just watched the funeral in this procession along with us well you can just see just an incredible i read that there will be 4 000 members of the u.

s military they are part of this procession one thing we haven’t talked about is what you can’t see as much as the amount of security in order to protect all of the people of london and the more than million um people from not just the united kingdom but around the world who have come here to witness this moment and then of course this incredible ceremony now let’s talk about the security guys for just a second because they said that they were expecting at least two million people to come to to the area today to witness this they

have it’s the largest security operation ever that they’ve had in history over 10 000 police officers we met many of them up close and personal as we were traveling at 4 30 this morning things are very locked up very tight they’re checking all the credentials it does feel very safe here i have to say i mean very few of the officers of course armed and none of the people who we will see in these crowds would have been individually searched here so so this is an element of jeopardy but there’s an awful lot that goes on behind the scenes

you know at home we think of the president of the united states as the commander-in-chief but here the queen is the commander-in-chief which is why we see this and now the king this extraordinary military display correct absolutely so it gives us an impartial focus of unity you’ve got a non-political figure who’s at the head of the state and the head of the armed forces and all the people that served in her majesty’s forces through this long reign felt an incredibly close personal bond with her majesty so above politics and i think the king

continues that there’s the queen’s most sacred annual uh duty she was laying the wreath on the cenotaph uh she only ever missed it i think once when prince charles or twice charles had to do it for her but that was her most secret thing because she really connected with the military and felt she was bound by that whole world war two ethic with them well she you know commander in chief as you say was was her role and and laying the wreath on behalf of the nation was that really really significant moment and i remember a few years ago when

that job was passed on to the then prince of wales it felt like another significant moment although of course she remained queen right to the very end but she was gradually bringing in her family to support her in those duties in later life but julian how often do you get to see service and duty and faith and family all coming together under the under the the reign of one person all of it also such a united connection which is when people ask what the point of the monarchy is we’re now seeing what the point of the monarchy is which is

it’s above politics it’s above all of these things and bring everyone together right that role meet that banner head of state head of nation head of the church head of the army i mean this is not this is not a small job and you have to give your focus to all of those things and absolutely that was what she did over over 70 years and the military was at the core of it she was from a military family and the royal household as much as the military around it was run along those lines it was an extremely well organized

and well-oiled machine and i’m sure it will continue to be by the way military training does the royal family very proud because the stamina they all have it’s also about that military training let’s listen in for just a moment so so so all right we’re seeing a procession that

could really be described as the people’s farewell mark phillips also has a front row seat mark what can you tell us it’s just kind of interesting the way that this whole ceremony has been framed bookended almost we started with the religious ceremony and of course the family grieving uh in the in the uh the abbey but this part of the ceremony is really a farewell tour for the business side of the queen’s life and the queen’s work it’s taking her through the ceremonial boulevards of royal london it’ll take her right up the mall and right by

buckingham palace which of course she used to call the office because she preferred to live out in windsor and then take her up constitution hill outside of the royal parks area and that will be the end of her in royal london the transfer then 25 miles out to windsor where she’ll back into the royal environment for the internment for the service and then the internment uh with philip who died last year but this this is kind of the people’s farewell to the queen this is where the people who are lining these routes in the same way as they lined the

procession when the coffin was brought to westminster hall last week in the same way as they’ve been lining up but to view the coffin for the four days that it was lying in the states this is the people’s last time to bid a farewell and to say goodbye as we’ve said over and over again to the only queen many of them have ever known but these ceremonies kind of have evolved over the years and i’m here with robert lacy who’s a royal historian and biographer i mean this kind of thing doesn’t get done very often but when it

gets done boy does it get done well thank you very much the british are good at it as wesley said this current set of regalia go back to the 1660s after we briefly tried a bit of republicanism and decided it wasn’t for us and i was struck by the way in which next time we see these regalia the crown the orb the scepter well we’ll see them this evening taken off the coffin and then next time we see them ceremonially will be what in nine months or so next summer whatever it is for the coronation right of the new king

so the continuity you’re referring to the history it’ll all be then seen in in a new light and you’re right the queen’s reign will be passed and everybody will be focusing we’re going to get new coins we’re going to get new stamps we’re going to give you new money with all sorts of new digital things on them but a new monarch’s face as well but it is it’s continuity in personality the next three generations the current next two generations of royalty were on parade here as well certainly in king charles uh in prince william and in the

young prince george we have three men in a row to look forward to coming up but even in terms of the the continuity of the family it’s the continuity of the symbolism represented in the scepter in the orb in the crowd and in this kind of ceremony but there is also the challenge that the new king’s going to have to face of changing that to a certain degree and in a way we’ve seen that already his most important visits have been to scotland northern ireland and also to wales where there are serious demands for devolution for separation

and actually if if the monarchy has one important political role at the moment in in british affairs is to preserve a sense of unity and prevent us see what happens thank you robert lacy thank you and thank you robert we’re glad to hear from you when he said the money is going to change can you imagine all the people that are running out now just to get a little some kind of money myself included that includes the queen’s face before it changes julian he said that the coronation and tina that the coronation would be nine

months from now why nine months what is that timeline about can’t wait that it would take one of the one of the things is it’s a it’s a ceremonial moment and and there are obligations in terms of the amount of daylight hours that you need which will which will push you into the spring and the summer there’s also other things which happen in the calendar and it’s actually quite hard to land that day when it doesn’t suddenly bump into other things so traditionally there are moments in the year when you can stage events like this

and they tend to be spring summer and i think that’s why we’re being guided towards that date now i think there’s also a sense that with the year which we’ve had the jubilee this extraordinary funeral there needs to be a careful think about what the coronation will offer perhaps a more spiritual dimension i have to say that looking at this i’ve decided that the great british talent isn’t for literature or philosophy or gardening it’s actually for military choreography um i don’t think there’s anyone else who could put

on this i mean you have to ask will anyone ever be loved by the nation so much again i think your point about the coronation you know perhaps being different is is definitely true the king will be very mindful of his philosophy of a slimmed down monarchy of value for money and not wanting to look out of kilter with the times and these are difficult times we’re going to go into a very difficult winter all of us and i think that he will be really mindful of how that coronation should look and feel it mustn’t be discordant with what’s

happening in the world many people wonder what does his version of a slim down slim down monarchy mean who is involved in a slim down monarchy understays who goes is that a fair question yeah i think you you saw uh an early a trailer if you like in 2012 and that those that were on the balcony since then we’ve had some changes with the duke and duchess of sussex making their lives in america they’re no longer available as working members of the royal family so we’ll probably see other people coming in but it will be a smaller

number and there you see princess charlotte and prince george along with queensland monarchy there it is with the queen ten years from now that’s what we’ll be talking about they look quite somber and of course they’re on the mall right now right now which of course has been was created to honor queen victoria and you can see buckingham palace beyond there and has just gone past a little a few moments ago 10 downing streets as well and having prince george and princess charlotte there bear in mind that that would have

been a decision from the prince and princess of wales and they are very careful about how much exposure they give their children to the media but this will matter to them to allow their children to be part of you know their great grandmother’s funeral that that’s important for them as well as they decided to let little louie stay home he’s four he had a big somebody gotta get everybody got a kick out of him earlier this year and tina i mean what kind of powerful message does this send to have prince george who is second in line to the

throne be here today it is the statement that this tradition that we’ve been seeing is going to continue i mean in the same way that child steps so flawlessly in william will step flawlessly in we don’t know that george will step floor to see him maybe he’ll say i don’t want any of this that will be a tone-up but are you allowed to say that well it has happened before with edward viii but uh that was for the love of a woman that was for the love of those two i don’t want this job but i think you know that you’re gonna see uh this has

already formed the kind of um tapestry of his mind you know he’s this is his first big royal moment these are small layers which go in from the earliest of ages when you start to become that new generation of the royal family i don’t think you could have ever said to the to the now king when did you first start to realize that you were going to be king i think it came with consciousness yes in a sense for him and i do have to say in the jubilee when prince george looked out over the crowd i saw a tiny moment

of alarm on his little face as if to say oh no i think well i think they’re still adjusting i know that the prince and princess of wales have been have been really careful to to try and keep their lives as normal as possible but explain to them there is this other side of what mummy and daddy do and and and that gradual gradual introduction i think will be is the kindest way to do it well also their great-grandmother has died you know someone that george called gangan you know and um referred to her very sweetly and we

heard uh the princess of wales telling mourners that that she had been talking to her children about what this loss meant and she shared that uh with people and you know as they just pass in front of buckingham palace that’s of course the statue to queen victoria right that big gold statue that you see right there and and we were talking about this tina this is really queen elizabeth ii was the last female head of the house of windsor yes it does turn out that women are very good at this job right elizabeth the

first queen victoria they get name they get they get errors named after them yeah right the elizabethan elizabethan era the victorian era and i think even for those members of the family who who aren’t monarch the female role models in that family are hugely important they are in many ways i think the connectors behind the scenes and and i think that you see the sort of the family dynamic is facilitated by the the women within the family as well as carrying out all their own state and nation work and their support of all

their philanthropic activity it really is a very sophisticated role that they play within the institution you know it’s interesting when you talk about the children i’m fascinated by that because from a child’s point of view when you lose your great-grandmother one of the children said yeah but now they’re together now they’re whatever they called prince philip what did they call i i don’t know i suspect probably papa or grandpa yeah probably not great granny but they were saying that now the two are together

prince philip what did the children call prince philip the younger children grandpa they were saying now they’re together and i thought there was something very sweet about that they understood that that closeness of that family i mean the queen’s own family you know her father used to talk about we us four but about the queen and margaret and now us four she’s going to be buried with us for with of course philip joining yeah so they’re all going to be together it’s very touching actually that desire to be together in that crib it’s their

family but this is their normal don’t forget as well i mean i remember talking what are we looking at now this is this is the official entrance to the palace it’s it’s horse guards parade where the guard is changed daily and when you go through that arch you’re in the court of saint james but you’re also into james’s park so they’re now going as it were from religious and political london into royal london one last time across royal london through these parks and in a way she’s presided over theoretically her majesty

owns or owned the royal parks yeah i just thought that was an interesting shot i wanted the viewers to know what we’re looking at julian please finish the point you were making well i think the the for the grandchildren great-grandchildren and grandchildren this is their normal so as you are growing up in this family you can’t get outside of that bubble and when um people ask about the king and the queen console one of the great things about their relationship is queen console had 50 years of her life living outside the royal bubble so she’s this

fabulous bridge of being able to go into the institution which she’s now been married to for 17 years and translate the outside world in and just help the king know what feels like it’s acceptable what’s normal just bring a bit of normalcy inside it because if you’re prince george you can never truly get out of it as much as your parents will try and make things as regular as possible how normal can it be right absolutely and if you saw that with william and harry all through their lives they’ve tried in a sense to have a

quote normal time but essentially they are the kind of the prince’s next door if you like what i think also must be happening from william is you know he he as a child when he was at eaton a young man at eaton he would go and have tea with the queen and she would really talk to him about the royal role and sort of lead him by example and by stories of how when she was a 25 year old mother she took over and he loved hearing those stories so he’s also as you were talking the point about absorbing i mean they’ve

absorbed all this in this very organic way and i know that uh the king spends time with his grandchildren particularly up at burke hall in the summer and i’ve been told of delightful stories of the king holding george by the hand walking down the corridor and showing him red squirrels that have crept into the house when they’ve left nuts and things for them to eat but this lovely image of grandfather and grandson holding hands and sharing stories themselves so that we’ll repeat we’ll see that again with the new king

i’m sure julian you spent time with the household staff recently can you of king charles can you share what they’re thinking how they’re feeling yeah i mean like the king they’re all pretty tired but i think they’re they’re they’re really really pleased that how well the ceremonial has gone and everybody is really delighted at how the affection of the nation does seem to be transferring to the king very naturally very seamlessly so i think inside the household everybody is determined to do the best they can for

the uh for the queen and also to set up the king for his reign in the best way possible so a lot of a lot of tired faces a few bags under eyes but but a lot of a lot of um satisfaction as well and wesley place us where we are now where the procession is and the significance so we’re going past the memorial to um the guards who sacrificed their life in the first world war and we’re just leaving horse guards so this is where her majesty on her official birthday would would ride in a carriage procession with the family and

she’s so this is where she would arrive and now she’s leaving for the last time and that would be where the official birthday was celebrated with an amazing military parade and 6 000 people watching um so she’s going back towards the palace to pass it for the last time i remember um being at the queen’s birthday parade at buckingham palace and seeing them when they all came back in and what you never saw away from the cameras is that afterwards the um the staff would come out with carrots on a silver salva which the queen would feed

to the horses to say well done well done yeah again with amazing military precision and it was a very joyful occasion for her the official birthday the military parade and then all the family gathered on the balcony for the flight pass but that will be a diminished family and a smaller family group anyway tonight they’re going to have the very personal burial after all the pomp and ceremony is over that’s going to be the time when the emotions can finally speak strictly family no tv cameras i think they i i think they deserve that

after having been presenting the whole uh activity for the public under that scrutiny just to have that moment just that final moment to say goodbye as a family i think will be hugely important for them i was touched to read that when charles went to highgrove uh for that one day in between all the pomp and ceremony he actually went to the little chapel in his garden at highgrove and spent some private sacred moments thinking about his mother like his mother he is a very spiritual man and yes there is that there is a

place in in the grounds at highgrove where he can go and pray and reflect and i’m sure that that one day will have been vital that’s going to carry on i’m sure for a long time i mean we all know losing a loved one takes a long time to adjust to and i it will be no different for them we’ve been talking about the billions around the world that are watching this live on television the millions gathered here in london raymien asensio is there amongst the many who have turned out on the mall raymie hi nora yes there is a wave of

anticipation rising amongst the crowd here i talked to many people as they arrived here earlier today and you named the emotion they were feeling it people said sorrow of course the passing of queen elizabeth ii but a lot of people over the past 10 days of national mourning have shifted to the emotion of celebration of her life everything that she did over her 96 years another person i spoke to said that she was excited to be here to share it with her five-year-old son but she also wanted to tone that back with that

said everyone here is just expectant anticipating right now watching what you’re seeing live right now the tens of millions of people watching across the united kingdom making their final farewell to their queen remy and ascencio thank you let’s bring in roxanna seberry she is in hyde park where people have been watching this on big screens i understand the parks are full roxanna we’ll have been watching the proceedings here today quietly solemnly and very thoughtfully on this big screen behind me they’ve been speaking in hushed tones some

patting each other on the back to comfort them it’s pretty much what you would expect at a funeral except here there are tens of thousands of people and let me ask sam to just pan over a little bit to see the crowds some have started to fill it out filter out but many still remain to watch the funeral procession i’ve spoken to a lot of families you can see there are a lot of families here parents told us they brought their children because they wanted them to be part of history and also because they see the queen as a role model one that

exemplifies hard work and sacrifice as one woman said the queen couldn’t clock out at 6 pm in fact she didn’t clock out of her job for 70 years in addition to hyde park where we are today’s events are being shown on screens live across the country at cathedrals and squares and you just heard a minute gun fired here in hyde park by the king’s troop royal horse artillery people told me they wanted to come here because they wanted to feel like they’re part of a community to be part of this moment that is greater than

themselves and also to publicly express their gratitude and grief for the queen and soon we will see the procession passing by the southern end of hyde park which isn’t far from here which will give people one last chance to say a final farewell to the queen lauren gail all right thank you roxanna we’re going to go now to holly williams she is at westminster where the procession is passing by we were talking earlier holly about security and how tight go ahead that’s right we’re actually just seeing the guests pouring out of

westminster abbey now there were around 2 000 people present for the funeral and with so many presidents kings queens and sultans this was an unprecedented security operation it was apparently the most complex security operation that has ever been staged in this country and that includes the 2012 london olympics the mayor of london sadiq khan said the authorities were juggling and he said quote there could be bad people wanting to cause damage to some of our world leaders so far everything seems to have gone smoothly

there are around ten thousand police officers on duty including many armed officers that’s unusual in this country police officers don’t generally carry firearms there are also around 1500 military personnel drafted in and one of the very interesting security measures was that most world leaders were bussed from a different location to westminster abbey one notable exception made was president biden who was allowed to drive his regular armored car which is known as the beast one british official was quoted as saying that this event

was akin to organizing around 100 state visits all at the same time i know holly i was going to pick up on the buses because the the leaders the prime ministers royalty aren’t used to being put on shuttle buses like most of us are do you have and we saw president biden of course and the beast did you hear any reaction from them about how they felt about that or did they just think look we are here for the queen and that’s all that matters i didn’t hear anything directly i guess you’d have to ask them i think you’re

right i think for some of them uh it would be a humbling experience and you know i think being a humbled leader is one of the things that the archbishop of canterbury talked about during his sermon but i should say that actually at william and kate’s wedding we also saw members of the royal family bust to westminster abbey yes it’s royals they’re just like us thank you very much holly but i also have one message for all of those heads prime ministers you are temporary yes you’re going to be gone soon this is

what it actually looks like to be there for 70 years dream on guys get in your bus and behave and there is king charles iii on this almost two mile walk this procession um and this ring of steel is what the security is being called and it’s 23 miles of barriers that have been put up to control the massive crowds that are here in london but you know nora the crowd is so well behaved yes i have to tell you no matter where you walk there are large numbers of people i went to go look at the floral display yesterday we were down by

westminster abbey looking at the people who were in the queue the line to see to see the queen and everybody is so thoughtful and so careful and so respectful that’s what i’m looking for so respectful tina does the popularity of queen elizabeth transfer to king charles well i think he’s done an incredible job of getting into that space left by her immediately and filling that space with that sense of continuity of sovereign but i also think that the beauty of this pageant has really kind of concealed the tectonic nature of this shift we are now

unquestionably in the new era the next era the post-elizabethan age and in a moment you know things have stopped for a second but we are in this very turbulent time will charles be able to be what the queen was which was this extraordinarily calm presence this soothing’s presence you know above all of that we’ll see i mean you know he’s actually a great statesman compared to the new prime minister who’s very inexperienced i mean in that sense it’s good for him because it makes him look even more a person of stature it’s

interesting there’s been some early polling and and although the family themselves don’t don’t use and rely on polling he he has his popularity has shot up actually in the in these last 10 11 days so um they don’t live by poland but i’m sure they’ll be aware of it and they’ll be reassured to see that some people may have read that last night there was an extraordinary gathering at buckingham palace emperors kings queens all together in a in an occasion that had many people worrying about some diplomatic mishaps

of people bumping into each other who’ve had conflicts in the past and don’t place certain people next to certain people because there’s still some bruised feelings well there weren’t because they were allowed to roam freely which was one of the interesting things about who would engage with one another and tina it’s a reminder of the soft power of uh the monarchy correct bringing people together like that that would that would may be enemies in the past or enemies now there is no one else there is no other institution no other person

that could convene a gathering like that and no one else that could create this kind of focus right now except perhaps the opening of the olympics you know i mean we’ll never see that kind of convening power ever again i don’t think but that’s important because we now have it’s been many years since there’s been a head of state for the uk travel abroad and have state visits the queen stopped travelling in i think 2015 2016 and so for the first time on the international stage the uk will be able to get out there again and really bang

that drum and these are important times you know we’re in a post-brexit era we’re all recovering from the pandemic that opportunity to bring a little bit of what we see here around the world will be fantastically useful i think for for the uk do you expect the king to travel absolutely absolutely i think that not just the king but i think you’ll see the prince and princess of wales guessing around the commonwealth pretty sharpish pretty quickly actually i read in one of the papers that they had mentioned they’re already planning a

trip to australia and new zealand yeah anxious to get out and about after the pandemic where nobody’s really traveling prince and princess of wales the king and bean the king there there’ll be it there’ll be a whole uh all the plans that were on the table would have been torn up they’ll sat down again now and said okay we have a king a queen we have a prince and princess of wales we have a commonwealth we have realms to cover how are we going to sequence that and that will be a really important piece of work i mean

you think these last 10 11 days have been hard work for them they have got several years ahead of them of getting around the whole globe and really establishing this new era this new reign and it’s going to be a hugely busy time for them the king is going to greatly enhance i think the soft power of england because everyone is going to want to host the first royal visit of the king and he has got an enormous calling card right now but it is it’s it’s magic i i traveled abroad with them usually a dozen or so countries a year

for for six years everywhere you meant went there’s something different about a royal visit because it’s not political it’s not a celebrity it’s something that’s rare and everybody is interested in it and it brings everybody from the members of the public to heads you know heads of the state you’re going to visit i remember going to italy and it being absolutely pandemonium wherever they went and this was before he was in the so-called top job and it’s an uncomfortable topic but do you think the king and the queen

concert will have will address the problems that people have with the monarchy when they talk about colonization and slavery and lack of acknowledgement about that you know many people say the queen did address it some but that she could have gone further and i know it makes people it is uncomfortable but i think that there are many people that still feel very hurt and feel left out about how how she reigns sometimes well wesley i want to hear from julian too i think the queen addressed it for her era so in that post-war period it was all about

decolonization it was about the empire going in normally voluntarily some in some cases unwillingly so beginning with india um and the indian subcontinent and then africa so 45 countries achieved their independence and at that stage that was enough for them that that was where the energy went and many chose to keep the monarchy like the country that my my parents came from now in this new area but now so that there’s got to be looked at again now charles is is very up for that really and we saw that in barbados when

he was there when they chose to to to become a republic that stayed in the commonwealth it’s not going to be so easy in other countries in jamaica they need a referendum to do that in canada it needs the majority of all the provinces and so i i think that it’s not going to happen quite as quickly as people think um be partly because the monarchy is reconnected in these countries as well but it will be by consent it will be by these countries consent the monarchy buckingham palace will not resist it but he seems to be aware that

is an issue would you say he he is absolutely aware that this is an issue he he’s followed closely everything that’s happened these last couple of years and the shift in sentiment at the core he understands that if he serves people he serves at their at their discretion and he’s been very clear i remember talking to him about this thinking oh what can we do to kind of should we be doing something to keep these realms going and his view was absolutely not if it is what people want me to do i will serve if it is not

that’s the right thing for them and and he gave a speech as recently as the commonwealth heads of government this year where he said it will be a matter for each country to decide their relationship with with with the monarchy he will take his his he will take cues from them that’s how to proceed all right and all i think stay in the commonwealth i think that’s an important point which which is this year common association of which they chose unanimously to make him the next head of it in jamaica where there’s an issue they

want to um have a referendum but they put their foreign secretary up recently to be head of the commonwealth all right we want to bring in mark phillips mark phillips hello again the queen’s coffin is making its way to you it’s making its way to a very important juncture in this whole day it’s approaching the top end of the mall toward the victoria monument and to buckingham palace which as we said earlier was what the queen used to refer to as the office it’s where the business of the queen takes place and now the king

takes place he just talked about how there was an important reception here the other night that king charles now headed this is where the business of monarchy happens and there’ll be a big change people are anticipating now in how that business is taking place largely because with the queen you know the queen never gave an interview we never knew where she stood on any of the issues uh of the day charles we know almost everything about everything that he thinks his his opinions are are tried and true particularly as they affect uh the

environment and he’s against industrialized agriculture and that kind of thing he’s very much an environmentalist king and he will have a kind of power you mentioned soft power he will have the power that monarchs here have because of their special stature and that is the power to convene he’ll bring people together there’s a hush descending now i must say as the cortez including the coffin approaches the palace here because this is such an important moment it’s where the business of royalty is being transferred to charles robert lacy the

historian and royal biographers with me again and are we seeing something can we feel change in the air here it’s almost as if we can yeah you’re right about the business of monarchy of course king prince charles proved himself a very shrewd businessman in raising money for his charities and we can presume the same thing will happen there is talk for example that he will actually open up buckingham palace for the public they’re changing the guard at buckingham palace and charging christopher and charging to see christopher christopher

robin and alice will have to pay when they come uh that is the way monarchy survives we’re looking here um sorry i think i said this before it’s a proud brit there’s no monarchy in in europe that does it better than this so though let’s not forget this is not the only monarchy in europe um some of the most rational and civilized countries in europe like sweden and norway and holland denmark they all see the virtue of a constitutional monarchy that keeps patriotic feeling emotion separate from politics all right but nobody does it like the house of

windsor we talk about the bicycling monarchies of scandinavia and that kind of thing nobody well maybe people want to see prince william on a bike but i don’t think they want to see king charles uh on a bike it’s this kind of glorious ceremony that distinguishes this monarchy from all the others do you think that will survive do you think as part of this discussion of slimming down volume for money we’ll see less of this sort of thing i don’t think we will see less of this sort of thing because another aspect of these military parades

around the palace and the guards at the palace they are potent tools for the recruitment for the british armed forces the prestige of belonging to a regiment which isn’t just called after your local county but it is headed by princess anne or or even prince andrew and certainly by prince william um all of this is another aspect of the fabric of british life that is kept together and strong robert lacey thanks very much gail all right thank you very much mark phillips sunday times royal editor that’s roy anika attended today’s

funeral and joins us now you’re the only one in the room that was actually there in the room tell us take us there what was it like it was it’s hard to put into words what that was like it was one of the most extraordinary hours of my life i think it was incredibly moving it was solemn but it was celebratory i thought justin welby’s sermon was wonderful on point sticking to sort of the importance of her faith there were so many personal moments seeing the little horseshoe brooch that princess charlotte was wearing a gift from the queen

it was incredibly moving of course seeing the whole you know royal family behind the coffin we were seated we were incredibly lucky we were very very close to her majesty um very close to the catapult and so we had a clear view of it and the congregation were just incredibly moved by the whole thing it was an extraordinary occasion so you had a very good look at the note we were talking about the note that was on top of of her coffin charles’s notes yes which said in in loving and devoted memory charles are of course we’re all

getting used to seeing that and actually the singing the national anthem at the end it was incredibly rousing it was very very poignant but everyone still is trying to get used to singing god save the king and just as the crowd was seeing god save the king the camera hand to the king’s face and you could see him well up he looked ashen faced through most of um the funeral service as is expected he’s lost his mother but also it felt like as he said when he addressed parliament he felt the weight of history i think

that’s absolutely right you can see it there in his face now this is a man who for the last 10 or 11 days has mourned publicly he has barely had a moment in private uh you know we’ve seen him out and about on maneuvers going around the four corners of the united kingdom and we know that billions of people are watching this today and of course he has to put on this incredible you know strong front but it must have been extraordinary for him to be you know in the abbey where he was for his mother’s coronation and now at her funeral

i’ve been thinking about the family a lot because whenever you lose a loved one that’s very close to you you do just want it to be over you want to go through the you want to have the ceremony and you want it to be over and normally it doesn’t take 10 days so i just think what it’s like for them 10 days to have to grieve so publicly and still put on the face for everybody what kind of toll do you think that’s taking on all of them really i think it’s taking an enormous toll on all of them i mean we have seen some great

shows of unity and united front from all of them which has been fantastic but i think you can’t blame this behind the scenes they’re exhausted and i think that’s why we’ve got this huge you know committal service which is going to be watched by everyone at windsor but i should think they are all absolutely desperate for that moment tonight which is private the private burial where finally they can lay her and the duke of edinburgh to rest without anyone watching and the significance of prince char prince george who’s nine and princess charlotte

we all got a kick out of watching them why do you decided that why do you think the parents decided that they would be included today well my understanding from uh williams and catherine’s team is that that decision was made yesterday um but it was really up to whether the children felt they wanted to be there and i know that william and catherine have been speaking to them a week there’s been no pressure at all despite the world wanting to see the symbolism of the future king george at his mother at his grand great-grandmother’s funeral

there was no pressure it was a call they made personally and did they attend um prince philip’s uh funerals um they did attend his memorial service um they were that much younger than us a year and a half ago and i think nate charlotte is incredibly young she’s only seven years old they were unbelievably poisoned again she seems very poised she’s she she just flipped man admonishing her brother from time she’s like she flicked her hair she walked into the abbey i saw composed herself was unbelievable walking she walked in

the procession at the age of seven she reminds me of the young queen when churchill first met the queen at the age of two he commented on her extraordinary gravity and her poise and i do feel somewhat the same about princess charlotte you know that she has got that same quality well she has some good role models she has some accents and of course princess anne is now going to become a huge influence in this whole show and there they are as they approach the queen victoria memorial right in front of buckingham palace

and to see them in the car there with queen concert camilla and the princess of wales on this procession and i imagine we’ll see some photos later of the crowd’s reaction but at one point we saw people clapping as the queens you know is a way i think that many people are thanking her for her incredible service let’s talk about the queen consort camilla because she certainly had a change of fortune we were saying back in the day she was considered very unpopular people went so far to say you know home wrecker you

know home breaker but that she seems to be held in very good stead now with the public and with the family i think she she is both and i think that is years and years of hard graft but it’s also been years of people actually finally learning and and coming to know what the real camilla is like what is what is the real community she’s very warm and she’s very fun and um she she’s fun she is fun huge fun of all the members that she’s a huge fan of all the members of the world whenever i see her we chat about horses

um you know is this members of the the household paying their respect and right now in front it looks like wesley can you see that i know there are i know there are members they’re members of the public services so you’ve got police you’ve got nurses you’ve got nhs um so i i think they’re very much people that the queen wanted to include in the procession the queen council but she’s very fun i’m struck by that we don’t know we we we know very little about her so she’s she’s great fun she she will actually you know she’ll wink at you she’ll i

like that she’s always got a glass of red white in her hand on engagements in the evening and she loves to smoke up the chimney so it just feels a little cigarette and smokes at the chimney but i think it’s insane at the same time you’ve got to remember this is a woman who didn’t want to be queen or think she was ever going to be queen and perhaps that’s something she had in common with our own late monarch who was born not thinking she was going to be queen tina what does that look like she does love to kick up with her family

you know she keeps her own house in ray mill house in wiltshire and it’s interesting that she’s maintained that house that’s the place she can go where she can just kick off her shoes have her family around for raucous supper parties you know in the evening and just be you know dispense with all the stuff because you know if you’re at highgrove with charles you’re never really alone i mean you know she could go she could be in her curlers and you know walking around banging to some you know aid for charles and she loves to go to her own house and

just not have to do any of that does the king go and stay at her house not really not much i mean that’s her place that’s her solace she goes there with her family and it’s not that far from high growth but it’s you know she gets to escape so it’s her own female cave it’s her own every girl should have one and she has over her over her you know her in her dining room she has a big portrait of her grandmother uh you know mrs keppel who was in fact the mysteries of edward the edward vii so she has this no i just picture her

tina you know with a glass of wine that you said roy and uh smoking a little cigarette just saying this feels pretty good and with family she loves having her her children her two children laura and tom and her i think she’s got four or five grandchildren she loves having them at raymale house as tina said because i mean she gave an interview where she said it’s the only place it’s the one place she could be herself and be off gt one place where she doesn’t have boards of staff um and it’s much less form it’s

not formal at all raymond it’s not like high growth which is full of childhood staff it’s just where she can go and be herself take off the crown and look at her children when you said children i forgot of course she has children will they be incorporated into the royal family or royal duties no no so laura and tom both have completely private life they’re incredibly close to the king um but they will have no formal official roles at all and last night this release by the palace of this video of camilla talking about

um the queen in very personal terms what was that meant to do she wanted to really give her own sort of personal uh memory of her but she also made it you know a point that no one else has made which is how much she respects and admires the queen for being the only woman at that time who was in this great sea of men everything she did a 25 year old monarch she was in this incredibly male monarchy surrounded by men all the time but she managed to carve her own way i loved one of the anecdotes from that statement um that the tribute last

night that camilla gave about the queen was on her she said on her wedding day or near her wedding day she went to see the queen and i was really nervous and and left home with heels one with a two-inch heel one with a four-inch completely the wrong shoes and the queen spotted her hopping along and just started laughing and said don’t worry about it and i just i love that camilla brought the humor of the moment to attribute to the queen yes she had she shared a lot of interest with the queen i mean you know camilla’s madly keen on

horses which the queen was so they shared that bond and i’m sure that the camilla will take over the queen’s role at ascot when she was the center point of that and as we see the queen’s coffin as well as the gun carriage the entire procession approached buckingham palace i want to bring in mark phillips who is there mark we’ve we’ve seen them go around the front of buckingham palace really significant moment uh in this whole day what we’re witnessing here as they turn up constitutional hill and leave the palace behind is the transition the

business transition the functional transition of the monarchy from the queen to the king and the different style that he that he might bring to this she’s got another half mile three quarters a mile or so to go within the confines of royal london at that point she’ll transfer into a hearse and be taken on that trip through west london and out toward windsor where the family service will be held and where she will be interred but what we’re really seeing here you know they say that this this is a country with never without a sovereign the last

heartbeat of the dying sovereign the next heartbeat is of the living sovereign the queen is dead god saved the king that’s exactly what happened 10 days ago but the real transfer of the authority of the monarchy is what we’re witnessing here and in the symbolism of the queen passing buckingham palace where the business of royalty is so often carried out and now moving away from it leaving it for charles and the queen consort to make of it up what they will yes mark phillips thank you very much i want to bring in

holly williams to talk about more of the members of the royal family we also saw um prince harry and meghan markle today that’s right now and i think with the queen’s death we’ve seen uh two almost contradictory things happening with harry and megan on the first hand on the one hand the queen’s death has sort of highlighted their very divergent paths with harry’s close family members so prince charles is now king charles he’s now on the throne prince william is now the prince of wales heir to the throne their roles are more important to the

monarchy than they’ve ever been before on the other hand you have harry and megan continuing to pursue their very different path which is in california and their philanthropic and business interests so their paths are more divergent than ever before on the other hand the queen’s death has brought family together and we’ve seen harry and megan playing very prominent roles i mean they were at buckingham palace when the queen’s coffin arrived uh they were in westminster hall when the queen began her process of lying in state uh they

were here today and and they did that walkabout outside windsor castle with william and kate with look which looked like a return to royal duties more than two years after they left i think it’s quite fitting in a way that the queen’s death is perhaps the beginning of a mending of bridges between harry and megan and the rest of the family since holly williams thank you and want to bring in lorna olivier who is the chair of the royal scottish country dance society and was inside the funeral here at westminster abbey and and lorna

how did you know the queen well the queen was the patron of the royal scottish country dance society she first became patron when she was princess elizabeth and then when she became queen we she added the suffolk the prefix of royal scottish country dance society and she herself dances i was going to say did you ever see her dance i never personally saw her dance but we have video of her dancing at balmoral castle which of course is where she sadly died but how did she do she was wonderful she has a real feel for

the music and the dance and and where were you seated inside the abbey i was featured in the nave and so i had a lovely view of everyone processing in oh there’s a queen dance and yes i had a lovely view of everyone processing in and out and and the moving moments of the coffin going past as well how did you think king charles looked he looked ashen phase to us i said yes it’s it must have been a pretty awful week for him i think he’s handled it beautifully i’m very very impressed at how smooth the changeover

has been and just how how much he has thought about the people as well as his own family he seems to right now have a lot of good will with the people don’t you think yes i i fully agree uh and i also think william i think the monarch is in good hands yeah i mean roya you know the the king has big big shoes to fill because his mother is so beloved and we were saying do you think he feels tremendous pressure for that or do you think he’s just ready both i think i think they are impossible boots to fill nobody could fill them and i think

nobody expects him to but at the same time he has been the longest apparent in british history he’s had an unbelievably long time to think and prepare for how he wants to do this role so of course there is enormous pressure on him she is elizabeth the great she was the greatest monarch of the modern age perhaps of all time in british history he knows he can’t replicate that he’s not going to have the time to do it and i think nobody will ever actually have the same affection with the british people around the world that the queen

did but i think he will he’s re he’s ready he’s ready what struck you most lorna about the service today i think it was the atmosphere in the abbey and the there seemed to me to be a perfect balance with it giving what individuals would want whether they were scottish english or irish welsh whether they were from the commonwealth or from around the world and i think the balance also between the religious side and just making sure that we paid our duty due to respect to her majesty for all that she’d done i thought the words were

beautiful as well as the music and the atmosphere i i will never forget and it was such a privilege and an honor to be there it was quite a collection of the world’s most powerful importance and the fact that you were there as part of the scottish dance society i mean the queen seemed to have many interests we always heard about the dogs and the horses this is the first i’ve heard about scottish dancing forgive my ignorance i have no idea what that is it’s uh it’s uh it’s traditional dance that goes it goes back

a long long time and we don’t we dance in sets of eight so we it’s the social dance uh unlike unlike highland dancing which is more performance it’s a social dance so our motto is fun friendship and fitness so you have to be pretty fit to be able to keep we should do that fun friendship have you done it i love all of those words i’m not i’m not okay with scottish dancing but i’m willing to learn yes and then the music does it that’s it with all due respect it looks a little bit like what we call the dosie dough

yes back at home but uh lorna thank you so much what a privilege i love that you came with visuals because i thought it was the irish dance where they’re dancing by themselves and i couldn’t envision the queen doing that i can see very clearly what she’s doing there very nice thank you very much indeed thank you for coming thank you want to bring in roxanna saberi who is at hyde park with a grandfather and granddaughter who came to watch today’s events roxanna yeah norah there’s still tens of thousands of people in here in hyde park

watching the day’s events on big screens and you can hear some of it coming out of the speaker here some people came last night they actually camped out since 7 p.m i spoke to one family that did that but many others came this morning like harry and his granddaughter ellen harry why did you want to come with your granddaughter out here today well i i felt it was important to her to have the memory of the queen what kind of memories do you think you’re going to have well mine are going to be short-lived but wonderful ones

because you know she’s reigned for 70 years and she’s hardly barely put her foot wrong in that time and that is some achievement what do you make of all the people here wonderful wonderful i’ve been down to celebrate uh jubilee previously okay in 2012 and uh didn’t come to for the last one but uh i wanted to come to this because it’s a huge change with charles having waited for so long no king king charles yes now you have a good king ellen why did you want to be here today um i think because there won’t be another queen for a long time so it’s

like a big moment because there’s going to be kings for like the next three generations or something so the queen was 96 and you’re 12. you told me yeah how could you relate to her well she was really nice and she always cared about the public a lot and she did what was right for the country what are you guys going to do next you’re going to watch the procession well we were hoping to have got down on the mall this morning but that didn’t happen because there’s so many people here to celebrate and to mourn the queen

so we will now just take in the atmosphere wherever we end up thank you both okay and alex nice to meet you nice to meet you too so these are just two of the tens of thousands of people who have been here at the park some are heading down to the procession the funeral procession which is just a few minutes walk from here back to nora gail thank you roxanna we’re going to go to charlie dagetta he’s along the long walk at windsor castle where thousands have gathered they are waiting for the queen to come back to windsor i was told when

we were there a few years ago that this is one of her favorite places and then i hear balmoral is also her favorite place but you were there charlie tell us what’s going on well it’s certainly her favorite weekend retreat and for the past couple of years since the pandemic struck it has essentially been our primary residence but yes she’d rather be here than above the shop at buckingham palace and what’s been happening here this morning tens of thousands of people have been gathering they’ve been watching on these big

screens one of those every 100 yards or so leading all the way up to windsor castle itself and when i say tens of thousands of people it’s hard to estimate exactly how many people are here because we’re going to swing the camera around if we can all the way down to the beginning of the long walk 2.

63 miles it’s just been packed and there are more people arriving by the minute you can see them passing through security here and they’re arriving from all over the country you’ve spoken to people who have been here overnight in order to get their positions to get the front row uh but there are people that have come from north northern england most of the people that we’ve spoken to here actually from windsor and the reason that’s important is because the queen would spend her time here every sunday she’d go to chapel so to them it’s like losing a neighbor as

well as losing a queen prince philip used to ride through here so they would see the king and the queen excuse me prince philip and the queen repeatedly through windsor great park here so there are a lot of people who feel like this personal connection and what’s poignant about this particular part of it there will be the final excuse me the final ceremony here at windsor at st george’s chapel but this will be the last time that they’re able to see the queen and this is what makes it poignant it makes it powerful it makes

it real and it’s a sort of shared sadness when they were watching the service here you could hear a pin drop and it’s just a sense of belonging here at windsor castle as you point out charlie that’s where the procession will end up this afternoon and for many people who don’t know describe windsor in the windsor estate because um the the prince and princess of wales william and kate have just moved there to adelaide cottage right and soon or at some point they would move into the castle correct and harry and megan also

live there too when they’re when they’re in town they have a place frogmore which is very close to where uh william and kate live yeah well that’s exactly right and of course this has been a place where we’ve seen royal weddings charles and camilla were married here we were here gail you were here when harry and megan were married so this is a place of great celebration and it’s a home again mark phillips has said it repeatedly that buckingham palace is kind of the office this is the closest home outside of buckingham palace in london and it’s a

huge grand estate there are 39 monarchs that have been inside this castle it is the longest uh castle it has that has hosted royal families in the nation and for a place that’s steeped in history like that that says a lot about windsor castle so it’s a place that’s very close to the queen’s heart very close to uh william and kate as you mentioned and also harry meghan and it we talk about this windsor great park this is just a tiny fraction of it so behind that is where you have frogmore cottage and other residences and it’s a place where

you know the royalty has been able to in a weird way get away you know it’s the place out of town so it’s within reach of london but it’s also a place where they have privacy they don’t have to be on you know parade we’ve heard several announcements like that so they’re they’re telling people not to throw flowers as the procession passes they’ve also been trying to encourage people to move down from the castle itself and move down closer to the front so they can sort of spread out the crowds but as like as i told you i

mean these crowds have been gathered and gathering in number throughout the day charlie dagetta thank you outside windsor castle nor i think it’s too late to tell people not to not to bring flowers or throw flowers because that’s their way of showing their love and respect for her yeah then as we mentioned they will process there after going through wellington arch which is what you see right now and charlie brought up harry and megan and roy anika is here with us you’ve done a lot of reporting this weekend there has been a

lot of focus on the two of them there has been and i did write a lot about it at the weekend for the paper i was pretty plugged into uh what’s going on um and it’s been difficult uh i don’t think anyone’s trying to pretend it hasn’t we have seen what’s great is we have seen shows of unity from the whole family and from both brothers for the last 10 minutes on both sides wouldn’t you say on both sides absolutely i think harry and megan have done everything that’s been asked of them um and you know it’s been good to see

both of them actually embrace sort of in in the royal fold but it it hasn’t been easy i know you know at the weekend that grandchildren’s vigil um with the queen i know harry felt very sad that his grandmother’s initials had been removed from his uniform that was tough for him he didn’t expect that how are they removed it’s a good question still not entirely i mean there are there are military there’s a lot of military protocol there there is miniature protocol but the the commander-in-chief the king can also

make exceptions let’s bring back in wesley curse with us because the significance of what’s happening right now and there we see again prince george second in line to the throne and princess charlotte third in line along with the queen consort and we’re now about to come to the last formal moment of the procession in royal london so this is the the wellington arch which was is kind of the entrance to the court we saw horse guards at the other end of the park and now those your viewers that know london well will know where

approaching hyde park where hyde park corner and once upon upon a time for much of the rain it was a private area but there you see the mems of