:00:19. > :00:26.Hello and welcome to The One Show live from Buckingham Palace, with
:00:26. > :00:30.Matt Baker. And Alex Jones. We are in these gorgeous surroundings by
:00:30. > :00:34.Royal and attention to help launch a special concert to mark the
:00:34. > :00:39.Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Tonight's guest is fit for royalty as he has
:00:39. > :00:49.been given the honour of choosing the artists who will perform. He is
:00:49. > :00:53.
:00:53. > :00:58.tinkling the ivories in the music # Weary laugh. Gary, thanks for
:00:58. > :01:02.joining us in these posh surroundings. Do you know why I was
:01:02. > :01:07.playing that? It is one of the Queen's favourite songs. I don't
:01:07. > :01:11.just randomly play that number. Just before we came on air, Gary
:01:11. > :01:15.was entertaining the audience here. This has to be one of the grandest
:01:15. > :01:21.places you have played. It is beautiful but it is what I'm used
:01:21. > :01:27.to! As Matt said, you have got responsibility of being chief
:01:27. > :01:32.Booker for the biggest concert. Are you feeling the pressure? Now you
:01:32. > :01:36.have mentioned it! Will be all right. Shortly Gary will give us
:01:36. > :01:40.all the details on how you can enter a ballot for tickets to the
:01:40. > :01:44.spectacular concert to mark the Diamond Jubilee in June. It will
:01:44. > :01:48.take place outside Her Majesty's front door with the likes of Tom
:01:48. > :01:52.Jones, Elton John and Paul McCartney. If everybody has the
:01:52. > :01:57.same chance of getting in invite as tickets are not on a first-come
:01:57. > :02:00.first-served basis. Her also coming up... The moment we took to the
:02:00. > :02:05.floor to perform a dance together right here in the palace. How we
:02:06. > :02:11.have dusted down our dancing shoes. Her what a debut! You can see what
:02:11. > :02:13.happened later. Dan Snow has been finding out how major royal
:02:13. > :02:18.celebrations have changed over the years.
:02:18. > :02:23.We are pretty good at pageantry. In fact, the British do a big royal
:02:23. > :02:28.event better than anyone. Concorde coming in with the Red Arrows.
:02:28. > :02:32.would imagine that monarchy and ceremony have marched in perfect
:02:32. > :02:37.harmony throughout history. But the relationship between pomps and the
:02:37. > :02:41.Palace is more chequered than you might think. Certainly in the 16th
:02:41. > :02:45.and 17th centuries, monarchs like Henry VIII and Charles the second
:02:46. > :02:49.revelled in public displays of grandeur. By the mid- 19th century,
:02:49. > :02:53.the pageantry had been getting less and less frequent and frankly we
:02:53. > :02:59.were terrible at it. One aristocratic Observer watch Queen
:02:59. > :03:03.Victoria open Parliament in 1860. He was extremely unimpressed. "some
:03:03. > :03:09.nations have a gift for the ceremonial. In England, the case is
:03:09. > :03:13.the reverse.". Queen Victoria hated royal magnificence and shunned
:03:13. > :03:18.public appearances, but within 40 years, the British had rediscovered
:03:18. > :03:22.their gift for pageantry, culminating in Victoria's
:03:22. > :03:26.spectacular Diamond Jubilee. What changed and why? Alastair Bruce is
:03:26. > :03:29.an expert on royal ceremonies. There was a need in the 19th
:03:29. > :03:33.century to make the Crown much more available to the public's
:03:33. > :03:38.understanding. Queen Victoria, having hidden away after her
:03:38. > :03:42.husband died, was persuaded to use history and pageantry to put itself
:03:42. > :03:45.back on the stage. It opened up the dressing-up box. They brought up
:03:46. > :03:50.the traditions of Britain and covered it with gold, a purple and
:03:50. > :03:54.red. Through the great events like the golden and diamond jubilees,
:03:54. > :03:58.Queen Victoria becomes the obvious and visual personification of the
:03:58. > :04:02.great monarchy in the centre of this enormous empire. If Queen
:04:02. > :04:06.Victoria has Jubilee celebrations were the beginning of the new-age.
:04:06. > :04:11.Royal traditions were reinstated and reinvented as the British once
:04:11. > :04:16.again celebrated their monarchy in extravagant style. This magnificent
:04:16. > :04:20.Star Gold State coach is around 250 years old, but for much of
:04:20. > :04:23.Victoria's reign they did not seem much use. She found it too
:04:23. > :04:29.distressing to use the Net -- right in it. At the beginning of the 20th
:04:29. > :04:33.century it was used more often. If this symbolises Britain's growing
:04:33. > :04:39.reputation for pomp and pageantry. That was cemented by a new
:04:39. > :04:44.tradition, the grand ceremonial of a Royal Wedding. There used to be -
:04:44. > :04:47.- they used to be private affairs, but in 1922, when Princess Mary got
:04:47. > :04:52.married, George V made it a public event by staging it in Westminster
:04:53. > :04:57.Abbey fought off so royal ceremony is not set in stone. It evolves to
:04:57. > :05:02.suit changing times, a process that has continued during the current
:05:02. > :05:06.Queen's reign. Peter Whittle has studied how royal celebrations have
:05:06. > :05:10.been transformed. Her they are still in essence the same, we still
:05:10. > :05:15.have carriages and balcony appearances, but there are subtle
:05:15. > :05:21.alterations here and there. If you look at the Silver Jubilee in 1977,
:05:21. > :05:25.there were a massive number of carriages. It is very Victorian. By
:05:25. > :05:29.the time of the Golden Jubilee, more minor members of the Royal
:05:29. > :05:33.Family went in a big minibus. In the past couple of decades there
:05:33. > :05:37.has been more emphasis put on the Queen and her immediate family and
:05:37. > :05:42.is not so good necessarily to have a massive extended family on
:05:42. > :05:46.display. For Golden Jubilee was a far less aristocratic occasion than
:05:46. > :05:51.previous royal celebrations and included a parade that was about
:05:51. > :05:55.the people rather than simply for them. We had biker's, people from
:05:55. > :06:00.the Notting Hill Carnival, floats representing each decade. It was
:06:00. > :06:04.much more of a festival. It worked very, very well and the way in
:06:04. > :06:08.which it was presented, with these pop concerts, and with this parade,
:06:08. > :06:13.really showed the monarchy was trying to evolve in the way it
:06:13. > :06:17.presented itself. Last year there was another massive occasion, the
:06:17. > :06:20.Royal Wedding. That could boost the diamond jubilee celebrations.
:06:20. > :06:25.there are long periods between these events, people essentially
:06:25. > :06:29.forget what has to happen. Because we had a Royal Wedding last year,
:06:29. > :06:33.it acted as a curtain-raiser for the Royal -- Diamond Jubilee. I
:06:33. > :06:41.think we are going to see possibly the biggest royal occasion for 60
:06:41. > :06:46.years. Be prepared for the Diamond Jubilee to be a huge celebration of
:06:46. > :06:49.a remarkable 60 year reign. It will stretch from one end of that land
:06:49. > :06:59.to the other. It will be spectacular and it will be a party
:06:59. > :07:03.fit for a queen. There you are, Brian May was
:07:03. > :07:06.definitely the stand-out moment from the Golden Jubilee. You are
:07:06. > :07:12.integral to organising the diamond jubilee. How will you topic? They
:07:12. > :07:18.will have to fly me in. For me or Russell Grant! A on a piano.
:07:18. > :07:22.Fantastic. This is a hugely important week, but this isn't
:07:22. > :07:27.special day. 60 years to this very day when the Queen arrived back
:07:27. > :07:31.from Africa. The first time she arrived in Britain as Queen. Her
:07:31. > :07:36.landing at Heathrow. The most amazing thing about this is she
:07:36. > :07:39.gets greeted by Winston Churchill, her first prime minister. The first
:07:39. > :07:43.of 12 prime ministers she has worked with and granted an audience
:07:43. > :07:47.to. We have to remember that was a sad day for the Queen because she
:07:47. > :07:52.had just found out her father had died the night before. Absolutely,
:07:52. > :07:57.wearing black. We are in the music room, which like all of the palace,
:07:57. > :08:02.is steeped in history. Why is this room at so monumental? It is the
:08:02. > :08:08.music room, it has great acoustics. It has this gorgeous... It is like
:08:08. > :08:15.an Aladdin's cave. Three are sitting here, this is 1790. The
:08:15. > :08:18.French Revolution was raging. tell! It is sold. We saw during the
:08:18. > :08:22.film, it is difficult to work out which position you should be in.
:08:22. > :08:28.you sit back, you can't touch the floor. A lot of christenings
:08:28. > :08:32.happened. The chapel of Buckingham Palace was destroyed during the
:08:32. > :08:35.Blitz. They had nowhere for christenings so Prince Charles was
:08:35. > :08:40.christened in this room. He is sitting on his mother, then
:08:40. > :08:44.Princess Elizabeth. That began the tradition and Prince Andrew,
:08:44. > :08:49.Princess Anne and then Prince William were christened in here,
:08:49. > :08:55.using water from the River Jordan. A very special room for the family.
:08:55. > :09:01.And the famous creature of the Queen and the Obamas was taken last
:09:01. > :09:05.year. From Winston Churchill to Barack Obama. Incredible. Just over
:09:05. > :09:09.700 rooms in this palace and every single one is steeped in history.
:09:09. > :09:15.Over 50 guest bedrooms. Play your cards right and you might get a
:09:15. > :09:22.room tonight! 19 reception rooms. All of the rooms are appointed with
:09:22. > :09:25.this incredible furniture and paintings. Thank you. The biggest
:09:25. > :09:32.event at the Palace this year it is of course going to be the diamond
:09:32. > :09:38.jubilee concert. Gary is one of the chief party planners. We keep
:09:38. > :09:42.piling it on. You at home have a chance to go to this concert.
:09:42. > :09:47.Anita Rani with all the information you need. -- here is.
:09:47. > :09:52.It is going to be the concert of a generation, and exclusive ticket
:09:52. > :09:56.for an evening with some of the world's biggest artists. The
:09:56. > :10:00.diamond jubilee concert will be taking place on June fourth right
:10:00. > :10:04.here in front of the Queen Victoria Memorial at Buckingham Palace. It
:10:04. > :10:11.will be the centrepiece of the celebrations and when I say it will
:10:11. > :10:17.be huge, I mean it is going to be massive. The event has an amazing
:10:17. > :10:22.line-up. The ones I can tell you about our Tom Jones, Shirley Bassey,
:10:22. > :10:27.JLS and Elton John, to name a few. It will be a wonderful show with so
:10:27. > :10:31.many great artists. It runs the gamut of British musical history. I
:10:31. > :10:35.have never performed outside Buckingham Palace. It will be fun.
:10:35. > :10:39.It is an extremely important historic event. I was extremely
:10:39. > :10:43.honoured to be asked. It is not just Gary Barlow who Her Majesty
:10:43. > :10:50.the Queen has appointed to key rate the concert. There's another
:10:50. > :10:55.familiar name in charge, Robbie Williams. Not that Robbie Williams!
:10:55. > :10:59.But after working with many in of music's biggest names and staging
:10:59. > :11:02.huge events from Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday concert to the
:11:02. > :11:07.Queen's golden jubilee, this man certainly knows how to entertain
:11:07. > :11:11.you. There are 10,000 tickets being given away, where will they be
:11:11. > :11:15.seeded? We will be removing the plants from the flowerbeds and
:11:15. > :11:19.building large stands for the audience and there will be 5,000 in
:11:19. > :11:23.each of those stands. They really are hot tickets. They should be
:11:23. > :11:28.fantastic. Hopefully one of the finest concerts ever. I are you
:11:28. > :11:32.excited? Yes. It is not often you get to put on and a concert in
:11:32. > :11:37.front of Buckingham Palace. I always like doing something
:11:37. > :11:41.challenging and this is certainly a challenge. This is the really
:11:41. > :11:44.important bit. There will be a ballot of 5,000 pairs of tickets
:11:44. > :11:49.and each ticket holder will be able to nominate a guest, but how do you
:11:49. > :11:53.get your hands on them? Everyone has got a fair chance. Tickets will
:11:53. > :11:57.be randomly drawn after the closing date in a way that reflects
:11:57. > :12:04.population spread across the UK so tickets are not first come first
:12:04. > :12:14.served. He can enter the balance on line. -- you can enter the ballot
:12:14. > :12:22.
:12:22. > :12:26.To apply, you must be 18 or over. The applicant needs to have a
:12:26. > :12:31.residential address in the UK. can also buy it if you have a
:12:31. > :12:36.British PO Box address. Remember, there's no rush. There's as much
:12:36. > :12:42.charges being selected whether the application is received today or on
:12:42. > :12:45.March 2nd. The Queen's Diamond Jubilee is going to be the nation's
:12:45. > :12:50.celebration and the concert will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
:12:50. > :12:53.Whether you're a lucky enough to have a ticket or if your party her
:12:53. > :12:58.nylon at home, it will be a right royal knees-up.
:12:58. > :13:03.Indeed. You have Plan B concert before. Maybe not on this scale.
:13:03. > :13:07.What do you do? Do you ring up all the artists individually? I was
:13:07. > :13:11.asked to do this six months ago and one of the first things I wanted to
:13:11. > :13:15.do was change the look of the stage and that is why it was in the back
:13:15. > :13:18.garden last time. By moving it to the front it will make it a whole
:13:18. > :13:23.new experience for everybody. To open it out to the public. We're
:13:23. > :13:28.hoping to have about half a million people there. It will be a massive
:13:28. > :13:32.concert. You did a press conference this morning. We heard some names
:13:32. > :13:37.on the bill. From the horse's mouth, give us a run-down. Now you are
:13:37. > :13:42.testing! One of the most exciting artists is Elton John. He has
:13:42. > :13:48.always been a big hero of mine so to be able to book him for this was
:13:48. > :13:52.incredible. Sir Paul McCartney, Tom Jones, JLS, Dame Shirley Bassey. It
:13:52. > :13:56.will be a great event. A do you contact them personally? Her in the
:13:56. > :14:00.past I have done these shows before and I have always found that the
:14:00. > :14:03.personal approach is the best. To speak to them and tell them what
:14:03. > :14:07.you are trying to do is the best way of doing it. The question on
:14:07. > :14:15.everybody's lips, especially the girls at home. Will take that
:14:15. > :14:19.perform? Nothing has been decided. Come on! Nothing has been decided
:14:19. > :14:28.yet, but over the next couple of months, we are putting more acts on
:14:28. > :14:32.the bill. Watch this space. mentioned... They will be fighting
:14:32. > :14:41.for dressing rooms. 53 guest rooms. It will be difficult because I am
:14:41. > :14:45.getting the biggest! There's no rush at all. I would say on the
:14:45. > :14:51.contrary. You might forget so get a online right now and book your
:14:51. > :14:55.ticket! March 2nd is the key date. You have until midnight on 2nd
:14:55. > :15:05.March. That is not a lot of tickets to go round. Get on the internet
:15:05. > :15:05.
:15:05. > :15:10.right now all right in! After the A ballot is open for this
:15:10. > :15:20.spectacular concert. 5000 pairs of tickets are available. Applicants
:15:20. > :15:24.
:15:24. > :15:34.must be 18 years or over from today. The Diamond Jubilee Concert 2012,
:15:34. > :15:41.
:15:41. > :15:48.Do people still use the post? Absolutely. Successful applicants
:15:48. > :15:51.will be able to take a guest, who might - that must be aged 30 not
:15:51. > :15:55.over from today. Only one application per person. You must
:15:55. > :15:59.have a residential address here in the UK. Football terms and
:15:59. > :16:03.conditions you can go to the website. As well as performances
:16:03. > :16:06.from Shirley Bassey and Jessie J, lucky ticket-holders will be
:16:06. > :16:12.invited into the gardens at Buckingham Palace for a special
:16:12. > :16:15.picnic before the concert. Every year, Her Majesty hosts garden
:16:15. > :16:21.parties for invited guests from all over the country. Christine Walkden
:16:21. > :16:25.has been to meet the few of you who have been to tea with the Queen.
:16:25. > :16:29.just love a good rummage around a celebrity garden. And let's face it,
:16:29. > :16:33.they don't come much more famous than this one. And what a treat -
:16:33. > :16:43.I've got an invitation to go and look at the gardens of Buckingham
:16:43. > :16:47.
:16:47. > :16:53.The garden was first laid out by James I in 1609 as a mulberry
:16:53. > :17:00.plantation to grow silkworms. Over the course of 250 years, it was
:17:00. > :17:10.enlarged and sculptured into 40 acres of beautiful parkland. This
:17:10. > :17:11.
:17:11. > :17:18.is quite special. This is spicy, a rich fragrance. The Acorn of this
:17:18. > :17:22.tree was sewn on the day that Prince Charles was born. Since
:17:22. > :17:26.Elizabeth II came to the throne at 60 years ago, over 1 million people
:17:26. > :17:34.from all walks of life have received a personal invite from the
:17:34. > :17:39.Queen to take tea with her on her back lawn. The tradition began in
:17:39. > :17:44.1868, when Queen Victoria wanted to meet more of her subject. They also
:17:44. > :17:48.acted as a way of introducing young debutants to high society. In the
:17:48. > :17:53.1950s, they became a way of rewarding acts of public service.
:17:53. > :17:57.Today, around 8000 people attend each of the garden parties, held in
:17:58. > :18:02.June and July each year. I wonder what it's really like going to the
:18:02. > :18:09.palace and meeting the Queen. The people gathered here have done just
:18:09. > :18:13.that. Wendy Silcock, Susan Ward and her husband, Charles, all attended
:18:13. > :18:18.garden parties at Buckingham Palace. Wendy was invited for her work with
:18:18. > :18:25.charities. Jenny came with a woman's group and Susan represented
:18:25. > :18:31.arts organisation, the overseas League. The first invitation came
:18:31. > :18:35.from the Lord Chamberlain. After the excitement of jumping up and
:18:35. > :18:41.down and running around like a headless chicken, I wrote back and
:18:41. > :18:45.said any day would suit me! thought, panic, I've got nothing to
:18:45. > :18:49.wear. Names for garden party invites are put forward by
:18:50. > :18:53.government, armed services and different charities and societies.
:18:53. > :18:58.In Buckingham Palace everyone tends to rush through. I wanted to take
:18:58. > :19:06.my time and have a good look around. The food looked fantastic. Pristine
:19:06. > :19:10.and tiny and decorative. They had quite a few small cakes. They have
:19:10. > :19:13.little cucumber sandwiches and a cup of tea. At 4pm the band strikes
:19:13. > :19:18.up with the national anthem, which gives the Queen had queued to
:19:18. > :19:22.appear on the steps of the palace. We were standing quite far away at
:19:22. > :19:32.that point. I was trying to look over people's heads, can you see
:19:32. > :19:32.
:19:32. > :19:36.them? Goosebumps came. One of the Lord Chamberlain... They were
:19:36. > :19:43.looking for people in groups of four. Christine piped up and said,
:19:43. > :19:49.well, we are free. He said, that will do. He led us towards the
:19:49. > :19:59.Queen and there we were. Fantastic. I was lucky because I was asked if
:19:59. > :20:01.
:20:01. > :20:06.I'd like to meet her. I said, who have you got? They went through the
:20:06. > :20:11.list and I said, yes, I'll have the Queen, please. And here is the big
:20:11. > :20:15.moment for Charles and Susan. and remember what I'd talked to the
:20:15. > :20:20.Queen about. Susan reminded me afterwards. I was about to launch
:20:20. > :20:25.into a deep analysis of the railway timetable! An honour to cherish.
:20:25. > :20:29.One of those surreal moments that you would never expect. She was
:20:29. > :20:34.just beautiful. The whole day was beautiful. Garden parties clearly
:20:34. > :20:38.leave a real impression on those who been. And for me, and I think
:20:38. > :20:41.the Palace, they are a great way for the Queen to meet a few more of
:20:41. > :20:44.her subjects to have helped society. I just wonder what the head
:20:44. > :20:51.gardener really thinks about all those people trampling over his
:20:51. > :20:59.lovely lawn. The closest thing we have to royalty on The One Show,
:20:59. > :21:03.apart from Dan Snow, his Gyles Brandreth. I'm honoured to be here.
:21:03. > :21:08.The last time I was in this room, about a year ago at a charity event
:21:08. > :21:11.hosted by the Duke of Edinburgh, I was making my speech and Prince
:21:11. > :21:17.Philip Barrett may continue. He could sing, we've heard that story
:21:17. > :21:23.before, some you put to - that some new material please. Eventually I
:21:23. > :21:27.ground to a halt. He was a Royal heckler. He is a remarkable person.
:21:27. > :21:30.They are a remarkable double act. The support he has given the Queen
:21:30. > :21:34.these past 60 years is extraordinary. When I was writing a
:21:34. > :21:38.book about them about 10 years ago, I went to the Royal Variety Show
:21:38. > :21:42.with them. During the interval the Queen came out. She is immediately
:21:42. > :21:46.surrounded by people. I stood in the corner of his crowded room and
:21:46. > :21:50.across the room, the Queen was quite small, standing in this
:21:50. > :21:53.circle of show business people. The Duke of Edinburgh was across the
:21:53. > :21:59.room and caught her eye and simply lifted his glass and smiled at her.
:21:59. > :22:03.She smiled back. The curious thing is, no one is normal with the Queen
:22:03. > :22:09.except for the Duke of Edinburgh. And nobody can say to the Duke of
:22:09. > :22:12.Edinburgh, Philip, do shut up! Except for the Queen, and she does.
:22:12. > :22:16.Here we are at this palace where they now live, they didn't want to
:22:16. > :22:20.live here. In 1952, when the Queen became Queen, they were living in
:22:21. > :22:25.Clarence House. They wanted to stay there. But Winston Churchill said,
:22:25. > :22:28.no, this is the headquarters of the Royal Family. You move here. The
:22:28. > :22:34.reason they wanted to stay as a family was for the first five years
:22:34. > :22:38.of their marriage, from 1947 to 1952, they were almost an ordinary
:22:38. > :22:42.naval couple. Stationed in Malta, where Prince Philip was a naval
:22:42. > :22:47.officer. The Queen was almost like a normal naval wife. She went to
:22:47. > :22:50.the local beauty salon, she drove Prince Philip's car around the
:22:50. > :22:56.island. She once had an encounter with a fellow on a donkey who would
:22:56. > :23:01.not move. A short path, the Queen in her MG, the fellow on the donkey.
:23:01. > :23:07.These multi is, he was across Maltese, he stood his ground. He
:23:07. > :23:11.didn't know she was going to be the Queen. What is interesting about
:23:11. > :23:15.the Queen is she is given by duty, sustained by faith. But she is
:23:15. > :23:20.actually an normal human being. anyone who saw the documentary last
:23:20. > :23:26.night, her energy is incredible. She never stops. But when she does
:23:26. > :23:31.get spare time, how does she relax? 387 engagements last year. This is
:23:31. > :23:36.a woman in her mid- 80s. She watches the TV. Your rickshaw
:23:36. > :23:40.challenges nothing compared to that. She listens to the radio, does the
:23:40. > :23:43.odd crossword puzzle, been known to play the odd game of Scrabble, she
:23:43. > :23:48.enjoys music of the light and popular kind, particularly from her
:23:48. > :23:53.generation. She does a very good impression of George -- George
:23:53. > :23:58.Formby. If you did when I'm Cleaning Windows Add your concert,
:23:58. > :24:02.I tell you, the Queen could join in because she can do an impression of
:24:02. > :24:07.George Formby. We were thinking Ming -- we were thinking of opening
:24:07. > :24:11.with that. As the Queen specified the type of music she'd like to
:24:11. > :24:14.here at the concert. We've had a few requests from the Prince's
:24:14. > :24:20.about the type of artists they died. The Queen has specified she would
:24:20. > :24:25.like to focus on the Commonwealth, although we are having artists from
:24:25. > :24:29.all over the world, global artists. What we are trying to do with the
:24:29. > :24:33.concert is give every decade of her reign a chance to be heard
:24:33. > :24:37.musically. We'll be doing music from the 50s, 60s, right the way
:24:37. > :24:41.through to now. What would you say that her stand-out moment would be
:24:41. > :24:45.from all of those decades? What is extraordinary about the Queen is
:24:45. > :24:50.she's delivered the goods in the same way for 60 years. Calmly. She
:24:50. > :24:55.never gets flustered. Not a celebrity, she has just Queen. The
:24:55. > :25:00.same person with a crowd of a million as with one person. You
:25:00. > :25:05.won't notice the difference with her. But the stand-out moment, I'd
:25:05. > :25:11.pick -- I'd pick baby son one. Last year she went to the Republic of
:25:11. > :25:14.Ireland. Independent Ireland where a member of her own family had been
:25:14. > :25:22.killed by the IRA. And yet she went there, turned up, delivered the
:25:23. > :25:28.goods, look the part and learned some words of Gaelic. It goes
:25:28. > :25:34.without saying that it is wonderful that we can be here from Buckingham
:25:34. > :25:44.Palace. It is. That wasn't the only privilege we were given. No, let's
:25:44. > :25:48.
:25:48. > :25:52.just say it was a day that we will Music and dance have always played
:25:52. > :25:55.an important role in life at Buckingham Palace. From grand
:25:56. > :26:05.occasions to private performances from musical genius, such as Mozart
:26:06. > :26:06.
:26:06. > :26:14.who played for George III and Queen And to events held here in the
:26:14. > :26:18.largest room in the palace. The ballroom. Opened in 1856 by Queen
:26:19. > :26:27.Victoria with a celebratory ball to mark the end of the Crimean War, it
:26:27. > :26:31.has hosted countless occasions At the invitation of Queen Victoria,
:26:31. > :26:34.some of the world's greatest musical talents, such as
:26:34. > :26:38.Mendelssohn and the Orchestra of Johann Strauss the second, have
:26:38. > :26:43.passed through the palace gates. But years later, another future
:26:43. > :26:47.Queen helped bring music and dance to the Palace. Contrast the
:26:47. > :26:50.formality of Palace piano lessons for the young princess. With the
:26:50. > :27:00.joy of witnessing crowds celebrating the end of the war,
:27:00. > :27:05.
:27:05. > :27:08.with popular songs, but kind that Vorm years later, and a rare
:27:08. > :27:13.glimpse of Elizabeth. Now married but not yet ground. Dancing with
:27:13. > :27:16.Prince Philip in Malta. That was a very public event, but there is a
:27:16. > :27:21.piece of music that is said to be a personal favourite of the couple.
:27:21. > :27:30.Inspired by a visit to see the musical Oklahoma in 1947, the year
:27:30. > :27:34.they were married. It is called people will say we are in love. It
:27:34. > :27:40.was the song that the couple danced to at a ball held here at
:27:40. > :27:44.Buckingham Palace, just three days before they were married.
:27:44. > :27:54.almost 65 years later, Matt and I have the honour of performing our
:27:54. > :27:54.
:27:54. > :29:16.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 81 seconds
:29:16. > :29:20.own dance in the Palace to this That was amazing! Look no further,
:29:20. > :29:25.there are the headliners for the diamond jubilee concert. Like
:29:25. > :29:30.Torvill and Dean without the ice skates. Seriously, if you want to
:29:30. > :29:34.we will do that on the roof. I will keep it in mind. That is all we
:29:34. > :29:38.have got time for for tonight. you want to enter the ballot for
:29:38. > :29:45.tickets to the diamond jubilee concert on fourth June, go to the
:29:45. > :29:50.website. Remember, there is no need to rush, or they might be, as Gary
:29:50. > :29:55.said. For any time before the 2nd March when the ballot closes,
:29:55. > :30:02.because tickets are not come -- are not on a first-come first-served