0:00:02 > 0:00:07# God save our gracious Queen
0:00:07 > 0:00:17# Long live our noble Queen
0:00:17 > 0:00:24# God save the Queen
0:00:27 > 0:00:28# Send her... #
0:00:28 > 0:00:30'There's probably no better place to begin
0:00:30 > 0:00:34'this rather personal tribute to the Queen than here at Balmoral.
0:00:34 > 0:00:36'The castle was built for Queen Victoria,
0:00:36 > 0:00:39'the only previous monarch to celebrate a Diamond Jubilee
0:00:39 > 0:00:40'in our long history.'
0:00:42 > 0:00:45'So many wonderful things have been said about my mama this year,
0:00:45 > 0:00:47'but with the aide of cine films
0:00:47 > 0:00:49'and photographs that she and my father took
0:00:49 > 0:00:52'of my sister and me as children,
0:00:52 > 0:00:55'I just wanted to take this opportunity to reflect
0:00:55 > 0:00:58'on some of private as well as public moments
0:00:58 > 0:00:59'of her memorable reign.'
0:01:02 > 0:01:04If I can get it open.
0:01:04 > 0:01:06A-ha!
0:01:06 > 0:01:08It's a wonderfully battered box.
0:01:08 > 0:01:10Oh, do look at all these things.
0:01:11 > 0:01:14And you see, I think....
0:01:16 > 0:01:17..this one...
0:01:18 > 0:01:19Yes.
0:01:26 > 0:01:31Funnily enough, I think my mama must have probably inherited the interest
0:01:31 > 0:01:34from her father, my grandfather, King George VI,
0:01:34 > 0:01:40because he also took quite a lot of film in the '30s.
0:01:40 > 0:01:44I think my mama kept up the habit of taking cine films.
0:01:44 > 0:01:49Because I remember so well my parents, well, both my parents
0:01:49 > 0:01:52seemed to have enjoyed filming things.
0:01:52 > 0:01:57There was a lot of things went on, you know, with cine cameras.
0:01:57 > 0:02:00I remember when I was young.
0:02:00 > 0:02:03But then, obviously I haven't seen a lot of them for years.
0:02:03 > 0:02:08That's why, you know, now it's been so interesting and amusing,
0:02:08 > 0:02:11and...and touching, actually, to see some of them.
0:02:27 > 0:02:29PRINCE CHARLES CHUCKLES
0:02:29 > 0:02:32That's my aunt, Princess Margaret. Oh, my sister, Anne.
0:02:36 > 0:02:39This must have been 1952, wasn't it?
0:03:08 > 0:03:10PRINCE CHARLES CHUCKLES
0:03:25 > 0:03:28That was always such fun, doing that.
0:03:31 > 0:03:36I remember doing that with my children as well, down that bank.
0:03:36 > 0:03:37Endlessly.
0:03:46 > 0:03:48Couldn't reach the pedals!
0:03:48 > 0:03:51PRINCE CHARLES CHUCKLES
0:03:53 > 0:03:54Whoops!
0:03:58 > 0:04:01I suspect every generation did this on this bank
0:04:01 > 0:04:04and I have a feeling Queen Victoria's children
0:04:04 > 0:04:06probably did exactly the same thing.
0:04:13 > 0:04:17This was a...electric car.
0:04:20 > 0:04:23It was my mama's and she'd had it when she was a child,
0:04:23 > 0:04:24I have a feeling.
0:04:24 > 0:04:28I'm trying to run my sister down, anyway.
0:04:38 > 0:04:39Rather good colour, isn't it?
0:04:39 > 0:04:43I must say. They have lasted jolly well, these films.
0:04:43 > 0:04:47I can hardly believe how much things have changed,
0:04:47 > 0:04:50since the 1950s, in every walk of life.
0:04:50 > 0:04:55So, the fact that my mama has been a constant feature on the scene,
0:04:55 > 0:04:59has provided that sense, I think, of continuity
0:04:59 > 0:05:04in a time of immense change over the last 60 years,
0:05:04 > 0:05:08I think is one of the most important things to celebrate,
0:05:08 > 0:05:12it seems to me, because perhaps subconsciously people
0:05:12 > 0:05:15feel encouraged, perhaps,
0:05:15 > 0:05:20reassured by something that's always there.
0:05:22 > 0:05:27Your Majesty, I know I speak for all those who have the privilege
0:05:27 > 0:05:31to wear your uniform and hold your commission
0:05:31 > 0:05:35when I thank you for your dedication to our service and to our country.
0:05:35 > 0:05:42Three cheers for Her Majesty the Queen.
0:05:42 > 0:05:45- Hip hip!- Hooray!
0:05:45 > 0:05:47- Hip hip!- Hooray!
0:05:47 > 0:05:48- Hip hip!- Hooray!
0:05:53 > 0:05:56Of course, a jubilee now,
0:05:56 > 0:06:00a Diamond Jubilee being a pretty unique event, to say the least,
0:06:00 > 0:06:04perhaps helps to bring the whole country together,
0:06:04 > 0:06:07and provide opportunity for celebration,
0:06:07 > 0:06:11remembering the things that help to define us, perhaps.
0:06:13 > 0:06:14From the very start,
0:06:14 > 0:06:19the Queen had to prepare for the most important event of any reign -
0:06:19 > 0:06:20the Coronation.
0:06:20 > 0:06:24She has a private memento of that June day
0:06:24 > 0:06:27especially filmed behind the scenes at Buckingham Palace.
0:06:37 > 0:06:41I suspect this must be getting ready for going out to the coach.
0:06:41 > 0:06:43She does look incredibly calm.
0:06:43 > 0:06:45I suppose she had a sense
0:06:45 > 0:06:49that everything possible had been thought of.
0:06:49 > 0:06:52She'd also had several rehearsals.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00On such a momentous day, you'd think there might be some nerves
0:07:00 > 0:07:02about the need to get everything right,
0:07:02 > 0:07:06with everyone watching on the television and so on.
0:07:06 > 0:07:09But then my mama does have amazing poise.
0:07:30 > 0:07:33These are the last few private moments
0:07:33 > 0:07:36before the State Coach comes out into public view.
0:07:36 > 0:07:40It has to do a huge semicircle in the inner courtyard
0:07:40 > 0:07:43before it emerges through the central arch
0:07:43 > 0:07:45on its way to Westminster Abbey.
0:07:48 > 0:07:53It was quite a long walk, of course, with...people walking along beside.
0:07:59 > 0:08:02- COMMENTATOR:- 'Leaving her home on what must surely be
0:08:02 > 0:08:04'the greatest day of her life,
0:08:04 > 0:08:07'Queen Elizabeth drives to her coronation.'
0:08:13 > 0:08:17'And so on past Admiralty Arch and through Trafalgar Square...'
0:08:17 > 0:08:18The extraordinary thing was
0:08:18 > 0:08:21the wonderful atmosphere in London and everywhere.
0:08:21 > 0:08:23It was, it was palpable.
0:08:23 > 0:08:25And all that helps to carry you along,
0:08:25 > 0:08:28I'm sure my mama would say now.
0:08:36 > 0:08:39But you see, for me, I remember having my hair cut
0:08:39 > 0:08:41and all that sort of thing beforehand,
0:08:41 > 0:08:43and plastered down with the most frightful stuff,
0:08:43 > 0:08:45which annoyed me to such a degree!
0:08:45 > 0:08:49And then being strapped into this splendid outfit.
0:08:50 > 0:08:54All those sort of preparations are far more vivid, really,
0:08:54 > 0:08:56than the actual occasion.
0:08:58 > 0:09:02You absolutely do try and get it right.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04So anybody would be pretty apprehensive.
0:09:04 > 0:09:08You know, hence the practising wearing things
0:09:08 > 0:09:11and getting used to what they felt like.
0:09:11 > 0:09:16It was...such an enormous occasion.
0:09:16 > 0:09:21Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the peoples
0:09:21 > 0:09:25of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,
0:09:25 > 0:09:29Canada, Australia, New Zealand,
0:09:29 > 0:09:34'the Union of South Africa, Pakistan and Ceylon,'
0:09:34 > 0:09:38and of your possessions and the other territories
0:09:38 > 0:09:41to any of them belonging or pertaining,
0:09:41 > 0:09:46according to their respective laws and customs?
0:09:46 > 0:09:48I solemnly promise so to do.
0:09:50 > 0:09:53'My grandmother used to, you know, lean down
0:09:53 > 0:09:55'and explain some of the things that were going on'
0:09:55 > 0:09:58or try and get me to notice things, you know,
0:09:58 > 0:09:59"This is the moment" and so on.
0:10:03 > 0:10:05'ALL: God save the Queen!'
0:10:05 > 0:10:08Long live the Queen!
0:10:08 > 0:10:10God save the Queen!
0:10:11 > 0:10:16FANFARE
0:10:20 > 0:10:22- NEWSREADER: - 'The word has gone forth -
0:10:22 > 0:10:24'The Queen is crowned!'
0:10:29 > 0:10:35# Send her victorious
0:10:35 > 0:10:42# Happy and glorious
0:10:42 > 0:10:48# Long to reign over us
0:10:48 > 0:10:54# God save the Queen. #
0:11:00 > 0:11:04'And now we're back inside Buckingham Palace.'
0:11:04 > 0:11:08I should think... I should think the crown was rather agony by then.
0:11:08 > 0:11:10It's incredibly heavy.
0:11:13 > 0:11:18That's why, you know, my mama had to practise so much wearing it.
0:11:21 > 0:11:25You had to, you see, to learn how to wear it for longish periods,
0:11:25 > 0:11:28because it goes on, the ceremony, for quite a long time,
0:11:28 > 0:11:31so you can end up with a terrible headache.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33So I remember my mama coming, you know, up,
0:11:33 > 0:11:36when we were being bathed as children,
0:11:36 > 0:11:40with wearing...wearing the crown, it was quite funny, practising.
0:11:40 > 0:11:42That's a vivid memory, I must say.
0:11:42 > 0:11:43You can imagine great fascination
0:11:43 > 0:11:46with small children looking at the crown,
0:11:46 > 0:11:48peering at the jewels.
0:11:50 > 0:11:52"Oh, can I take it off?"
0:11:55 > 0:11:57Ah, somebody trod on it!
0:12:01 > 0:12:03Fascinated by it, you know.
0:12:07 > 0:12:09CROWD CHEERS
0:12:09 > 0:12:13HER MAJESTY: 'As this day draws to its close,
0:12:13 > 0:12:17'I know that my abiding memory of it will be
0:12:17 > 0:12:22'not only the solemnity and beauty of the ceremony,
0:12:22 > 0:12:27'but the inspiration of your loyalty and affection.'
0:12:33 > 0:12:36Look exhausted!
0:12:36 > 0:12:39We were in the picture gallery.
0:12:40 > 0:12:44We must be waiting for photographs or something, I suppose.
0:12:49 > 0:12:52PRINCE CHARLES LAUGHS
0:12:57 > 0:13:01So mama's obviously taken the crown off to have a rest.
0:13:05 > 0:13:08Here we are, you see, in the throne room. Oh, yes, look.
0:13:08 > 0:13:11There's Princess Alexandra in her gold coronet,
0:13:11 > 0:13:14and my aunt, Princess Marina, the Duchess of Kent.
0:13:33 > 0:13:36A rather wonderful gathering of diamonds, I must say!
0:13:36 > 0:13:38 It's fantastic, isn't it?
0:13:43 > 0:13:46It's all the flashes, I suspect.
0:13:51 > 0:13:54Lord Mountbatten, my great uncle.
0:14:09 > 0:14:12Frightfully proud I was of my Coronation medal.
0:14:17 > 0:14:19Splendid.
0:14:22 > 0:14:26'For most of the year, Buckingham Palace is the Queen's main home.
0:14:26 > 0:14:28'From my earliest childhood, I was always aware
0:14:28 > 0:14:32'that her official engagements were part of the daily rhythm.'
0:14:36 > 0:14:41Natural grace is something you're born with, I suspect.
0:14:41 > 0:14:44And, of course, she wore such marvellous things, I think.
0:14:44 > 0:14:49As children, of course, it was, it was always fascinating to see,
0:14:49 > 0:14:51particularly when she was, you know,
0:14:51 > 0:14:54wearing a long dress and tiara and jewellery and everything else.
0:14:54 > 0:14:57It was rather marvellous, I remember being fascinated by that.
0:14:57 > 0:15:01When she would come in occasionally before going to something...
0:15:01 > 0:15:05gaze in amazement and always looks marvellous
0:15:05 > 0:15:07in those jewels, I think.
0:15:12 > 0:15:15This is my great grandmother, Queen Mary, who I,
0:15:15 > 0:15:18you know, I do remember when she was in her 80s, I suppose.
0:15:18 > 0:15:22But it's intriguing looking at the...some of the jewellery
0:15:22 > 0:15:26to see, you know, how...how much is used still.
0:15:26 > 0:15:28And the Queen, still, she wears that tiara quite a lot.
0:15:32 > 0:15:36And probably the earrings and part of the diamond necklace.
0:15:36 > 0:15:39But over the years, things get reset, you know.
0:15:39 > 0:15:43My great-great-grandmother, Queen Alexandra, I mean,
0:15:43 > 0:15:46she really did go to town, it's absolutely wonderful.
0:15:46 > 0:15:51She loved ropes of pearls and isn't it wonderful
0:15:51 > 0:15:54the way they were criss-crossed and hung like that.
0:15:54 > 0:15:57And again, there are pieces there that,
0:15:57 > 0:15:59the tiara is one that my mama wears.
0:15:59 > 0:16:03And you'll see that one in the... usually Opening of Parliament.
0:16:03 > 0:16:07FANFARE PLAYS ON SOUNDTRACK
0:16:07 > 0:16:09COMMENTATOR: 'Through the gates of Buckingham Palace,
0:16:09 > 0:16:10'Her Majesty the Queen,
0:16:10 > 0:16:13'accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, drives in state
0:16:13 > 0:16:15'to open the new session of Parliament.
0:16:15 > 0:16:20'Not for 66 years has a reigning queen presided at this ceremony.'
0:16:20 > 0:16:22We used to spend a lot of time
0:16:22 > 0:16:25with our noses pressed against the window,
0:16:25 > 0:16:28watching all sorts of things going on, like this.
0:16:28 > 0:16:30'The Queen, wearing a diamond and pearl tiara,
0:16:30 > 0:16:34'is a picture of grace and charm to delight the cheering crowds.'
0:16:34 > 0:16:37I've always thought that my mama looks absolutely wonderful
0:16:37 > 0:16:41in that tiara, the one she wears for the State Opening Of Parliament.
0:16:41 > 0:16:43You know it was made for the Prince Regent?
0:16:43 > 0:16:47That's the amazing thing when you think about it. But it...
0:16:47 > 0:16:49I thought she looked absolutely marvellous in it.
0:16:51 > 0:16:55'She's now opened Parliament at Westminster 59 times.
0:16:55 > 0:16:57'The first was back in 1952,
0:16:57 > 0:17:00'when Sir Winston Churchill was Prime Minister.
0:17:00 > 0:17:04'And then, of course, there are all the overseas realms
0:17:04 > 0:17:06'in which she is also Queen.'
0:17:06 > 0:17:09When I opened Parliament in, in Canada,
0:17:09 > 0:17:12then I came here and opened Parliament,
0:17:12 > 0:17:16and then in the Virgin Islands, and then in Antigua,
0:17:16 > 0:17:19then in Barbados, then I flew home by Concorde, which was the only way
0:17:19 > 0:17:22I could get home in time to open Parliament in London.
0:17:23 > 0:17:26'All the Queen's British Prime Ministers
0:17:26 > 0:17:29'have been invited to Balmoral for the weekend,
0:17:29 > 0:17:32'and joined in whatever the family was doing.
0:17:32 > 0:17:34'Sir Winston was no exception.'
0:17:34 > 0:17:37I suspect she was taking these, look.
0:17:41 > 0:17:44Oh, look, there's Lady Churchill, Sir Winston Churchill's wife.
0:17:47 > 0:17:50There he is, look. See, I remember this one so well,
0:17:50 > 0:17:52I remember him sitting there with...
0:17:52 > 0:17:54he'd found a bit of driftwood and said,
0:17:54 > 0:17:58"I'm waiting for the Loch Ness Monster," he said.
0:17:58 > 0:18:01Don't you love his sort of wonderfully un-Scottish garb?
0:18:01 > 0:18:03That hat.
0:18:03 > 0:18:06Lady Churchill trying to guard him, I think.
0:18:11 > 0:18:14By then, I suppose he was...must've been 80, I suppose, wasn't he?
0:18:14 > 0:18:18It's extraordinary when you think he was still the Prime Minister.
0:18:18 > 0:18:21PRINCE CHARLES LAUGHS
0:18:24 > 0:18:27It must have been, in some ways, quite reassuring
0:18:27 > 0:18:31for my mama to have somebody like that when she first started.
0:18:31 > 0:18:35I mean, with all that experience going back such a long way to the...
0:18:35 > 0:18:38before the First World War and all the way through.
0:18:38 > 0:18:41Remarkable when you think about it.
0:18:41 > 0:18:44Somebody like that to deal with or to...
0:18:44 > 0:18:48to hear his perspective on what was going on.
0:18:50 > 0:18:55Well, I sometimes wonder whether Sir Winston wasn't in a way
0:18:55 > 0:18:59rather like Lord Melbourne was to Queen Victoria,
0:18:59 > 0:19:02you know, when she first came to the throne.
0:19:02 > 0:19:05He grew to adore her, and she adored him, of course.
0:19:05 > 0:19:07Well, I think my mama, I mean, he was
0:19:07 > 0:19:11such an extraordinary character and so amusing, Sir Winston,
0:19:11 > 0:19:15he came out with these wonderful remarks, but wonderful.
0:19:15 > 0:19:21And you couldn't fail, really, to be intrigued and fascinated by that.
0:19:21 > 0:19:24COMMENTATOR: 'Now the man, who through the darkest days of the war,
0:19:24 > 0:19:26'would report regularly to the Sovereign
0:19:26 > 0:19:30'all the great affairs of state, is no longer Prime Minister.'
0:19:35 > 0:19:38'The extraordinary thing now when you think about it is that,
0:19:38 > 0:19:42'as prime ministers have come and gone over the past 60 years,
0:19:42 > 0:19:44'the boot perhaps is on the other foot.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47'It's the Queen who has the equivalent
0:19:47 > 0:19:49'of Sir Winston's span of experience.
0:19:49 > 0:19:51'Two of her 12 British Prime Ministers
0:19:51 > 0:19:54'hadn't even been born when she came to the throne.'
0:19:54 > 0:19:57Mr Jim Callaghan,
0:19:57 > 0:20:01he used to tell me occasionally that he had
0:20:01 > 0:20:05developed an enormous respect for my mama,
0:20:05 > 0:20:09an understanding, I think, of the role of the sovereign,
0:20:09 > 0:20:12having not really done so before to the same extent.
0:20:12 > 0:20:15And he told me then that he realised more and more after,
0:20:15 > 0:20:19you know, meetings with my mama, as Prime Minister and so on,
0:20:19 > 0:20:22just how important, he said anyway,
0:20:22 > 0:20:26he'd realised the... the role of the sovereign was.
0:20:35 > 0:20:39This is my mama's album... this must've be when...
0:20:39 > 0:20:42must've been the first one, I think, because it actually says in here,
0:20:42 > 0:20:44"HRH Prince Charles, his book," it says,
0:20:44 > 0:20:47"14th November, 1948," which was when I was born.
0:20:47 > 0:20:51There's me here with my mama. This, I suppose,
0:20:51 > 0:20:55was September 1949 up in Scotland.
0:20:55 > 0:20:58I was nearly one, I suppose, by then.
0:21:01 > 0:21:05Now, I think that dog was called Susan, but...
0:21:05 > 0:21:09my mama will probably tell me I'm wrong.
0:21:09 > 0:21:12Look, sniff, sniff, "Be very careful of dog."
0:21:20 > 0:21:23Getting me to stand up, trying to walk, look.
0:21:23 > 0:21:25Not very successfully.
0:21:46 > 0:21:47Very ticklish.
0:21:50 > 0:21:53I sort of vaguely remember those leggings I wore in those days.
0:21:58 > 0:22:00PRINCE CHARLES CHUCKLES
0:22:08 > 0:22:13Oh, yes, here was an early introduction to Trooping the Colour,
0:22:13 > 0:22:16looking over the wall, Clarence House into The Mall.
0:22:18 > 0:22:21All the bands coming past and then my grandfather,
0:22:21 > 0:22:25King George VI, in his carriage at that stage, this is in 1950,
0:22:25 > 0:22:28because he wasn't riding, he was not well enough I think.
0:22:31 > 0:22:33There's my grandfather in the carriage all on his own,
0:22:33 > 0:22:34King George VI.
0:22:36 > 0:22:39Oh, there's my mama.
0:22:39 > 0:22:43Yes, you see she's been made Colonel of the Grenadiers, you see.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45You see the cap with the Grenadiers' crest.
0:22:45 > 0:22:47There's my great-uncle, the Duke of Gloucester.
0:22:47 > 0:22:50And it's interesting that in those days there was only
0:22:50 > 0:22:55the Duke of Gloucester and my mama who were riding behind the carriage.
0:22:55 > 0:22:58Now there's more of us.
0:22:58 > 0:23:01The wonderful thing is nothing has changed,
0:23:01 > 0:23:04it's still done he same way. So this must have been my father, I think,
0:23:04 > 0:23:08taking the film. He'd obviously gone up to the window.
0:23:08 > 0:23:12Oh, here we are coming back again, up The Mall.
0:23:14 > 0:23:18I shall have to ask my mama which horse that was she was riding.
0:23:21 > 0:23:24PRINCE CHARLES LAUGHS
0:23:24 > 0:23:27Because it's quite a long sit, you know, on a horse.
0:23:27 > 0:23:29It gets quite tiring, amazingly.
0:23:32 > 0:23:36Well, into the centre room, which leads onto the balcony.
0:23:36 > 0:23:40I remember as a child so often at the Trooping of the Colour,
0:23:40 > 0:23:44you know, being fascinated by what appeared to be
0:23:44 > 0:23:47frightfully tall gentlemen in uniforms, you know.
0:23:47 > 0:23:50Always riveted by the swords and the aiguillettes
0:23:50 > 0:23:52and, "What's that?", you know.
0:23:52 > 0:23:55Wanting to pull swords out, you know, and push them back in again.
0:23:55 > 0:23:59And, of course, you see the Queen always has taken such
0:23:59 > 0:24:04a particular interest in all the horses to do with the Trooping,
0:24:04 > 0:24:08and all the carriage horses and everything else,
0:24:08 > 0:24:12so she knows a huge amount about all of that, all of them.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15And, of course, when she used to ride in the Trooping then,
0:24:15 > 0:24:17that was marvellous, I always thought.
0:24:17 > 0:24:19She used to do quite a lot of practice riding side saddle
0:24:19 > 0:24:24beforehand at Windsor, you know, or sometimes in the riding school here,
0:24:24 > 0:24:27because otherwise she didn't ride side saddle normally.
0:24:31 > 0:24:34That's in the Great Park at Windsor.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40This must be in the late 1940s.
0:24:42 > 0:24:44For most of her life,
0:24:44 > 0:24:48my mama has gone riding there every morning whenever she's at Windsor.
0:24:55 > 0:24:57My aunt.
0:25:03 > 0:25:07I've never forgotten her endlessly trying to get us to learn
0:25:07 > 0:25:09how to do a trot,
0:25:09 > 0:25:12which I seem to remember at the beginning was so difficult.
0:25:12 > 0:25:18Then suddenly it comes. This splendid pony we had called Fun.
0:25:26 > 0:25:27That's at Sandringham.
0:25:33 > 0:25:36It's much better to learn all these things when you're young
0:25:36 > 0:25:38because, you know, it never seems to be much of an effort.
0:25:56 > 0:25:59I remember that jacket of my mama's so well.
0:26:05 > 0:26:08Still got the light meter around her neck.
0:26:13 > 0:26:16Going backwards and forwards.
0:26:16 > 0:26:20Is that my sister in the background? Must be, mustn't it? Yes.
0:26:23 > 0:26:28It could have been me, couldn't it, I suppose, taking this film.
0:26:28 > 0:26:30The wobbly bits. Yes.
0:26:36 > 0:26:40In 60 years, it's extraordinary the number of countries my parents
0:26:40 > 0:26:43have managed to visit.
0:26:43 > 0:26:47I so admire the way she's helped to hold that unique association,
0:26:47 > 0:26:49the Commonwealth, together.
0:26:51 > 0:26:56And I think...just the sheer number of heads of state who are
0:26:56 > 0:27:01coming to the Jubilee celebrations I think shows the, you know,
0:27:01 > 0:27:06the respect and affection which my mama is held all around the world.
0:27:06 > 0:27:12Somebody asked me had I been to Africa before,
0:27:12 > 0:27:14which was nice of them to ask,
0:27:14 > 0:27:19but I did say that I had been everywhere in the Commonwealth,
0:27:19 > 0:27:22in Africa, and in other countries in Africa.
0:27:22 > 0:27:24I think I've seen more of Africa than almost anybody.
0:27:24 > 0:27:29You know, her knowledge and experience
0:27:29 > 0:27:35of a lot of these countries and the people involved in them
0:27:35 > 0:27:38has been well pretty extensive after 60 years.
0:27:41 > 0:27:44Her first tour as Queen, just after the Coronation, took her
0:27:44 > 0:27:47to 15 countries around the world,
0:27:47 > 0:27:49and she was away from November to May.
0:27:49 > 0:27:52She became the first reigning monarch to set foot
0:27:52 > 0:27:56in New Zealand, and there was a sort of frenzied excitement in the crowd.
0:27:56 > 0:28:01This is the first time that I have spoken to New Zealanders
0:28:01 > 0:28:06in their own homeland, and my first words must be to tell you
0:28:06 > 0:28:09how happy I am to be amongst you.
0:28:09 > 0:28:12I think almost the whole population
0:28:12 > 0:28:16turned out to see her during her five weeks there.
0:28:16 > 0:28:18I think with the Coronation tour they went away
0:28:18 > 0:28:21for something like six months I think, something like that.
0:28:21 > 0:28:25It was quite a long time, to say the least.
0:28:29 > 0:28:31'With my parents the other side of the world,
0:28:31 > 0:28:36'my sister and I were the first ones to sail on the brand new Britannia
0:28:36 > 0:28:41'as we set off from Portsmouth to meet them in the Mediterranean.
0:28:41 > 0:28:43'My grandmother and my aunt took us on board.'
0:28:44 > 0:28:48Oh, look, you see the excitement of exploring.
0:28:48 > 0:28:50COMMENTATOR:' This is the first time any of the Royal visitors
0:28:50 > 0:28:52'have seen the splendid new yacht.
0:28:52 > 0:28:54'The Royal children will soon be on their way
0:28:54 > 0:28:55'to join their mother again.
0:28:55 > 0:28:57'It has been nearly five months
0:28:57 > 0:28:59'since the Queen was with her children,
0:28:59 > 0:29:01'though she has kept close contact with them
0:29:01 > 0:29:03'throughout her tour by radio telephone.'
0:29:03 > 0:29:07And, of course, in those days it took FOREVER to get through,
0:29:07 > 0:29:09you know, you'd wait and wait for the connections and clicks
0:29:09 > 0:29:14and all this sound, you could just eventually hear
0:29:14 > 0:29:18a tiny, tiny voice miles away.
0:29:18 > 0:29:21And you'd shout and shout, and you couldn't quite hear.
0:29:21 > 0:29:25Finally, we just got the odd little tiny sense of what was being said
0:29:25 > 0:29:28and that was the only sort of connection we had on the telephone,
0:29:28 > 0:29:31and a little letter every now and then.
0:29:31 > 0:29:32But I mean, we used to have great fun.
0:29:32 > 0:29:36The sailors built a wonderful sort of Heath Robinson
0:29:36 > 0:29:41type of slide that came down the steps with a sea water pump -
0:29:41 > 0:29:44you could put the water down and then you'd slide down it
0:29:44 > 0:29:47and see how far you could slide along the deck when you got wet,
0:29:47 > 0:29:51hoping there weren't any splinters!
0:29:54 > 0:29:58These are these wonderful sailors who looked after us,
0:29:58 > 0:30:02who had infinite patience and endless, you know,
0:30:02 > 0:30:04ideas about how to entertain us.
0:30:04 > 0:30:08It was all deck quoits and goodness knows what, and deck hockey.
0:30:08 > 0:30:13And we spent a lot of time cleaning and washing down everywhere.
0:30:13 > 0:30:17Dress up in the sailors' enormous boots - quite a funny photograph.
0:30:17 > 0:30:21Early signs of an interest in joining the Royal Navy there.
0:30:21 > 0:30:24Not a very good salute.
0:30:26 > 0:30:28You can imagine, you know,
0:30:28 > 0:30:32the anticipation mounted as we got nearer and nearer,
0:30:32 > 0:30:36past Gibraltar and then Malta and then we reached Tobruk,
0:30:36 > 0:30:40where the Queen and Prince Philip were finishing
0:30:40 > 0:30:42in Libya of all places.
0:30:42 > 0:30:44Extraordinary when you think of it.
0:30:44 > 0:30:47Yes, you can imagine, after all these months, it was,
0:30:47 > 0:30:49it was very exciting to see them again.
0:30:51 > 0:30:55And it must have been exciting for them too, I suspect.
0:30:55 > 0:30:59My sister and I must have changed quite a bit while they'd been away,
0:30:59 > 0:31:03and it was also their first time on board Britannia.
0:31:03 > 0:31:06My mama soon had her camera out.
0:31:10 > 0:31:12My great uncle, Lord Mountbatten,
0:31:12 > 0:31:15was then the Commander in Chief Mediterranean
0:31:15 > 0:31:18and he was leading the whole of the Mediterranean fleet in a sail past.
0:31:21 > 0:31:24Really close because he was determined to make it impressive,
0:31:24 > 0:31:28which indeed it was, you can imagine, that speed.
0:31:35 > 0:31:39Look at it. I've never forgotten this, it was so...
0:31:39 > 0:31:41I thought, thrilling to see this.
0:31:51 > 0:31:56Oh, there's Lord Mountbatten coming across on the jackstay transfer.
0:32:03 > 0:32:06Oh, don't tell me he went down it, did he?
0:32:09 > 0:32:12He did!
0:32:12 > 0:32:15He couldn't resist it!
0:32:15 > 0:32:18PRINCE CHARLES CHUCKLES
0:32:18 > 0:32:19And my father.
0:32:23 > 0:32:26On the way home we went to Gibraltar.
0:32:26 > 0:32:30Of course, you have to go and see the Barbary Apes on the Rock.
0:32:32 > 0:32:36Bit of a hazardous experience, particularly for my sister.
0:32:43 > 0:32:45PRINCE CHARLES CHUCKLES
0:32:47 > 0:32:50COMMENTATOR: 'Down through the narrow winding streets,
0:32:50 > 0:32:53'so familiar to generations of British serving men,
0:32:53 > 0:32:55'went a Royal Family party.'
0:32:55 > 0:32:57Well, I'd forgotten that!
0:33:02 > 0:33:04'There was the Britannia with her armada,
0:33:04 > 0:33:07'bringing back Queen Elizabeth from her journey round the world.'
0:33:07 > 0:33:10This I do remember vividly.
0:33:16 > 0:33:18My grandmother running up.
0:33:18 > 0:33:22Such a long time. Everybody had been away.
0:33:22 > 0:33:25'It was a proud Queen Mother, eager to see her daughter again,
0:33:25 > 0:33:29'and Princess Margaret hurried up the gangway to join her sister.
0:33:32 > 0:33:35'Then the river procession which all London, all Britain,
0:33:35 > 0:33:37'had been waiting to see.'
0:33:39 > 0:33:41BELLS PEAL
0:33:41 > 0:33:43'As the bells rang out,
0:33:43 > 0:33:46'the church bells of all the United Kingdom joined them.
0:33:46 > 0:33:50'For it's her presence, wherever she may be that unites us.'
0:34:00 > 0:34:04Oh, there we are, are we sitting in a carriage?
0:34:04 > 0:34:05Yes, look.
0:34:05 > 0:34:08Learning early how to wave.
0:34:09 > 0:34:11'It was a grey May afternoon,
0:34:11 > 0:34:13'when were those children who'd won all hearts.
0:34:13 > 0:34:16'She drove through London to the end of her journey.'
0:34:16 > 0:34:18And of course in those days,
0:34:18 > 0:34:22it was quite a major expedition to go on these tours.
0:34:22 > 0:34:24And each time they came back, they went to the Guildhall
0:34:24 > 0:34:28for a welcome back, a lunch and everything else and a drive.
0:34:28 > 0:34:32You know, with everything, the Household Cavalry.
0:34:32 > 0:34:35And then I remember, always, there were these endless crowds
0:34:35 > 0:34:36standing outside, you know,
0:34:36 > 0:34:40"We want the Queen, we want the Queen" went on all the time.
0:34:45 > 0:34:48I wouldn't do that now!
0:34:48 > 0:34:52I suffer from vertigo. It's all right when you're small.
0:34:57 > 0:34:59What on Earth did my mama say to me!?
0:34:59 > 0:35:01PRINCE CHARLES LAUGHS
0:35:06 > 0:35:08Mama fishing...
0:35:08 > 0:35:10Extraordinary.
0:35:12 > 0:35:15Oh, look, that's the wonderful old head keeper who was here
0:35:15 > 0:35:19called Don MaCardy, who took me fishing, aged seven, I think.
0:35:19 > 0:35:23I know where that is, that's down from Birkhall.
0:35:25 > 0:35:27My mama hasn't fished for a long time.
0:35:30 > 0:35:33But in the '40s and '50s, she did a bit.
0:35:36 > 0:35:39Oh, I remember that old Ford, it's so wonderful!
0:35:39 > 0:35:44That old Ford station wagon, which creaked, all the wood...
0:35:44 > 0:35:47I've never... It was such heaven.
0:35:47 > 0:35:51Well, that's the first film I've ever seen of my mama fishing,
0:35:51 > 0:35:53it's absolutely riveting!
0:35:55 > 0:36:00It is a wonderful means of recharging batteries,
0:36:00 > 0:36:01Balmoral, I think.
0:36:04 > 0:36:07It just has a very special atmosphere
0:36:07 > 0:36:12and life's so busy, you know, and it's always in public and so on,
0:36:12 > 0:36:16it's just so nice to be able to escape somewhere, like here.
0:36:20 > 0:36:23Oh, look, that was trying to make tea.
0:36:24 > 0:36:27It was always rather exciting trying to get it going!
0:36:33 > 0:36:40No, it's just...vital to... recharge.
0:36:40 > 0:36:42And you feel all the sort of concerns
0:36:42 > 0:36:45and cares leaving you for a bit.
0:36:55 > 0:36:59That must be my pictures again, I think.
0:37:05 > 0:37:07Go on, find it!
0:37:15 > 0:37:18FANFARE
0:37:26 > 0:37:29COMMENTATOR: 'And now begins the ceremony of the Investiture
0:37:29 > 0:37:33'of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.'
0:37:33 > 0:37:37To think what a long time ago it was, really, this.
0:37:37 > 0:37:39I was only 21.
0:37:41 > 0:37:45'Charles Phillip Arthur John...'
0:37:45 > 0:37:50There had been endless rehearsals that I'd been involved in.
0:37:51 > 0:37:57All these people, you see, the great officers of state and so on.
0:37:57 > 0:37:59It was quite funny because the Earl Marshall,
0:37:59 > 0:38:03who was in charge of all this, was a splendid man, the Duke of Norfolk,
0:38:03 > 0:38:08and Garter King of Arms, who was in charge of it...
0:38:08 > 0:38:11They used to have endless arguments, it was quite funny.
0:38:11 > 0:38:13'Her Majesty, takes the sword.'
0:38:13 > 0:38:16I can't remember my mama...
0:38:16 > 0:38:20She came to one. I think we did a bit of a rehearsal.
0:38:20 > 0:38:23But I remember we stamped about the garden at Buckingham Palace
0:38:23 > 0:38:27with people being put in their places!
0:38:27 > 0:38:30Everybody forgetting which way round everything was, it was very funny.
0:38:30 > 0:38:34Anyway, there we are. It happened on the day, that was the great thing.
0:38:35 > 0:38:41'And in a moment, the Prince pays homage to the Queen
0:38:41 > 0:38:46'by placing his hands between those of his mother.
0:38:48 > 0:38:50My mama busy dressing me,
0:38:50 > 0:38:53rather like she did when I was small!
0:38:53 > 0:38:54PRINCE CHARLES LAUGHS
0:38:54 > 0:38:57With the same expression on the face, if you know what I mean.
0:38:57 > 0:38:59Quite funny.
0:39:02 > 0:39:10And then you have to swear fealty, you know, your lifelong liegeman.
0:39:11 > 0:39:14I, Charles Prince of Wales,
0:39:14 > 0:39:17do become your liegeman of life and limb
0:39:17 > 0:39:21and of Earthly worship, and faith and truth
0:39:21 > 0:39:26I will bear unto thee to live and die against all manner of folks.
0:39:28 > 0:39:31It's rather splendid stuff.
0:39:31 > 0:39:33I had to remember it.
0:39:33 > 0:39:37Easier to do aged 21 than it would be now, I think.
0:39:37 > 0:39:40APPLAUSE
0:39:53 > 0:39:55This is desperate pedalling!
0:39:59 > 0:40:03PRINCE CHARLES LAUGHS
0:40:15 > 0:40:17Princess Margaret.
0:40:24 > 0:40:29My mama takes a great pride in her family,
0:40:29 > 0:40:34from having been a young mother at the start of her reign,
0:40:34 > 0:40:39to now being a great-grandmother twice over.
0:40:55 > 0:40:59The photographs would pile up around, you know, everywhere.
0:40:59 > 0:41:03It was trying to find time, I think, for her to sit
0:41:03 > 0:41:05and fit them into the albums.
0:41:05 > 0:41:10But over the years, it's amazing how many she's managed to do.
0:41:10 > 0:41:12Where did I get this hat?
0:41:21 > 0:41:25Oh, there we are, I remember so well that old...
0:41:25 > 0:41:27What are they called, Rolleiflexes or something,
0:41:27 > 0:41:29weren't they called, those cameras?
0:41:48 > 0:41:51I must say they're rather irresistible at that age!
0:41:55 > 0:41:57They're basically sort of cattle dogs, you know,
0:41:57 > 0:42:00so they would sort of snap at the heels of the cattle
0:42:00 > 0:42:01and push them along.
0:42:01 > 0:42:06Course the trouble is they... don't just stop at cattle!
0:42:09 > 0:42:13At Windsor there were a few anxious sentries in sentry boxes,
0:42:13 > 0:42:15I think, from time to time!
0:42:20 > 0:42:24After being here at Windsor for so long,
0:42:24 > 0:42:26it has, I think, a particular resonance for my mama.
0:42:29 > 0:42:33This is the Grand Corridor, Green Corridor, in fact it used to
0:42:33 > 0:42:38be red in Queen Victoria's day I think, and now it's gone green.
0:42:38 > 0:42:45She was here during the war and come every weekend for 60 years.
0:42:45 > 0:42:51And has, I mean, a very great attachment to it I think, you know.
0:42:51 > 0:42:53All the horses are in the stables
0:42:53 > 0:42:58and she always goes for walks down at the bottom of the hill there.
0:42:58 > 0:43:00And of course, you know,
0:43:00 > 0:43:05there's such a big community that lives here now at Windsor.
0:43:05 > 0:43:09And...very much part of her life.
0:43:09 > 0:43:14I mean, who could fail, really, I think, to have their spirits
0:43:14 > 0:43:19raised by a place like this, which was built to pray
0:43:19 > 0:43:22for the souls of the departed,
0:43:22 > 0:43:27and to be a special place of worship for the sovereign.
0:43:30 > 0:43:33It always has had this special significance,
0:43:33 > 0:43:37which, you know, I think the Queen feels very deeply.
0:43:40 > 0:43:42She made a very interesting speech the other day
0:43:42 > 0:43:45about how, you know, the Church of England,
0:43:45 > 0:43:50the fact that it is an established church, she said,
0:43:50 > 0:43:55helps to provide the right kind of protective space
0:43:55 > 0:43:58for all the other religions, that's the point.
0:43:58 > 0:44:01And I think if you talked to any of the other faiths
0:44:01 > 0:44:03in this country, they will all say the same thing.
0:44:03 > 0:44:08They all actually appreciate the way things are structured
0:44:08 > 0:44:12in this country, which provides them with the freedom to worship
0:44:12 > 0:44:15as they wish.
0:44:15 > 0:44:19I think, you know, my mama understands all that
0:44:19 > 0:44:23as it's part of the make up and nature of this country now.
0:44:25 > 0:44:26COMMENTATOR: 'The Queen and her family
0:44:26 > 0:44:28'arrive at a sports ground in Chelsea
0:44:28 > 0:44:30'for Prince Charles's school field day.'
0:44:30 > 0:44:31'Oh, help!'
0:44:31 > 0:44:33'And Charles does the honours by introducing his friends.
0:44:33 > 0:44:36'First, of course, to his mother and then to his father.
0:44:36 > 0:44:40'The boy at the end of the line the Duke has met before.
0:44:40 > 0:44:44'Of course Royal encouragement from the sidelines helps a lot,
0:44:44 > 0:44:47'and Charles makes a sound contribution to the team's effort.'
0:44:47 > 0:44:50My parents were having to sit there watching this.
0:44:52 > 0:44:55'The result - a win for Charles's team!'
0:44:58 > 0:45:00It was quite a long way.
0:45:01 > 0:45:05Being trained early for Gordonstoun, you see!
0:45:05 > 0:45:06'After the display,
0:45:06 > 0:45:10'the Queen waits for her son to change like any other parent.
0:45:10 > 0:45:13'The heir to the throne is learning to mix with other boys,
0:45:13 > 0:45:15'and no-one watching him at work and play can doubt that
0:45:15 > 0:45:18'the experiment is proving a great success.'
0:45:19 > 0:45:21We were away all the time at school.
0:45:21 > 0:45:23So it was the holidays that there was, you know,
0:45:23 > 0:45:27more opportunity to crash about and do other things.
0:45:27 > 0:45:31Then we would see my parents, obviously, a great deal more.
0:45:33 > 0:45:38This is down at Holkham beach in Norfolk, near Sandringham.
0:45:40 > 0:45:42It was a vast beach.
0:45:42 > 0:45:44Goes for miles.
0:45:46 > 0:45:48I think the Queen was taking these ones.
0:45:51 > 0:45:52Great fun sort of shrimping.
0:45:52 > 0:45:55There weren't any shrimps, really.
0:45:57 > 0:46:00We used to sometimes go down in the winter as well.
0:46:00 > 0:46:02But this is summertime.
0:46:10 > 0:46:13PRINCE CHARLES CHUCKLES
0:46:35 > 0:46:37Ah, the things parents do for their children.
0:46:47 > 0:46:50PRINCE CHARLES LAUGHS
0:47:06 > 0:47:09Well, you see, in those days, there was hardly anybody.
0:47:09 > 0:47:12It's much busier now - the beach.
0:47:16 > 0:47:18PRINCE CHARLES LAUGHS UPROARIOUSLY
0:47:43 > 0:47:46One of the highlights of each summer was sailing in Britannia
0:47:46 > 0:47:48round the west coast of Scotland.
0:47:48 > 0:47:53My mama misses that so much now.
0:47:53 > 0:47:56We went every year, you see, every, every...August
0:47:56 > 0:47:58for ten days, I think.
0:48:03 > 0:48:06And, of course, it, um... it mattered enormously to my mama
0:48:06 > 0:48:09because it was a wonderful way, you know,
0:48:09 > 0:48:11for her to unwind a bit, you know...
0:48:14 > 0:48:18..to have picnics and potter about.
0:48:18 > 0:48:20She...she always adored it.
0:48:32 > 0:48:34It was very special.
0:48:37 > 0:48:42Sometimes when I was quite young, we'd go ashore in Northern Ireland.
0:48:42 > 0:48:45Hard to believe it now, but there was no problem.
0:48:48 > 0:48:52I remember a visit there, must have been in the '60s, I suppose,
0:48:52 > 0:48:55and, you know, we didn't seem to be too difficult
0:48:55 > 0:49:00and we drove about and went to visit a great friend of my mama's.
0:49:00 > 0:49:05They'd been together in the war, I think, she and this particular lady.
0:49:05 > 0:49:08So we spent, I don't know, morning or afternoon visiting,
0:49:08 > 0:49:10and it was in a rural area of Northern Ireland.
0:49:10 > 0:49:12I've never forgotten.
0:49:12 > 0:49:15So before the trouble started, you know, badly
0:49:15 > 0:49:19in 1968 or '69 or whatever it was, it was...
0:49:19 > 0:49:23I mean, one forgets, in many ways, how much easier it was then.
0:49:23 > 0:49:27And then, after that, it became impossible
0:49:27 > 0:49:31ever to do anything quite like that until...
0:49:31 > 0:49:37Well, at least in 1977, the Queen, my mama, got there.
0:49:37 > 0:49:39SOLEMN BAND MUSIC PLAYS
0:49:42 > 0:49:43But two years later,
0:49:43 > 0:49:48the Troubles came very close to home with that terrible IRA bomb
0:49:48 > 0:49:51in the little village of Mullaghmore in County Sligo.
0:49:51 > 0:49:54COMMENTATOR: 'Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten
0:49:54 > 0:49:57'is borne in fitting tribute with love and admiration.
0:49:57 > 0:49:58'His Admiral's cocked hat,
0:49:58 > 0:50:00'the sword of honour
0:50:00 > 0:50:02'and his gold stick of office.'
0:50:07 > 0:50:12My mama was deeply fond of Lord Mountbatten...
0:50:15 > 0:50:17..so was I, I must say, but, anyway, it was...
0:50:18 > 0:50:23..one of those, um... desperate things.
0:50:24 > 0:50:26'Her Majesty the Queen...'
0:50:28 > 0:50:30And, of course, the awful thing was
0:50:30 > 0:50:32that he'd been warned not to go to Ireland,
0:50:32 > 0:50:35but he always thought everybody around was very friendly,
0:50:35 > 0:50:37you know, the...what one thinks.
0:50:37 > 0:50:42'The choir will sing the Sentences, I Am The Resurrection And The Life.'
0:50:42 > 0:50:49# I am the resurrection
0:50:49 > 0:50:54# And the life
0:50:54 > 0:50:58# Saith the Lord... #
0:50:58 > 0:51:02I think my mama, she...she... she very much valued, you know,
0:51:02 > 0:51:06being able to talk to him, having known him for so long.
0:51:10 > 0:51:12So we were all left bereft, you know.
0:51:15 > 0:51:17But it was wonderfully done - the funeral.
0:51:17 > 0:51:19That's the great thing about, I think,
0:51:19 > 0:51:24the way things are done in this country, it's, um...
0:51:24 > 0:51:26it's very special...
0:51:27 > 0:51:30..and as a result, even more meaningful.
0:51:30 > 0:51:33BELLS PEAL
0:51:33 > 0:51:37Who could ever have guessed then that things would change so much?
0:51:40 > 0:51:46The fact that the Queen managed to go to Ireland on a state visit
0:51:46 > 0:51:48is a remarkable thing in itself.
0:51:49 > 0:51:50And, er...
0:51:50 > 0:51:55and in many ways I...I think that's, you know, her greatest achievement -
0:51:55 > 0:52:01to have been...which, I mean, after so many years,
0:52:01 > 0:52:04a long, long time, no sovereign had ever been there...from here.
0:52:04 > 0:52:11A Uachtarain, agus a chairde.
0:52:11 > 0:52:12Wow!
0:52:12 > 0:52:13APPLAUSE
0:52:13 > 0:52:18And it was remarkable, I think, how it has helped to lay so many ghosts.
0:52:19 > 0:52:22It is a sad and regrettable reality
0:52:22 > 0:52:26that our islands have experienced more than their fair share
0:52:26 > 0:52:29of heartache, turbulence and loss.
0:52:31 > 0:52:37These events have touched us all, many of us personally,
0:52:37 > 0:52:39and are a painful legacy.
0:52:39 > 0:52:44With the benefit of historical hindsight
0:52:44 > 0:52:50we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently
0:52:50 > 0:52:51or not at all.
0:52:52 > 0:52:57But it is also true that no-one who looked to the future
0:52:57 > 0:53:03over the past centuries could have imagined the strength of the bonds
0:53:03 > 0:53:04that are now in place
0:53:04 > 0:53:08between the governments and people of our two nations.
0:53:12 > 0:53:17Completely transformed the situation and the relationship.
0:53:18 > 0:53:21It has really made the difference, I think.
0:53:24 > 0:53:25A year on from that visit
0:53:25 > 0:53:29and the Diamond Jubilee, I think, gives us a chance
0:53:29 > 0:53:35to celebrate with pride all that the Queen means to us...
0:53:35 > 0:53:39both as a nation and, indeed, as one of her children.
0:53:42 > 0:53:44Looking back to the start of her reign
0:53:44 > 0:53:46makes you realise how young she was
0:53:46 > 0:53:49when she came to the throne.
0:53:49 > 0:53:51She and my father were new parents
0:53:51 > 0:53:53just setting up home with their children,
0:53:53 > 0:53:57and she can't have expected to be thrown into her new role so soon.
0:53:58 > 0:54:02The death of her beloved father at the age of only 57
0:54:02 > 0:54:04must have been a terrible shock.
0:54:06 > 0:54:09Oh, look how marvellously my grandfather...
0:54:21 > 0:54:23- PRINCE CHARLES CHUCKLES - Oh, it's got caught, you see,
0:54:23 > 0:54:26look, on her brooch...my cardigan.
0:54:31 > 0:54:34PRINCE CHARLES LAUGHS
0:54:51 > 0:54:53I hadn't realised my parents had taken those films
0:54:53 > 0:54:55- when- I- was very small
0:54:55 > 0:54:57and my grandfather was still around because...
0:54:57 > 0:55:02I mean, one of my greatest regrets is not having really known him,
0:55:02 > 0:55:03and I really mind that.
0:55:06 > 0:55:08It says Christmas Day, 1951.
0:55:10 > 0:55:12Oh, dear, it was so near to when my grandfather died,
0:55:12 > 0:55:14that was the awful thing.
0:55:15 > 0:55:19Here we all are - everybody sitting at Christmas.
0:55:20 > 0:55:23To think that he only died only a month or two after.
0:55:25 > 0:55:28COMMENTATOR: 'To London Airport come the King and Queen
0:55:28 > 0:55:30'to speed their daughter and her husband on the first stage
0:55:30 > 0:55:33'of their 30,000-mile journey to Australia and New Zealand.
0:55:33 > 0:55:36Princess Elizabeth and the Duke are taking the place
0:55:36 > 0:55:39'of their Majesties who were to have made the tour.'
0:55:42 > 0:55:43'On their way out to Australia,
0:55:43 > 0:55:46'my parents stopped over in East Africa.
0:55:47 > 0:55:49'It was as far as they were destined to get.'
0:55:49 > 0:55:53Well, this obviously must have been a film my father and my mama
0:55:53 > 0:55:56must have taken in Kenya.
0:55:58 > 0:56:02This, I think, was in that... Treetops, I think it's called.
0:56:03 > 0:56:07It was this sort of hotel in the trees, I think.
0:56:12 > 0:56:15Amazing, isn't it, to sit right above them like that? Incredible.
0:56:20 > 0:56:22It was that night they spent at Treetops
0:56:22 > 0:56:26that my grandfather died in his sleep.
0:56:26 > 0:56:29But, of course, my parents had no idea,
0:56:29 > 0:56:33and even next day when they moved on to this rather lovely game lodge,
0:56:33 > 0:56:37it took a while for the news to come through.
0:56:37 > 0:56:41Then, of course, they had to pack up and fly back to London.
0:56:47 > 0:56:50Oh...must be the aeroplane.
0:56:53 > 0:56:56So I presume it's my father taking the photographs.
0:57:06 > 0:57:08Never seen this, no, no.
0:57:08 > 0:57:11So these must be the first pictures taken of my mama
0:57:11 > 0:57:13after she knew she was Queen.
0:57:19 > 0:57:21I suppose when you first set out,
0:57:21 > 0:57:25you don't think about how long things might go on for,
0:57:25 > 0:57:29but the Queen has provided an amazing record of, you know,
0:57:29 > 0:57:32devotion and dedication, and commitment.
0:57:34 > 0:57:37And each year, you know, doing the same...
0:57:38 > 0:57:41..following the same patterns which...which helped to sort of,
0:57:41 > 0:57:44I think, anchor things a bit, you know, and give reassurance
0:57:44 > 0:57:49that something is there which is perhaps a little more timeless
0:57:49 > 0:57:53than other things which are changing all the time, you know.
0:57:53 > 0:57:58MUSIC: God Save The Queen
0:57:58 > 0:58:00That's the great thing, I think.
0:58:00 > 0:58:07# May she defend our laws
0:58:07 > 0:58:14# And ever give us cause
0:58:14 > 0:58:21# To sing with heart and voice
0:58:21 > 0:58:29# God save the Queen
0:58:29 > 0:58:34# God save the Queen
0:58:34 > 0:58:45# God save the Queen. #
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