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A very warm welcome back. It is the final day of the Diamond Jubilee | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
celebrations. We are covering the day's events live on BBC One. There | :00:35. | :00:45. | |
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is lots to come. The Jubilee lunch Let's give you a sense of what is | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
to come. There is lots of comings and goings. After that lunch, at | :01:03. | :01:11. | |
around 2:30pm, we are expecting the Queen and the other royals to be | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
leaving Westminster Hall, leaving Westminster Hall, | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
encourages this time, for the procession to Buckingham Palace. By | :01:17. | :01:24. | |
the time more of that is done, at around 3:25pm, the Queen will lead | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
the party onto the balcony at Buckingham Palace. There will be a | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
fly-past by the Royal Air Force, including a grand old Lancaster | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
bomber, the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, together with some | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
more modern jets. So, plenty to come over the next couple of hours. | :01:44. | :01:51. | |
And of course, we have our BBC presenters pretty much everywhere. | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
We can go to Fiona Bruce now, at the Palace of Westminster, where | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
the lunch is happening. The crowds have been waiting for hours here to | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
see the Queen and come out. The see the Queen and come out. The | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
procession will be making its way towards Buckingham Palace. The | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
people are streaming towards us, to try to get the chance to see the | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
Queen. The bells are peeling from Westminster Abbey. The bands have | :02:18. | :02:28. | |
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been entertaining the crowds as well. Are you excited? We will be | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
back with Fiona Bruce in a short while. We mentioned the Jubilee | :02:32. | :02:42. | |
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party not just at the Palace, but also at St James's Park, hosted by | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
Fearne and Jake. Yes, welcome back. We have got the likes of Suggs and | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
John Barrowman, and we are hoping a couple of Olympians will also drop | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
in to have a chat. We are also hoping the sun will put in an | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
appearance this afternoon. Indeed. We will be back with you in | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
a short while. The crowds are really building up on the Mall. | :03:06. | :03:14. | |
They have come across from Westminster. Chris Hollins is there. | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
Yes, the crowds are swelling, they have been growing for the last four | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
or five hours. Some people have been here overnight. They are all | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
waiting for that glimpse of the Queen. We will be catching up with | :03:28. | :03:37. | |
a few of them later on. We were mentioning that 2012 is a | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
very big year. Not just because of the Diamond Jubilee, there is some | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
football going on as well, and of course, the Olympic Games. Who | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
better to talk about these events them Dame Kelly Holmes? It is great | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
to have you with us. It is great to be here. Did you watch the concert | :03:55. | :04:04. | |
last night? I did. How amazing was that? For me, we have just put the | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
Great back in Britain. The concert, it was just extraordinary. When you | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
look at Buckingham Palace, the footage. I have to admit to being a | :04:15. | :04:23. | |
royalist. I was welling up! Did you watch it on the television? I did, | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
it was amazing. The line-up down the Mall. Just that sense of | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
celebration, all of us coming together, I absolutely love it. I | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
love seeing the Union Jacks, the young and the old together. And the | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
Queen. And I have to pay my respect, I hope the Duke of Edinburgh will | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
be well. But to see the Queen, I have to say, this last few days, | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
every time I have seen the Queen, she has had this magnificent smile | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
on her face. She was a beautiful young woman when she came to the | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
throne, and you can see that almost showing through as she has gone a | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
long in her days. You know something about people waving flags, | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
given what you have achieved. Now that we're counting down, after | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
this great day today, towards the Olympics in London, what are your | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
thoughts? I mean, it is seven years since they declared it was coming. | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
Now, we are right on the verge of having the Games here - what are | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
you thinking? I really hope the momentum keeps going. We have | :05:30. | :05:39. | |
really put our mark on the nation's, with the Jubilee as well, this year. | :05:39. | :05:47. | |
It is just going to get bigger and better as we go along. Firstly, I | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
think the performances in the stadium, in the swimming pool, | :05:53. | :06:00. | |
wherever it will be, they are the things which we will remember. But | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
also I think the celebrations, bringing together the community | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
from around the country, that's really what will make these Games | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
stand out. We will have millions of people supporting has come as a | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
nation. I think what we do best is the celebratory events, the tourist | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
industry is going to be... For us as a nation, it is really going to | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
set a level for things to come. are you going to be approaching the | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
Games? You're a icon, a great symbol of Olympic success, but your | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
role will be rather different to eight years ago, so, how do you | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
prepare for it, are you comfortable with that change? Yes, for the past | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
seven years, it has been a big learning curve, I have learned many | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
things, but hopefully I have also helped some of the athletes who | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
will be competing in London 2012 as well. I will take up that mantle of | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
cheering them on with their family. It is really nice to have you with | :07:02. | :07:11. | |
us. Now, the party in full swing, pretty much, in St James's Park... | :07:11. | :07:20. | |
Yes, we have got a lovely crowd here. They have all been enjoying | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
watching the big screen. Before long, the carriage procession will | :07:24. | :07:34. | |
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be coming down the Mall. Right now, alongside us is John Barrowman. | :07:35. | :07:42. | |
Thanks for being here. The River Pageant is one of the highlights of | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
the Jubilee celebrations, and you got the chance to be on a boat, on | :07:46. | :07:53. | |
the River - what an opportunity. Yes, it was amazing. I have never | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
felt so proud of being British as on that particular day. Everybody | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
around the world was watching. The fact that we had an opportunity to | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
do something which probably in our lifetimes will never ever happen | :08:05. | :08:13. | |
again. Rain, bring it on, we stood there. I was drenched, I know you | :08:13. | :08:22. | |
were, Fearne, as well. It was the most amazing day. And I was warm | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
and dry in front of the television! But we had never seen anything like | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
it before. Also to be asked to do something like that, to be involved, | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
I did a little video, and I tweeted it, I just got overwhelmed with | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
emotion. I started bubbling a little, while I was on the barge. I | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
don't know if you can express to everybody, even though you were | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
watching it on television. For those of us who were there, and we | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
were right at the front, looking back at the royal flotilla and one | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
of the boats, it was one of the most incredibly amazing things I | :08:59. | :09:06. | |
have ever done. I was so proud to be part of it. You have spent a lot | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
of time in the States, where they are very patriotic - it feels like | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
this weekend, everybody has fallen back in the love with the Union | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
Flag, the desire to be British. Absolutely, and I think we should | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
be proud to fly the flag, proud of being British. BBC America are | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
showing this, as we speak, to the United States. It is going out all | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
over the world. So, as Kelly Holmes just said, it is time to put the | :09:36. | :09:46. | |
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Great back in Great Britain. It is amazing. I did have an ear plug in | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
my left ear yesterday. But those bells were so loud. They were loud | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
when we were in the barge, but also, I was stood up most of the time on | :09:58. | :10:05. | |
the side, waving to people. I thought, I have got to do this. But | :10:05. | :10:15. | |
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they were very, very loud. I think it was three or four tons of bells. | :10:19. | :10:26. | |
Thank you very much for joining us. Last night was incredible as well. | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
I was one of the 70 million people watching at home. There were tens | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
of thousands more on the Mall. Only one lady got a backstage pass. | :10:35. | :10:43. | |
There was a few of us! This is her report. Sir Tom Jones, Sir Cliff | :10:43. | :10:52. | |
Richard, Sir Paul McCartney. Cheryl Cole! JLS... It is going to be | :10:52. | :11:02. | |
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amazing. This is the Queen's 1.3 million people applied for | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
tickets, but with just 10,000 up for grabs, this lot are the lucky | :11:14. | :11:21. | |
ones. Do you mind if I come and chat to you? This looks very | :11:21. | :11:31. | |
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civilised indeed. You have got champagne! I know. A chocolate cake | :11:32. | :11:39. | |
with a little crown on it. Everything about it is just... | :11:39. | :11:46. | |
Isn't it beautiful? How does it feel to be here today? It is | :11:46. | :11:56. | |
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awesome, we are so excited. Help yourself. No, I can't. Go on, it is | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
the least I can do. This must be quite overwhelming, you're in the | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
grounds of the Palace, you have got a wonderful packed lunch. | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
cannot explain it, the feeling inside, to think that you're | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
actually here, in the gardens, one of the they're few - it is | :12:18. | :12:28. | |
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absolutely beautiful. -- one of the know? You seem so calm and composed. | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
What's there to worry about? don't know. A huge concert for the | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
Queen. It's going to be amazing. I don't know if you have noticed. I | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
know there is a huge buzz at the front, but back here, everyone's | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
really excited to get on tonight. Also, you have been hanging around | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
the palace. You're kind of every day at the moment. This is my | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
workplace at the moment. It has been an amazing two years because | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
we started planning this two years ago. The fact we're here is amazing. | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
Good luck tonight. We're so excited. Brilliant. | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
# Put some whiskey in your water # Sugar in your tea | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
# What's all this crazy questions they're asking me? | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
# This is the craziest party there could ever be | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
# Don't turn on the lights # Cos I don't want to see | :13:28. | :13:37. | |
# Mama told me not to come # She said - # | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
I was here ten years ago for the Golden Jubilee. Now I am leer for | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
the Diamond Jubilee, which is the - the ten years - I don't know what | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
happened to that it went so quick. I hope the next ten years - I hope | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
it doesn't go as quick as the last ten! | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
# Smoking scares me half to death # When the Queen is there, I twitch, | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
you know? She has that effect. # Mama told me not to come | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
# Mama told me # She said "That ain't the way to | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
have fun, son." # Do you feel the pressure? Do you | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
feel the nerves? I felt fine about it, until somebody told me there | :14:20. | :14:27. | |
was an audience of over a billion watching, then it was kind of like, | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
oh, no pressure, then. # White lips | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
# Pale face # Breathing in snowflakes | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
# Burnt lungs # Sour taste # | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
The stage looks cool. I remember watching the Golden Jubilee ten | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
years ago. They had it in the other garden. | :14:45. | :14:55. | |
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Yeah. And Brian May was playing. It's a bit different. It's cool. | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
Will.i.am! Continue-ton! We just spoke to Cheryl, who said she had | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
been hanging around you today and that you were very excited about | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
this huge British celebration today. I was really excited. I am still | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
excited - a bit emotional, thrilled, blessed, honoured, humbled. | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
# Here we come # Here we go. | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
# We got to rock-rock-rock-rock # Easy come, easy go | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
# Now we're on top-top-top-top # Body shock | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
# Rocking no stop # I got a feeling | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
# Ooh - ooh # It's so nice, everyone coming here. | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
It is so nice. It didn't hit me how big it was until I was on stage. | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
# Tonight is going to be a good, good night | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
# And if you love me - # Do you know the Queen is a fan of | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
the Black Eyed Peas? No, I didn't know. William and Harry definitely. | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
They get down. I want to hang out with those dudes. | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
# Say hell yeah! # Have you met the Queen before? I have years ago. | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
Will you meet her tonight? I hope so. Will you practising your | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
curtsey? I have been practising all day! | :16:17. | :16:25. | |
# It's a quarter to 1.00 # And I need you now | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
# Said I would cope # But I lost all control, and I | :16:30. | :16:37. | |
need you now # This is fourth person I have spoken | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
to today. There is a lot of us around, and there is a few Dames as | :16:41. | :16:51. | |
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well! # You'll never know what it is like | :16:52. | :16:59. | |
# It's like ice # You wind up behind the - # | :16:59. | :17:07. | |
Great day, huh? The line-up is brilliant. There is some pop music, | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
a lot of SirS. Richard Gary came over to see me. I said, "Who else | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
is on the bill?" He started naming quite a diverse group of people. I | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
thought it was a good idea to get something in for the young kids, | :17:20. | :17:30. | |
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something in for the old kids. Oh, it was such a wonderful evening. | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
Amazing. It really was. We're now joined by one of last night's | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
performance, Sgugs from Madness. How are you? I am good, a little | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
bit rough around the edges, but it was an emotional night. It was | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
incredible what you guys did. You were at the top of Buckingham | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
Palace performing to so many people out there with fireworks. How did | :18:15. | :18:22. | |
it feel? It was amazing. We rehearsed Saturday, and it was | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
amazing to get to see the panoply of London's skyline. It was empty | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
when we rehearsed, but then to see the Mall and all the people... | :18:32. | :18:40. | |
you can see it properly, and I have to say the graphics on top of the | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
palace just enhanced the performance. That's it. We weren't | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
just a backing band! Not at all! The guys with the graphics said to | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
me, "Do you like the idea of me turning Buckingham Palace into a | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
block of flats?" I said the only time I had a view like that is when | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
I lived in the flats I lived in as a kid. Did you have slight vertigo | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
up there? I do suffer from vertigo, actually, but I was so excited, I | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
was a bit away with the fairies. I kept having to remember I was up | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
there to do something, not just enjoy myself - sing the song, for | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
instance. I wasn't too bothered about the vertigo, no. It's 2.00pm. | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
You still have the sunglasses on. How was the party? Those eyes look | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
OK. It's not too bad - kind of bright we did stay up for a time | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
watching the news clips. And how was the party at the palace? It was | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
extraordinary, and there were so many Princes, Harry and Edward and | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
Andrew and the other one - William. Funnily enough, our keyboard player | :19:45. | :19:52. | |
got a bit overwhelmed. Paul Chowdhry came -- Paul McCartney | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
came over to him and said hello, and he was like, what are we doing | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
here, Madness?! All of this encouragement we have been | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
receiving from the public among Queen and the parties, we're doing | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
a tour in November. We're starting at Butlins and ending up at the O2 | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
in December. It will be novel to be back on stage instead of on top of | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
a building. Well done. Congratulations. | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
Yes. Well done. If you have just joined us, welcome to the last day | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
of the Diamond Jubilee weekend here In 20 minutes, that lunch at the | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
Palace of Westminster will end, and the Queen will leave in a carriage | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
procession and come back here - Parliament Square, Whitehall, | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
Trafalgar Square. This is the route for you. They'll be leaving | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
Westminster Hall. They'll be travelling up Whitehall past the | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
Cenotaph and up to Trafalgar Square, and then it's a left-hand turn | :20:49. | :20:57. | |
through Admiralty Arch and along the Mall and just passing Saint | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
James' Park there towards the Queen Victoria Memorial where the concert | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
took place last night towards the central gates and into the palace | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
before the appearance on the balcony in a short while. Coming up | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
in the next hour, we'll be joined by more special guests. We'll have | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
Andrew Lloyd-Webber, Terry Wogan, Andrew Bunton, Ronny Corbett, the | :21:19. | :21:25. | |
list goes on. We'll also be talking to David Cameron and one of his | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
predecessors, Sir John Major. Before that, the chance to take | :21:28. | :21:35. | |
stock a about the day so far with our Royal correspondent Nicholas | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
Witchell. The morning service, what did you make of it? For the Queen I | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
am sure it's one of the major features of the weekend. We know | :21:42. | :21:51. | |
how important her faith is to her. I think she looked very relaxed - | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
as relaxed as you can be in a service of that kind. The news | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
about her husband must be reassuring. We haven't been getting | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
any details by Buckingham Palace, but as we were reporting last night, | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
there was no concern about his health as there was six months ago. | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
I think he'll emerge from the hospital and rejoin the Queen for | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
the rest of the Jubilee programme. The members of the Royal Family | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
were looking relaxed. I think the Queen, as she always does, was | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
paying close attention to the sermon by the Archbishop of | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
Canterbury, a trenchant sermon, looking at it from a theological | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
perspective, trenchant remarks about financial greed and other | :22:32. | :22:38. | |
remarks. The Queen listening very, very carefully. They had rearranged | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
the seating, moved her back so she was sitting with her family instead | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
of alongside her husband. There was an important component I think will | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
have mattered for her. Now fingered crossed once again for the weather. | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
Those carriages could be closed, but I can't imagine it would be | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
closed unless it was absolutely pouring down, and I think we'll see | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
the Queen in a carriage with the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
Cornwall, so a another rearrangement in view of the | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
absence of the Duke of Edinburgh. You have travelled a lot in the | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
last few months as part of the celebration. What has been the | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
impact on the country, do you think? It's interesting. I think | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
that this Jubilee has a bigger and more spectacular feel than ten | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
years ago with the Golden Jubilee. Let's face it - many of the | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
sentiments that are being expressed now were expressed ten years ago. | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
We were all here seeing the Golden Jubilee. I think there is an | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
important difference. It is this: the family is more united now. | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
They're ten years older now. They have had the addition of one new | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
significant face within the woifl. I think they're more together. I | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
think they're more at ease amongst themselves and with the country. I | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
think Prince Charles is far more at ease than he was ten years ago. I | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
think the Queen is now much more at ease with herself, more relaxed, | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
and it is showing, so despite the difficulties, despite the downpours | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
Sunday, despite the absence of the Duke of Edinburgh for half of this | :24:04. | :24:06. | |
weekend, in a funny way I think it's building up and will be | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
remembered - and we'll have to wait to see what she says in her | :24:10. | :24:17. | |
broadcast at 6.00pm this evening in her Jubilee when she thanks people, | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
that it will have been a success. Thank you. We have been talking to | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
lots of people giving us their thoughts on what has been going on | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
around this Jubilee. Here's some more voices. | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
We are Diversity, and we met the Queen at the 2009 Royal Variety | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
Performance. The idea is we were soldiers designed to protect the | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
Queen and our kind of powers - or our dance skills is how we showed | :24:46. | :24:53. | |
that off. When they sat us down and told us about the etiquette of | :24:53. | :24:59. | |
"ma'am" and "jam" and all of this... It went in one ear and out and | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
crumbled. I don't think I said one word when I met her. I think it's | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
the first time the Queen has ever seen a street dance performance. I | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
hope it made a good impression. gave us the confidence that if we | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
can do a show like that we could really go forward in our careers | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
and make our mark on the world of entertainment. A magnificent scene, | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
the Household Cavalry waiting. The Sovereign's Escort patiently | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
waiting for the lunch in Westminster Hall to come to an end, | :25:28. | :25:34. | |
a lunch involving some 700 people - the City Livery Companies, and the | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
Blues and Royals and the lifeguards smartly turned out waiting for the | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
Queen to emerge, and then they'll escort the Royal carriages back to | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
Whitehall and over to Buckingham Palace. That's coming up in just a | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
few minutes, and with me to chat about the weekend and - we were all | :25:53. | :26:01. | |
oohing and awing over the scene there - Ronnie Corbett, Emma Bunton, | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
thank you for being with us. Last weekend's concert, what did you | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
make of it? It was incredible. There were some amazing stars. I | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
was lucky enough to be in the Golden Jubilee. We were in the back | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
garden, but this of course was taking part in the front. It was | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
amazing to watch on the telly, but the whole coverage for me has been | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
so wonderful, and also, London has looked so beautiful even with the | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
rain, but this whole backdrop - it's been incredible to watch at | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
home, and I have been to street parties and I have had my own | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
little party at home, my own barbecue. I just love the fact we | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
come together at this time. remember ten years ago you were on | :26:36. | :26:43. | |
one of those big floats. That's right, with the famous champ... | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
Whatever his name was! Yes, we came down here on the float, that's | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
right. And I also - because the picnic went on behind Buckingham | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
Palace... Yes. Remember, with the children? And I played the Queen's | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
butler, so I was actually on the premises. Amazing And walked on the | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
stage with her, so I was quite thrilled. What have you made of the | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
weekend's events? Have you enjoyed it? Unbelievable, really wonderful, | :27:11. | :27:18. | |
so spectacularly lovely, and she and the Duke - I mean, showing | :27:18. | :27:25. | |
immense patience and - for their age. Sunday. Yes, hanging on to it. | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
I loved Sunday. Emma, from your point of view - we were just about | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
to see what was going on in that lunch, but just your thoughts on | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
what has been achieved this weekend. How special has it been? It has | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
been so special! And on Sunday, when you were just talking about | :27:40. | :27:46. | |
when she was on the bam, it was so lovely when you saw her space like | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
when you saw the war horse on top of the National Theatre, her face | :27:49. | :27:55. | |
just lit up. I think it has been absolutely amazing. Let's go back | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
to Westminster Hall. Your Royal highnesses, my Lords, ladies and | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
gentlemen, pray silence for the Lord Speaker, the Right honourable | :28:05. | :28:15. | |
:28:15. | :28:15. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 58 seconds | :28:15. | :29:14. | |
Your Royal Highnesses, my Lords, The anthem plained by the National | :29:14. | :29:17. | |
Children's Orchestra of Great Britain. | :29:17. | :29:22. | |
-- played. The Duke of Cambridge surveying the scene there. The | :29:22. | :29:26. | |
lunch is just coming to an end. The formal toast has been made, so | :29:26. | :29:30. | |
within a few minutes I think we can expect to see the royal party | :29:30. | :29:33. | |
preparing to leave Westminster Hall. There'll be a few minutes' delay | :29:33. | :29:38. | |
before that happens and then they will emerge from the North Door, | :29:38. | :29:42. | |
including the Duchess of Cambridge, and they'll take their places in | :29:42. | :29:45. | |
the carriage procession to return to Buckingham Palace. The Prince of | :29:45. | :29:50. | |
Wales is enjoying a chat there with the hosts at his table. All of | :29:50. | :29:54. | |
these hosts are senior members of livery companies in the City, who | :29:54. | :29:57. | |
do so much work for charities around the year. Lots of the guests | :29:57. | :30:01. | |
are young people who are people who've either benefited from the | :30:01. | :30:05. | |
charitable work that goes on or people who are associated with the | :30:05. | :30:14. | |
work. The Queen now is ready to leave Westminster Hall after lunch. | :30:14. | :30:20. | |
The wand of the Marquis of Cholmondley, the Lord Great | :30:20. | :30:26. | |
Chamberlain. He is in charge of the Palace of Westminster, principally | :30:26. | :30:30. | |
the Robing Room, but Westminster Hall is under the joint | :30:30. | :30:40. | |
:30:40. | :30:46. | ||
jurisdiction of several officers in Other members too are preparing to | :30:46. | :30:50. | |
leave. Final arrangements to be made there. Ronnie Corbett and Emma | :30:50. | :30:57. | |
Bunton are still with me. It's a splendid scene isn't it, and all of | :30:57. | :31:02. | |
it is taking place within Westminster Hall, a myrrh sent | :31:02. | :31:05. | |
building. And everybody is doing their job so well, all moving at | :31:05. | :31:15. | |
the right time. Moving like clockwork. And the catering is by | :31:15. | :31:20. | |
Heston Blumenthal I think. People leaving the concert last | :31:21. | :31:26. | |
night were clutching their picnics very tightly. Very delicious. | :31:27. | :31:32. | |
didn't want to leave any of it behind. They were hanging on to | :31:32. | :31:36. | |
those baskets for a long time. Just celebrating this weekend is | :31:36. | :31:39. | |
something that lots of people enjoy doing and lots of people are taking | :31:39. | :31:44. | |
advantage of the fact that we are on an extended bank holiday, two | :31:44. | :31:48. | |
bank holidays to add on to the weekend. It is at a time when | :31:48. | :31:51. | |
Prince Charles said last night the economy is in a tough state. That's | :31:51. | :31:55. | |
right. Lots of people are suffering, lots of people are out of work and | :31:55. | :31:58. | |
people think this is a good thing to do to cheer people up, would you | :31:58. | :32:04. | |
agree with that? I would agree, yes. People cared very deeply this | :32:04. | :32:10. | |
weekend. Absolutely. More than the last time. One of the great things, | :32:10. | :32:14. | |
Emma, last night was when we saw the concert, you got a real sense, | :32:14. | :32:17. | |
not just the fireworks and the great artists that were involved, | :32:17. | :32:22. | |
and you know all about it from 2002. The amount of work that goes into a | :32:22. | :32:28. | |
concert like that. Unbelievable. is astonishing. The people work so | :32:28. | :32:33. | |
hard, and Gary Barlow, who put so much into the show. He e-mailed so | :32:33. | :32:38. | |
many people to come and join. It was amazing to watch. And I love | :32:38. | :32:41. | |
the traditions. I loved the lighting of the beacon last night. | :32:41. | :32:45. | |
That was so important, so special. It's been really magnificent. I | :32:45. | :32:52. | |
love the traditions. I love the street parties. I love the bunting. | :32:52. | :32:59. | |
Naturally you love the bunting, you being a Bunton. Seems like a good | :32:59. | :33:05. | |
moment to say thank you both very much. Thank you. Lovely to see you. | :33:05. | :33:08. | |
Thank you. Back to the Palace of Westminster to see what's going on | :33:08. | :33:14. | |
there. We can update... Ah, that's a great sight, the Yeomen of the | :33:14. | :33:20. | |
Guard, who are one of the oldest royal bodyguards, formed by Henry | :33:20. | :33:27. | |
VII, after the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. They were put together to | :33:27. | :33:31. | |
help the King protect himself, because Henry VII was a King who | :33:31. | :33:35. | |
needed a lot of protection at that time. The yoement of the guard are | :33:35. | :33:41. | |
in place and we often see them at times like this, as they are there | :33:41. | :33:46. | |
to form a guard of honour for the Queen. This is the scene outside | :33:46. | :33:50. | |
Westminster half. The kind of carriage that we've come to expect. | :33:50. | :33:56. | |
The carriage procession will make its way out of New Palace Yard into | :33:56. | :34:00. | |
Parliament Square, and then along Whitehall, in a scene that lots of | :34:00. | :34:04. | |
people who've been queuing all day will be delighted to see. Although | :34:04. | :34:08. | |
the cars were impressive, the cars and the carriages and horses are | :34:08. | :34:12. | |
what it is all about. That's at the heart of the tradition of these | :34:12. | :34:22. | |
:34:22. | :34:23. | ||
great proessential events. -- processional events. The 1902 | :34:23. | :34:26. | |
great State Landau is going to be the one used by the Queen and | :34:26. | :34:30. | |
probably by the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall too. We'll | :34:30. | :34:37. | |
have to see how they configure these today. The 1902 is a grand | :34:37. | :34:44. | |
carriage. It was made for Ed ward VII for his Coronation in 1902. But | :34:45. | :34:49. | |
when that Coronation happened Edward VII had been suffering from | :34:49. | :34:53. | |
ill health and they scaled down the organisation of that Coronation, so | :34:53. | :34:58. | |
the carriage wasn't used until later in that year, 1902. The | :34:58. | :35:07. | |
carriage is still in perfect working order today. | :35:07. | :35:13. | |
One of the great sights of these days, these traditional ceremonies | :35:14. | :35:19. | |
that we have, Mounted Bands of the Household Cavalry. They are well on | :35:19. | :35:23. | |
their way down The Mall, because they are making their way towards | :35:24. | :35:28. | |
Buckingham Palace right now and entertaining the crowds as they go. | :35:28. | :35:31. | |
But really fulfilling an important function. The drum horses there, | :35:31. | :35:35. | |
great favourites among the crowd, the function being to announce that | :35:35. | :35:41. | |
the sovereign will soon be on her way. | :35:41. | :35:46. | |
And with me is the esteemed royal commentator and best-selling author, | :35:46. | :35:52. | |
and a man who writes for the Daily Mail, Robert hardman. Nice to see | :35:52. | :35:58. | |
you again. Where have you been? Paul's Cathedral. What did you make | :35:58. | :36:03. | |
of it? Faith is incredibly important to the Queen, but the | :36:03. | :36:06. | |
human touches, the way they changed things around to accommodate the | :36:06. | :36:10. | |
fact the Duke wasn't there. And first class music. Music has been | :36:10. | :36:13. | |
one of the great themes of this Jubilee, fantastic river on the | :36:13. | :36:18. | |
river and last night, and more of it on The Mall in a few minutes. | :36:18. | :36:22. | |
you think there's been a sense in which, we talked earlier about a | :36:23. | :36:27. | |
rebranding or the re-emergence of a new profile of the monarchy over | :36:27. | :36:33. | |
this weekend. Is it saying too much to say that? I think it's been on | :36:33. | :36:36. | |
an upward trajectory since the Golden Jubilee. Certainly in the | :36:36. | :36:39. | |
last year or two it's been marvellous. The wedding last year, | :36:39. | :36:43. | |
the visit to Ireland, everything has been going in the right | :36:43. | :36:46. | |
direction. And through it all the Queen herself hasn't changed one | :36:46. | :36:52. | |
bit. She's stuck, she is very much the same person we saw in 1952, but | :36:52. | :36:57. | |
she's been open to innovation and the institution she runs has come | :36:57. | :37:04. | |
along in leaps and bounds under her watch. The Director of Music is | :37:04. | :37:10. | |
riding Aerial. I must give you the details of the drum horses. | :37:10. | :37:17. | |
Achilles and Mercury today. Lance Corporal Paul Darcy and Lance | :37:17. | :37:21. | |
Corporal Paul Kent are riding the drum horses with the enormous | :37:21. | :37:28. | |
kettle drums and the distinctive sound that they make. They'll be | :37:28. | :37:32. | |
busy at work in a few weeks' time at the Queen's birthday parade of | :37:32. | :37:35. | |
course as well, where they are one course as well, where they are one | :37:35. | :37:45. | |
:37:45. | :37:47. | ||
of the prime features of Trooping the Colour. | :37:47. | :37:57. | |
:37:57. | :37:57. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 58 seconds | :37:57. | :39:28. | |
The fanfare signals that the Queen his white wand of office. | :39:28. | :39:31. | |
He accompanys the Queen to the North Door of Westminster Hall. | :39:31. | :39:36. | |
This is where the traditional carriage procession will begin. | :39:36. | :39:42. | |
Black Rod on the left there. He is in charge of security and so much | :39:42. | :39:47. | |
of the management of the House of Lords and is responsible for many | :39:47. | :39:51. | |
events in whole ham. He was one of the prime organisers of today's | :39:51. | :39:56. | |
lunch. He is also a Governor of the National Children's Orchestra, who | :39:56. | :40:04. | |
are playing today. The Prince of Wales and the Duchess | :40:04. | :40:10. | |
of Cornwall will accompany the Queen in the 1902 State Landau. | :40:10. | :40:14. | |
Robert Hardman is still with me. That's what they have done to | :40:14. | :40:18. | |
rearrange this procession? That's right. We've lost one of the | :40:18. | :40:23. | |
originally three open carriages, the three landaus. We are now going | :40:23. | :40:27. | |
to see two. Very neatly done. Obviously it would've been poignant | :40:27. | :40:33. | |
but rather unkind to expect the Queen to travel on her own. And | :40:33. | :40:38. | |
here again we see what we've seen lot in the Jubilee, the generations | :40:38. | :40:42. | |
mixing it up. It is much of a team event. At the Golden Jubilee it was | :40:42. | :40:48. | |
just the Queen and the Duke coming down The Mall in an open-top Range | :40:48. | :40:54. | |
Rover, greeting the procession. Here we see all the family together. | :40:54. | :40:58. | |
Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, she travelled with her daughter and | :40:58. | :41:00. | |
daughter-in-law law. There are many echoes I think of that moment here | :41:00. | :41:10. | |
:41:10. | :41:10. | ||
today as we see this. We are still enjoying dry weather | :41:11. | :41:19. | |
as the trumpeters of the Household Cavalry signal that the Queen is on | :41:19. | :41:23. | |
her way and that the Sovereign's Escort too is ready. | :41:23. | :41:33. | |
CHEERING Two horses pulling the Queen's | :41:33. | :41:40. | |
landau called Storm and Cloud. I theep that isn't an omen! This is - | :41:40. | :41:48. | |
- I hope that that isn't an omen! This is what the crowd are waiting | :41:48. | :41:51. | |
for. The river on Sunday was very much a charms II affair, the | :41:51. | :41:58. | |
concert last night a 21st century affair, but this is timeless, the | :41:58. | :42:03. | |
pageantry. This is what we saw at the Royal Wedding last year and on | :42:03. | :42:08. | |
great occasions. We can see rain drops but the Queen is unperturbed. | :42:08. | :42:12. | |
There was a back-up to put her in the Australian State Coach, the | :42:12. | :42:19. | |
only one with central heating, but she said no thaw, it -- no thank | :42:19. | :42:29. | |
:42:29. | :42:30. | ||
you, it may rain a bit but the people need to see me. | :42:30. | :42:34. | |
There are first and second divisions of the Sovereign's Escort | :42:34. | :42:39. | |
leading the way. The Queen's carriage passing the Cenotaph, | :42:39. | :42:49. | |
:42:49. | :42:49. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 58 seconds | :42:49. | :43:39. | |
and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince The Escort Commander, we caught a | :43:39. | :43:45. | |
glimpse of him there of the Lifeguards. | :43:45. | :43:49. | |
And there we can see the Field Officer of the Escort, Lieutenant | :43:49. | :43:53. | |
Colonel Dan Hughes, we heard from him a while ago of the Blues and | :43:53. | :44:03. | |
:44:03. | :44:16. | ||
Four divisions of the Household Cavalry, consisting of 116 men, | :44:16. | :44:26. | |
:44:26. | :44:35. | ||
part of the Sovereign's Escort There we have a real sense of the | :44:35. | :44:39. | |
procession itself and there we can see the blocks of the Sovereign's | :44:39. | :44:42. | |
Escort, if you like, the great divisions. The first, second, third | :44:43. | :44:47. | |
and fourth divisions of the Sovereign's Escort. On Horse Guards | :44:47. | :44:50. | |
Parade the King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery with their special | :44:50. | :45:00. | |
:45:00. | :45:02. | ||
The Scarlett main dressings there, which have have made especially for | :45:02. | :45:09. | |
the Diamond Jubilee. As we come down Whitehall we will | :45:09. | :45:13. | |
see all the street liners there represent the three services from | :45:13. | :45:17. | |
the Royal Navy, Army and airforce, it's when we turn to the Mall and | :45:17. | :45:21. | |
head for home we see the streets there are going to be lined | :45:21. | :45:27. | |
entirely by Foot Guards from the Household Division. There we see an | :45:27. | :45:31. | |
Officer of the RAF and the Army. They'll be pleased to see some of | :45:31. | :45:41. | |
:45:41. | :45:49. | ||
The route is somewhat longer than traditional for these things, | :45:49. | :45:56. | |
because we are going around Trafalgar Square, a place full of | :45:56. | :46:02. | |
Commonwealth reasonances with South Africa House and Canada House and | :46:02. | :46:07. | |
going past the headquarters of the Commonwealth at Malborough House. | :46:07. | :46:12. | |
This has been a big event, not just in Britain but all the 16 realms | :46:12. | :46:16. | |
around the world which have the Queen as their head of state, from | :46:16. | :46:26. | |
Canada and Australia, they've all taken a major role in this. Many | :46:26. | :46:29. | |
have sent their Prime Ministers and we might all be back to work | :46:29. | :46:37. | |
tomorrow, so is the Queen, she is having lunch with all 54 nations at | :46:37. | :46:42. | |
Marlborough House. What a great view, Admiralty Arch. There you can | :46:42. | :46:52. | |
:46:52. | :46:55. | ||
The crowds around Admiralty Arch. This was the vision really of | :46:55. | :47:02. | |
Edward VII. He didn't live to see it completed. | :47:02. | :47:09. | |
It was George V who presided over the opening of this new imperial | :47:09. | :47:15. | |
avenue. All of it laid out as a memorial to | :47:15. | :47:22. | |
Queen Victoria. The Queen is about to go past the | :47:22. | :47:27. | |
memorial statue of her dear late father and the memorial she | :47:27. | :47:33. | |
recently unveiled to the Queen Mother, coming up on the right. | :47:33. | :47:39. | |
A poignant moment. This is a very happy day, lots of happy memories | :47:39. | :47:49. | |
:47:49. | :48:02. | ||
of all these landmarks she's about Down past Clarence House and | :48:02. | :48:12. | |
:48:12. | :48:30. | ||
The Blues and Royals and their dark navy tunics. | :48:30. | :48:35. | |
In 1897 there were 50,000 troops on the streets for the Queen | :48:35. | :48:41. | |
Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, today there is about 160. And just over | :48:41. | :48:44. | |
1,000 members of the other armed forces but it's still a great | :48:44. | :48:48. | |
spectacle. It's not all about imperial clout today. It's about | :48:48. | :48:58. | |
:48:58. | :49:05. | ||
spectacle. But that's one of the John Nelson. The head coachman Mark | :49:05. | :49:08. | |
Hargreaves today. Both of them very experienced, and they'll be working | :49:08. | :49:18. | |
:49:18. | :49:27. | ||
again for the Queen's birthday I think the crowds are larger here | :49:27. | :49:37. | |
than they were for the Royal wedding. 20, 30-deep in places. | :49:37. | :49:43. | |
Royal Standard, a sense of its size and how impressive that is. They | :49:43. | :49:47. | |
have standards in different sizes but you can rest assured they | :49:47. | :49:53. | |
really pulled out the best one in the drawer. And that's the view | :49:53. | :49:57. | |
from within St James' Park. You are right, that gives a sense of the | :49:57. | :50:01. | |
depth of the crowd. It's worth remembering it was the | :50:01. | :50:06. | |
scenes on the last day of the Golden Jubilee which formed the | :50:06. | :50:11. | |
backbone of the bid video London took when it was bidding for the | :50:11. | :50:15. | |
Olympics, the scenes of the Golden Jubilee is when Lord Coe and his | :50:15. | :50:19. | |
team said to the International Olympic Committee look how we put | :50:19. | :50:23. | |
on a party. That's really what helped win London the Olympics. I | :50:23. | :50:26. | |
think there will be many reasonances of that. We are going | :50:26. | :50:30. | |
to see that over again shortly when they open up the roads and crowds | :50:30. | :50:36. | |
come pouring down. We are in for some of the great sights of 2012 in | :50:36. | :50:46. | |
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It was a very nice speech last night. It hit the right note, I | :50:54. | :51:02. | |
think. There was due formality, and then mummy. A dig at some of the | :51:02. | :51:06. | |
comedians who had been having a pop at the Royal Family early on. One | :51:06. | :51:09. | |
of the most touching moments, it's often the unscripted things we | :51:09. | :51:13. | |
remember from these great occasions, but as he expressed his good wishes | :51:13. | :51:19. | |
for the Duke of Edinburgh and suddenly you heard the crowd | :51:19. | :51:22. | |
chanting "Philip, Philip", I never heard anyone chanting like that | :51:22. | :51:26. | |
before and this morning as the Queen arrived at St Paul's, you | :51:26. | :51:31. | |
could hear this chant of "God Save the Queen", you don't get that sort | :51:31. | :51:36. | |
of chanting at Royal events. But these last few days have definitely | :51:36. | :51:41. | |
triggered something and it doesn't really matter there is perceived | :51:41. | :51:45. | |
setbacks, whether it's the weather or illness, they've all in a sense | :51:45. | :51:50. | |
helped to elevate the affection for the Queen even more. They have a | :51:50. | :51:55. | |
sense of she will just carry on regardless, whatever adversity | :51:55. | :51:59. | |
throws at her and here, as she heads for home, look at the smile | :51:59. | :52:09. | |
Into the arena, where last night's concert took place and the stands | :52:09. | :52:14. | |
are still here and thousands of people in them. It's tailor-made | :52:14. | :52:20. | |
for a grand finale. It's a brilliant set. I think it's six | :52:20. | :52:23. | |
Royal Festival Halls on one one site, it's an enormous logistical | :52:23. | :52:27. | |
operation and it's great. It does allow lots more people to see it | :52:27. | :52:31. | |
than normally would. This is where we get a bird's eye view from the | :52:31. | :52:41. | |
:52:41. | :52:44. | ||
There we are. You get a real sense of the colour, | :52:44. | :52:52. | |
the sweep, we just saw the Sovereign Standard of the | :52:52. | :53:02. | |
:53:02. | :53:38. | ||
Lifeguards. A very nice shot of some of the | :53:38. | :53:43. | |
coachmen, wearing the state livery, some are so precious they have to | :53:43. | :53:46. | |
actually find a coachman that will fit the uniform, rather than the | :53:46. | :53:56. | |
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There you see the contrast, this is the soft yellow bath stone of the | :53:58. | :54:01. | |
old Palace, as opposed to the hard white stone of the front. It's a | :54:01. | :54:05. | |
contrast. It is. There is a contrast on the inside, one half | :54:05. | :54:15. | |
:54:15. | :54:24. | ||
has just been cleaned and that side This is where the Queen and the | :54:24. | :54:30. | |
other members of the Royal Family will settle down inside the Palace | :54:30. | :54:34. | |
for a while, before they then appear on the balcony. That will be | :54:34. | :54:39. | |
one of the iconic moments of this Jubilee. It absolutely will. Not | :54:39. | :54:44. | |
only the Battle of Britain Flight and the Irish Guards down below | :54:44. | :54:49. | |
attempting a great feat of arms, a feu de joie, ripple of gunfire | :54:49. | :54:56. | |
which is difficult to do. It's a technique which was pinched off | :54:57. | :55:01. | |
Napoleonic troops and was perfected for the Queen's 80th birth Kay and | :55:01. | :55:04. | |
-- birthday and she loved it then, I think it's one of the reasons | :55:04. | :55:08. | |
they've decided to do it again today. There is the Colonel of the | :55:08. | :55:12. | |
Irish Guards, the Duke of Cambridge who wore their uniform on his | :55:12. | :55:22. | |
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That is a presentation of a posy by tpeup tpeup -- Philipa Jackson who | :55:30. | :55:36. | |
would have been in a third carriage if there had been one today. A | :55:36. | :55:39. | |
tradition, and it's left in the carriage for the Queen on certain | :55:39. | :55:49. | |
:55:49. | :55:54. | ||
events but presented here today There we see the guard of honour, a | :55:54. | :56:00. | |
large guard of honour today. Robert has told us it's the 1st Battalion | :56:00. | :56:03. | |
Irish Guards and with the band of the regiment and pipes and drums | :56:03. | :56:11. | |
and they're ready for the ceremon ceremonial events that are to come. | :56:11. | :56:15. | |
And Robert is still with me. I am wondering before we have a flavour | :56:15. | :56:18. | |
of what's going on in the Mall, we will do that in a second, because | :56:18. | :56:24. | |
as you say the crowds are building, when they appear on the balcony | :56:24. | :56:29. | |
there behind us, a sense of what that image will mean. I think to | :56:29. | :56:33. | |
the Queen it will mean, well, apart from the fact it will mean this is | :56:33. | :56:38. | |
the climax t will mean I really can reflect on these four days. I can | :56:38. | :56:42. | |
reflect on the fact this has gone probably far better than anyone | :56:42. | :56:49. | |
expected. With the obvious exception, the Duke missing the | :56:50. | :56:53. | |
final part of celebrations. Whatever the fate has thrown at | :56:53. | :56:56. | |
these events, none of it has dampened it and the Queen has | :56:56. | :57:02. | |
genuinely loved every minute of it. There are experts on Queen smiles | :57:02. | :57:07. | |
can detect different levels and we have seen some absolutely genuine | :57:07. | :57:11. | |
smiles today. I think when she looks down the full length of the | :57:11. | :57:15. | |
Mall and sees those crowds, hundreds of thousands, I don't know | :57:15. | :57:19. | |
how many are in the streets? Let's get a sense, we will join Chris | :57:19. | :57:23. | |
Hollins there for us. Thank you very much, Huw. We see | :57:23. | :57:28. | |
the crowds behind us here. They've been waiting very, very patiently | :57:28. | :57:34. | |
all morning. They managed to see the Queen. Was it worth the wait to | :57:34. | :57:40. | |
see the Queen? Yes. Fantastic. You gave her a good wave. At what time | :57:40. | :57:50. | |
did you get here? 1.00 yesterday. And was it worth it? Absolutely | :57:50. | :57:56. | |
worth it. Every minute. Seeing you was the best bit. Thank you very | :57:56. | :58:00. | |
much. Flattery will get you everywhere. You get a real global | :58:00. | :58:04. | |
feel about the audience today. People have come from everywhere, | :58:04. | :58:10. | |
United States, people from Columbia, Russia. They all want to be part of | :58:10. | :58:14. | |
this enormous pageantry. You can see the the fun and excitement on | :58:14. | :58:20. | |
their faces. Chris, thank you very much. | :58:20. | :58:24. | |
More to come, of course. That fly- past and the balcony appearance. We | :58:24. | :58:27. | |
will be back with Chris in a while. We will also be hearing from the | :58:27. | :58:30. | |
Prime Minister, we saw the Prime Minister and his wife at St Paul's | :58:30. | :58:33. | |
this morning. We will be talking to the Prime Minister in a few minutes. | :58:33. | :58:38. | |
We also received a tribute, which is a tribute that's been delivered | :58:38. | :58:42. | |
for the Queen from the White House. This is what the President had to | :58:42. | :58:47. | |
Majesty, on the historic occasion of your Diamond Jubilee Michelle | :58:47. | :58:52. | |
and I send you and all the British people and members of the | :58:52. | :58:55. | |
Commonwealth the heart-felt congratulations of the American | :58:55. | :58:59. | |
people War and in peace, in times of plenty and in times of hardship, | :58:59. | :59:02. | |
the United States and the United Kingdom have shared a special | :59:02. | :59:08. | |
relationship. We've stood tall and strong and together we faced some | :59:08. | :59:14. | |
of the greatest challenges this world has known. While many | :59:14. | :59:19. | |
presidents and Prime Ministers have come and gone, Your Majesty's reign | :59:19. | :59:25. | |
has endired. As I said last year at Buckingham Palace that makes Your | :59:25. | :59:29. | |
Majesty a witness to the alliance and a chief source of its | :59:29. | :59:34. | |
resilience. As a steadfast ally, loyal friend and tireless leader. | :59:35. | :59:40. | |
Your Majesty has said an example of resolve that will long be | :59:40. | :59:45. | |
celebrated. As we work together to provide a better future for the | :59:45. | :59:48. | |
next generation it is gratifying to know that the bonds between our | :59:48. | :59:52. | |
nations are indispensable, to our two countries and to the world | :59:52. | :59:56. | |
Honour of your 60 extraordinary years on the throne, communities | :59:56. | :00:00. | |
across the Commonwealth have lit thousands of Jubilee beacons. And | :00:00. | :00:06. | |
may the light of ormajesty's crown continue to reign supreme for many | :00:06. | :00:09. | |
years to come. The Diamond Jubilee tribute paid by President Obama. | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
That came in from Washington just a short while ago. To recap, we will | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
be talking to Prime Minister David Cameron in a short while. That's in | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
Downing Street. Fiona Bruce will be talking to Mr Cameron. Back to St | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
James's Park, because a real sense of the crowds building there too as | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
we approach the climax of the day here. Back to our friends in St | :00:31. | :00:37. | |
James's Park. Thank you Huw. Moments ago the | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
royal carriage passed us here. Ladies, did you see the Queen go | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
past? Sort of. We saw the top of the carriage. How long have you | :00:46. | :00:55. | |
been here in St James's Park today? 7.30. We were the first people. Who | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
came with you? My mum and her mum. Who did your face painting? My mum. | :01:01. | :01:09. | |
She's done a lovely job. Would you like a royal biscuit? Sure! | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
involved. Nice, feel free to share the biscuits here as well. If you | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
thought Fearne's friends are impress to have have been here so | :01:19. | :01:25. | |
early, this is Harriet. She splashed urgent on some very | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
exclusive Jubilee accommodation. Tell us about your night's sleep | :01:28. | :01:35. | |
last night? My five-star street of London accommodation was fantastic. | :01:35. | :01:43. | |
12 of us have come down, including my mum, who was 72, and she came | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
down for the Coronation. Three generations of my family. These are | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
my nieces. We slept out. We had a brilliant night last night, dancing | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
with policemen, dancing in the streets. We've had a fantastic | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
night and we are now ready to go home. But not until you've seen the | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
Queen and the balcony. You don't want to sleep in a tent on The Mall | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
all night and miss that moment. Send my lover to your mum. I will. | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
No royal celebration is complete without the crowds, the bunting, | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
and, my favourite, royal memorabilia. Look at this. | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
Souvenirs have been produced to mark royal occasions for over 300 | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
years, and right now shops are full of anything and everything marked | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
Diamond Jubilee. But there is only one collection of memorabilia which | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
comes with Her Majesty's approval. This is produced in Stoke-on-Trent. | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
They have had to create something very special for this Jubilee year. | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
Hate been through many sets of eyes, many incarnations before we | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
presented it to the Queen. Fortunately she liked it and signed | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
it off. Stoke-on-Trent has had an association with the ceramics | :02:59. | :03:07. | |
industry for many years. These are made by skilled craftsmen and women. | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
When we started the business never in our wildest dreams would we | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
think we would be making china for the Queen's Jubilee. The royal | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
collection makes Apple tiny part of the variety of souvenirs available. | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
Some of us might buy one or two items but one lady in a London | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
suburb has managed to top 10,000 over the past 32 years. There is no | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
limit to what I buy in the shape of royal memorabilia. If I like it, I | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
buy it. I was always interested in the Royal Family even as a little | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
girl, because I'm four years older than Prince Charles, so I used to | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
cut out photographs of him and Princess Anne. It grew from there. | :03:49. | :03:58. | |
I have to have my house in section, -- sections because I can't stand | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
my house mixed up. This is an egg cosy from 1887. I think they had | :04:04. | :04:11. | |
larger eggs then than we do! This is Edward and Alexandra. Here we | :04:11. | :04:18. | |
have George and Mary. This is where we come to my silver Jubilee room. | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
There are a lot of mugs and plates brought out. Everybody had street | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
parties. We dressed our children in red, white and blue crepe paper. It | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
was a lovely old-fashioned time really when you look back on it now. | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
This is my Diamond Jubilee collection, which is growing day by | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
day and which I'm thrilled about. Here we have the Queen. When the | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
sun shines on her handbag, she waves for us. Shis Solar Queen. | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
I've met the Queen on four different occasions and it's the | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
most magical feeling. You feel so uplifted and for days after you are | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
just wandering around, off with the fairies really. It's the most | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
wonderful feeling. And now joining news St James's Park is the lovely | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
Paloma Faith everyone! CHEERING Have you had a lovely Jubilee | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
weekend? I've had an amazing time. My album went to number two in the | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
charts, so I've been celebrating that. And I was out in Soho | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
yesterday looking at all the drag Queens that were dressed as the | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
Queen. Amazing. Everyone is getting involved and having a lovely time. | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
I want to talk to you. I love buying anything royal. Any royal | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
memorabilia. Do you have anything yourself at home? I don't think I | :05:37. | :05:44. | |
have, but I want to take all of this back. What's your favourite so | :05:44. | :05:51. | |
far? Jelly and ice Crete. We have the Queen jelly, a wobblely Queen, | :05:51. | :05:58. | |
with some ice cream from the Queen's scoop. I love that. | :05:58. | :06:08. | |
:06:08. | :06:09. | ||
face is just ice cream. I love that a lot. Slightly ma cab ra. Thon one | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
she is just chilling out in a tea cup. This is probably one of the | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
more unusual ones. If you have eaten too much you can vomit into a | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
Jubilee sick bag. And the colours, red or blue, it is up to you. I | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
have one of these at home, a solar- powered Queen that waves, which is | :06:31. | :06:38. | |
useless but brilliant. She is pro- environment. She is. Top Trump | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
cards. A fan of these as a kid? These are good. We can ask each | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
other questions about things like one's favourite yacht. Sure. Or a | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
corgi et cetera. Or one favourite couple. Why not? One's favourite | :06:54. | :07:00. | |
time of year. Can I bring in our male model, Jake Humphrey here. | :07:00. | :07:10. | |
:07:10. | :07:12. | ||
Gorgeous! Hello! High-visibility diamond Liz! Would you wear that? | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
You know me, I'm up for anything. And I have a royal tattoo as well. | :07:18. | :07:26. | |
I've got a corgi. Thank you very much Paloma Faith everyone. | :07:26. | :07:36. | |
:07:36. | :07:38. | ||
I took the initiative when I met the Queen. I said the reason I'm | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
here today is I wham the Charge for Sport Relief. She asked how much I | :07:42. | :07:50. | |
raised and I said, "�1 million. I wanted to si, "Make it �2 million" | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
but I thought she wouldn't appreciate that. She asked if I was | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
covered in goose fat and I said yes, but it is not as much fun as it | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
looks. It made her smile a bit. I didn't get to meet her again until | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
last year. She has the ability to make us feel special. When you've | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
done something really tough for charity it is the icing on the cake. | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
David wall yam there is. Some more thoughts on what's going | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
on today. What's been going on for the past three or four days and the | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
significance of it. We are going 10 Downing Street to join Fiona. Prime | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
Minister, we saw you doing your reading at St Paul's this morning. | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
How has your weekend been for you? It has been a mixture of things in | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
my constituency, tiny village street parties, where the whole | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
village turns out, and the huge events for which Thames river | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
pageants and the service at St Paul's. We've seen the best of | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
Britain, people coming together to celebrate the Queen's Diamond | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
Jubilee. But we've also seen a great resilience, people wanting to | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
celebrate even though the weather's been pretty bad, and an | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
extraordinary resilience on behalf of Her Majesty, who despite of all | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
the problems and difficulties have kept going with incredible spirit. | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
She is a real inspiration. In 1981 you were camped out on The Mall for | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
Charles and Diana's wedding, is that right? The weather then was | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
very good but it was fun. I remember spending the night there | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
and the party atmosphere and watching some of your TV coverage | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
just now and seeing the people who slept in the park last night and | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
having a party, it took me back to what it was like then. I know you | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
were country dancing in your constituency and you had a street | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
party in Number Ten? That's right. We had a street party half outside, | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
we had the Scouts outside, and quite a lot of elderly people | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
coming through a number of different local charities. We | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
brought them together for a street party, which was agreement it was a | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
rel opportunities to bring people into this extraordinary building | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
and use all the rooms that we've got to have our own celebration. | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
But with my family I've been down in Oxfordshire, very small villages, | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
very small events, but everyone turns up. There was country dance | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
but there were no cameras. I'm quite pleased about that. I'm sure | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
we are all relieved about that, Were at the concert last What did | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
you make of that? It was magnificent. The combination of | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
incredible old stars and some new stars, opera, popular music, I | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
thought the lighting up of Buckingham Palace, I don't know how | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
they did that but it was absolutely brilliant. It was a great night. | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
What this weekend shows we've got this incredible institution, the | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
monarchy, which people revere and love. It brings the country | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
together. It is above politics. We are also great with our culture and | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
our music and all the vibrancy of a modern country. I thought last | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
night really showed that in a sensationally exciting way. | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
have your own briefings with the Queen every week. How significant, | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
how important are they to you? are very important, because he she | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
is a very important part of the institution. This weekly meeting of | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
trying to set out the problems and challenges the country faces and | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
some of the global challenges is a very useful exercise in itself, but | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
also Her Majesty has seen 11 other promise. She knows every member of | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
state. She's travelled to virtually every country in the world. Her | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
knowledge, experience and good old- fashioned common sense is very hard | :11:37. | :11:45. | |
to beat. Prime Minister, thank you very much. Thank you. | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
A sense here of the crowds building because there is not long to go | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
before we have that spectacular fly-past by the ra. The crowds are | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
surging towards Admiraltyry arch and being held back by that line of | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
police at the moment, but they will gradual I will be allowed to flow | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
down The Mall towards the Queen Victoria ma moral and Buckingham | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
Palace itself. You get a real sense of the crowd that is now building | :12:14. | :12:21. | |
along The Mall and all of them flowing out from St James's park on | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
the southern side of The Mall on to the great expanse of The Mall | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
itself. But it does give you a true sense of the size and the strength | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
of this crowd. It reminds us a little of the crowd here last night | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
for the concert, which was indeed impressive. Chris Hollins is there | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
for us and can give us a better sense of what's going on and the | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
mood there. Thank you Huw. As ever everybody is | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
really looking forward to that moment they can walk down The Mall | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
and surround Buckingham Palace. They seem quiet at the moment... | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
CHEERING Look at these beautiful faces | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
painted with the Union Flag there. You are looking a bit tired. What | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
time were you here yesterday? O'clock but prior to that I had | :13:07. | :13:15. | |
camped out for the river pageant. So you have really gone full out? | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
Absolutely soaked. I've probably got trench foot by now I would | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
think. But it is worth it isn't it? It is amazing. It looks as if the | :13:24. | :13:32. | |
Queen has Lent you one of her Where are you from? You were here | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
for the 50, 60 and you will be for the 70? Excellent. People from | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
India in the background. You get a sense of a real global event. You | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
are all ready to go towards Buckingham Palace. Some of them are | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
a bit shy. That's the sort of enthusiasm we | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
have been looking for. How are you feeling? Wonderful, thank you. | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
Where are you from? Canada. So many people from the Commonwealth here, | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
all wanting to share in this fantastic moment, the Jubilee. | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
hours, it was worth the 24-hour wait. That's what makes Great | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
Britain great. Thank you very much indeed. | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
There you have it summed up in a few words. | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
The very orderly flow of people down the Mall. | :14:25. | :14:35. | |
:14:35. | :14:37. | ||
They're managed by the police and Steadily making their way down, I | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
think we can guarantee the Mall will be packed by the time this | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
flow of people has been allowed to make its way all the way down to | :14:44. | :14:54. | |
:14:54. | :14:56. | ||
the railings in front of Buckingham And still they run along, people | :14:56. | :15:03. | |
joining from Trafalgar Square and Whitehall itself. A couple of | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
umbrellas in evidence, but some up for a bit of show, they don't | :15:06. | :15:16. | |
:15:16. | :15:22. | ||
really need them. Happily, it's That's the crowd making its way | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
through Admiralty Arch, the three great arches open and two small | :15:25. | :15:33. | |
pedestrian arches. The steady progress of the front | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
row. Very similar to the scenes that we | :15:39. | :15:46. | |
were talking about ten years ago for the Golden Jubilee and it's | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
quite clear that those scenes are going to be matched again. | :15:50. | :15:58. | |
What an impressive sight. The Mall, with the enormous Union | :15:58. | :16:08. | |
:16:08. | :16:10. | ||
flags hanging from the trees either The flags of the different nations | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
of the UK fluttering there and different nations across the world | :16:14. | :16:24. | |
:16:24. | :16:32. | ||
and the Commonwealth fluttering in They know what to wait for, because | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
they know they're going to get that appearance on the balcony in a | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
while, but they also know there's to be a fly-past. I should explain | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
that the fly-past will involve 18 aircraft, flying over Buckingham | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
Palace. There will be 1,000-1,500 feet in terms of their height and | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
in terms of the range of their flights. They'll be going over | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
Buckingham Palace at low level and it will be impressive because of | :16:59. | :17:06. | |
the nature of the aircraft involved, including a Lancaster and, of | :17:06. | :17:14. | |
course, the red arrows, some spitfires and a Hurricane, too. A | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
real sense of modern aircraft, allied with some of the the | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
aircraft that have played an important part in warfare in the | :17:23. | :17:33. | |
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The crowd now gradually filling the Mall. | :17:48. | :17:56. | |
People joining from all kinds of points of entry, from St James' | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
Park, and they'll all be ready for the Queen's appearance on the | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
balcony in a while. And that impressive fly-past. And | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
that will be the culmination, the highpoint of the events, after the | :18:11. | :18:21. | |
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service, of course, at St Paul's While we look at these images I am | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
going to introduce my next guest but we are not going to see him but | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
once he starts speaking you will know who it is. | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
Why don't I ask you to say a few words for us, first. People will | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
know exactly who it is. Well, Huw, it's a delight to be here. Sir John | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
Major, thank you very much. We were hearing from David Cameron a while | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
ago and good to have you with us. Thank you. First of all, the day, | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
what did you make of today? quite extraordinary. But then it's | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
been an extraordinary two or three days. The whole country's been in | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
the middle of a great party. People have come out in a way that I think | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
very few people actually imagined. I had been around a long time, I | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
don't think I have seen anything quite like this before. Why has it | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
happened? I think it's a culmination of things. We live in a | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
pretty cynical world, sadly, these days and people have seen someone | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
who for 60 years has been the best example of selfless service that I | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
think you can possibly imagine. In some fashion that is now | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
communicated itself to people and this opportunity has been a great | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
opportunity to show what people think of the monarchy and this | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
particular monarch. This is an amazing scene. It certainly is. | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
I can't imagine hardly anyone else in the world who could draw crowds | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
like this. Here we are looking at the mall, but I have driven from | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
south London, it's the same way along much of the route. Huge | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
numbers of people just crowding in the streets, holding flags from the | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
very eldery, to Little Children barely able to toddle. It's a | :20:02. | :20:09. | |
memorable sight. Lots of people today talking about | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
2002 and indeed thinking back to 1977. What were you doing back in | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
1977 for the Silver Jubilee, do you remember? I do remember, I was | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
standing in the streets, like everybody else. I remember it very | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
well indeed. I remember the Coronation. It was another great | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
celebration at the time. It lifted the gloom of the post-war years in | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
a truly remarkable fashion. have a particular interest over and | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
above the usual interest in today's events because you are chairman of | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
the Diamond Jubilee Trust. That's correct. What does that involve. | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
Well, the trust has been set up at the request of all the Commonwealth | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
Prime Ministers, and heads of Government, all 54 countries, | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
they've set up the Trust to raise money to set up legacy projects to | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
honour the Queen's long reign. The Queen has said please don't make | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
presentations to me. If you wish to make a tribute, then donate your | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
tribute to the Diamond Jubilee Trust. We are going to raise as | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
much money as we can in this country and right across every | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
country of the Commonwealth, from governments, local governments, | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
individuals, people can donate via our website. When we have raised as | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
much as we possibly can in one year only we are then going to utilise | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
it in a relatively small number of big projects to help people in the | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
- right across the Commonwealth. How will you decide thousand spend | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
the money? It Will be an objective decision but the sort of thing we | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
have in mind, not final decisions, but sort of thing, why not | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
scholarships for the disabled? There are schemes around the world, | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
I know of no scholarship scheme for the disabled. That would be a | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
wonderful, permanent tribute. We are looking at how we can restore | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
sight to to many people who are blind, their sight can be restored. | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
We are looking at schemes in cities where people are short of nutrition | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
and good food to set up urban gardens, even in tower blocks and | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
flats you can set up urban gardens to grow food. That's the sort of | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
project that we are looking at. We will be working with really great | :22:09. | :22:16. | |
charities like the Eden Project and Sightsavers. We thought we could | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
use sport particularly for the young, the concept of teams, rather | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
than gangs, all across the Commonwealth that's necessary. It's | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
a huge range of ideas. First, we have to raise the money and once we | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
have the money, as much as we can get, I set no target, as much as we | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
can get, then we can disperse it on schemes in honour of the Queen that | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
will be badged, as it were, to show it's in honour of the Queen and | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
that it will make a real difference to lives of people who have much | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
less than most of us. Sir John, as ever, great to talk to you and | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
thank you for coming in to talk to us. Enjoy the day. Thank you. | :22:51. | :22:57. | |
John Major there. Chris is on the Mall, let's join him. | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
The crowd is slowly making its way towards Buckingham Palace and | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
they've finally arrived. Look at them. | :23:04. | :23:11. | |
Swarms, wave after wave of happy people. | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
Scouts, Brownies, we have seen everybody make their way to the | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
Palace. Finally, they're here to see that all-- what they've wanted | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
to see the balcony shot. Now they're here and all very excited. | :23:26. | :23:36. | |
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And on it goes. There you can see the great build-up just at the | :23:48. | :23:55. | |
point where the stands for the concert are in place. | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
Very soon the order will be given for the ranks of police officers | :24:00. | :24:08. | |
there to lead on and they will fill the area, that semicircle around | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
the main carriage gates. That will be an impressive moment. That will | :24:12. | :24:19. | |
be in a few minutes, because we are about, I reckon maybe 20 minutes | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
away from the actual appearance. It could be 15 minutes. | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
Sort of rough timings at the moment. That's the kind of timing we are | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
talking about. St James' Park will now be seeing | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
people drifting down towards the Palace. Let's go back there. | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
What a moving powerful sight there on the Mall. We will be heading | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
there ourselves in a moment. It's important to focus on the fact that | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
actually this weekend is also the start of a really important | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
sporting summer for this small island of ours, the Euro | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
championships in a few days and the next time the Mall is packed with | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
people waving flags it will probably be the culmination of the | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
marathon or road race for the Olympic Games and two people who | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
know all about the Olympics, Kelly Sotherton and Mark foster. For all | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
the athletes involved in the Olympics, the next time the country | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
feels like this they will be the focus of attention. In Olympic | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
terms, when the torch arrived in the West Country in Cornwall the | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
buzz sort of started and went around communities and seeing | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
people coming out and lining the roads with the the torch going | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
around and what you have seen here with the Jubilee, the country's | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
getting behind, not only the Olympics, behind the Jubilee, | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
everything, which is wonderful to see. You have carried the Olympic | :25:42. | :25:49. | |
Flag in Beijing but you are a torch-bearer as well. On July 6th, | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
in Southend, this is actually for my mother. I told her not to come | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
to Beijing and the night before I got told I was going to carry the | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
flag she rang me and went really, you told me not to come. Now I am | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
going to carry the torch, she might be the one that runs alongside me | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
and grabs it. Kelly, I have to say hardlines for you, because you were | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
looking to compete in 2012 and sadly you have announced your | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
retire tphplt the last few -- retirement in the last few days. | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
was trying to qualify for the Olympics and a week prior I hurt my | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
back, so I rested for a week to try to get to the competition in one | :26:27. | :26:33. | |
piece. I did, but halfway through the 200 metres my back went. I have | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
a slipped disc and it hit the nerve. I had to wave my dream goodbye and | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
I had an operation that week T would have taken too long to come | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
back and as I had the qualified score from the previous year I | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
couldn't make the Olympics. It's heart-wrenches because I have had a | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
terrible couple of years. I was always retiring, retiring. How will | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
you feel watching, now you are not par taking? I really want to enjoy | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
it, because it's not every day the Olympics are in Great Britain and | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
it will probably never be here in my lifetime. I have tickets for | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
various events and I will enjoy it and support the team. The BBC | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
coverage is going to be quite good, as well. You can enjoy that. Mark, | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
you will be working down there. Give us people to look out for, | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
playerly -- particularly in the pool. You always find the pool is | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
one of the places everybody loves to go. A lot of athletes in the | :27:29. | :27:39. | |
:27:39. | :27:40. | ||
past said we have to come to the pool. Phelps will be there. | :27:40. | :27:50. | |
:27:50. | :27:52. | ||
Franklin, some new names. England's perspective, Becky Adlington. And | :27:52. | :28:02. | |
:28:02. | :28:06. | ||
Kerry Anne Payne. Thank you very The surge continues, as people have | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
seen the opportunity to get up close to the Palace, close to the | :28:10. | :28:15. | |
railing, and to have a great view of the famous balcony when the | :28:15. | :28:18. | |
Queen and other members of the Royal Family will appear in a short | :28:18. | :28:24. | |
while. I want to send in everyone for sending messages. We've | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
received lots. I want to convey a few of them as we keep on with | :28:28. | :28:37. | |
these images. All kind of people are turning up, people in | :28:37. | :28:43. | |
pushchairs, slightly stunned but enjoying the day. Chuck in London | :28:43. | :28:47. | |
doesn't give a surname but we thank you for the message. He sums up the | :28:47. | :28:51. | |
messages from lots of people, saying these are amazing Jubilee | :28:51. | :28:56. | |
celebrations. They make everyone fall in love again, he says, with | :28:56. | :29:02. | |
the Union Jack. It shows how great and united Britain is. Mark the | :29:02. | :29:07. | |
Leicester says he loves the sight of people piling down The Mall. | :29:07. | :29:12. | |
This is happening right now Mark, so I hope you are happy with these | :29:12. | :29:17. | |
images. And Jack Rosser, who doesn't say where he is, he wishes | :29:17. | :29:22. | |
he was in London. The atmosphere, he says, looks amazing. I can tell | :29:22. | :29:26. | |
you what, Jack, it peoples amazing as well. Our studio here at | :29:26. | :29:32. | |
Buckingham Palace is just yards away. Now we can actually see the | :29:32. | :29:42. | |
great surge of people moving towards the gates. All of them | :29:42. | :29:46. | |
hoping for the best view, with cameras at the ready for when the | :29:46. | :29:56. | |
:29:56. | :30:04. | ||
Queen appears on the Palace balcony What does that remind us of? If you | :30:04. | :30:11. | |
were watching the concert last night, it was only one act - Grace | :30:11. | :30:17. | |
Jones memorably performing. And yes the skies are grey now. They were | :30:17. | :30:22. | |
blue this morning, but mercifully we are still in pretty dry weather. | :30:22. | :30:29. | |
Let's hope it holds for another half-hour or so. Yes the umbrellas | :30:30. | :30:39. | |
:30:40. | :30:46. | ||
are out. But it doesn't look too heavy at the moment, the rain. | :30:46. | :30:55. | |
I'm going to introduce my next guest, a distinguished guest, Major | :30:55. | :31:00. | |
General Sebastian Roberts. Thank you very much for coming in. Great | :31:00. | :31:05. | |
to see you. Your thoughts on the day? It's been wonderful. I watched | :31:05. | :31:09. | |
yesterday on television and the feeling there was transmitted | :31:09. | :31:15. | |
brilliantly. It is tremendous to be here and to see it as it is. Having | :31:15. | :31:19. | |
usually been the other side of the railings to see the crowd from this | :31:19. | :31:23. | |
side, it's fantastic. I can think of no better way to watch this from | :31:23. | :31:28. | |
here. I want you to unlock a secret for us if you will, because we are | :31:28. | :31:35. | |
going to have what we call a feu de joie, when the Queen appears later | :31:35. | :31:41. | |
on. You were in charge of a feu de joie which we enjoyed in 2006 after | :31:41. | :31:47. | |
the birthday parade, but lot of people will be wondering what it is. | :31:47. | :31:52. | |
What's the expert description? is the historic way, particularly | :31:52. | :32:00. | |
for infantry men, to to fire a volley of shots in screns. Its | :32:01. | :32:08. | |
origins go back -- in sequence. Its other begins go back to the 18th | :32:08. | :32:12. | |
century. This is the only - thsh is only the second way for it to be | :32:12. | :32:22. | |
:32:22. | :32:23. | ||
done for the Queen. It is a way for infantrymen to fire, in respect of | :32:23. | :32:29. | |
sovereigns. It is an infantryman's celebration. Is it tricky to | :32:29. | :32:36. | |
accomplish? It is so rarely done that it has its own trickiness. The | :32:36. | :32:41. | |
garrison major I suspect has lost a bit of sleep about it, but no, | :32:41. | :32:45. | |
remember the guys doing this have used the very same weapons in | :32:45. | :32:52. | |
action in Afghanistan and Iraq. They are in the hands of experts, | :32:52. | :32:56. | |
although they don't always fire them wearing these uniforms. After | :32:56. | :33:00. | |
'06 what was the Queen saying to you about the feu de joie and how | :33:00. | :33:09. | |
it turned out? I think she enjoyed it. There was an almost | :33:09. | :33:15. | |
irresistible front page at the time, but no, it was very well taken that | :33:15. | :33:18. | |
this was an opportunity for particularly her household troops | :33:18. | :33:22. | |
to do something unusual but a personal act of congratulation and | :33:22. | :33:27. | |
gratitude to her. There is lots written about this relationship and | :33:27. | :33:32. | |
the closeness of the relationship between the monarch and her troops. | :33:32. | :33:38. | |
Is that overstated? No. I think it's true that all her troops, that | :33:38. | :33:42. | |
is to say the whole of her Army and armed forces, feel something very | :33:42. | :33:49. | |
special for her The Army it is what we swear the oath of allegiance to | :33:49. | :33:56. | |
her very person. That's what we give our livings for. I think that | :33:56. | :33:59. | |
the Foot Guards and the Household Cavalry, the Household Division in | :33:59. | :34:04. | |
a sense are doing this on behalf of the rest of the Army. And indeed | :34:04. | :34:08. | |
the rest of the armed forces and everybody else. It is a personal | :34:08. | :34:13. | |
contact which we are honoured to have. We only represent others. | :34:13. | :34:19. | |
you are making that point we hear the strains of Rule Brit an ia | :34:19. | :34:28. | |
outside. -- Rule Britannia outside. They are getting ready with some | :34:28. | :34:34. | |
pretty rousing music. Let's listen and enjoy it for a | :34:34. | :34:44. | |
:34:44. | :34:44. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 58 seconds | :34:44. | :35:46. | |
THE BAND PLAYS LAND OF HOPE AND CHEERING | :35:46. | :35:50. | |
Land of Hope and Glory. They enjoyed that. The Union Jacks are | :35:50. | :35:56. | |
out in force and the Union Jack is pretty much everywhere, on hats, | :35:56. | :36:03. | |
items of clothing, on memorabilia and in different shapes and sizes, | :36:03. | :36:09. | |
with tiny kiddie sizes and much bigger ones. "Thanks for the day | :36:09. | :36:15. | |
off" indeed. Thanks for the two days off, given that it is an | :36:15. | :36:19. | |
extended weekend. Not long now before the Queen will appear on the | :36:19. | :36:24. | |
balcony of Buckingham Palace. Probably I reckon in about ten | :36:24. | :36:29. | |
minutes or so before we see the curtains twitching and the doors | :36:29. | :36:33. | |
opening and the Royal Family appearing on the balcony. The great | :36:33. | :36:42. | |
sound of the pipes and drums. The first Battalion Irish Guards | :36:42. | :36:51. | |
working very hard to entertain the crowd this afternoon. | :36:51. | :36:54. | |
As people enjoy the scene outside Buckingham Palace we'll have more | :36:54. | :37:00. | |
special guests for you in just a few minutes. Let's join Sonali. I'm | :37:00. | :37:04. | |
with five-year-old Harry from Brighton and his family. Just look | :37:04. | :37:12. | |
how close we are to bufplt amazing guys. Good efforts. Harry, you want | :37:12. | :37:20. | |
to sing the national anthem live on BBC One. Go for it. God save our | :37:20. | :37:25. | |
gracious Queen, long live our noble Queen, God save our Queen. That's | :37:25. | :37:30. | |
amazing. Brilliant! CHEERING We've also got seven-year-old Ellie | :37:30. | :37:39. | |
from Grimsby. What's been the best part of your day? Watching all the | :37:39. | :37:43. | |
horses. They were brilliant. You must have loved seeing the Queen as | :37:44. | :37:51. | |
well. Yes. Enjoy the rest of your Jubilee weekend, guys. | :37:51. | :37:58. | |
Such an impressive scene and very soon the entire space around the | :37:58. | :38:02. | |
Queen Victoria Memorial will be absolutely packed. The stage which | :38:02. | :38:06. | |
was there last night has been dismantled. The canopy is still in | :38:06. | :38:11. | |
place, which might be handy given that it is starting to spit with a | :38:11. | :38:20. | |
little bit of rain. The entire force of people in The | :38:20. | :38:26. | |
Mall on the move heading towards Buckingham Palace. I did promise | :38:27. | :38:33. | |
you some special guests. So I'm going to keep my word. We have | :38:33. | :38:39. | |
Terry Wogan and Andrew Lloyd Webber with us, and Sir Sebastian is still | :38:39. | :38:43. | |
with us. Temporaryry, some thoughts on this extended weekends. I was | :38:44. | :38:49. | |
privileged to be able to do the coverage for Radio 2 last night of | :38:49. | :38:57. | |
that magnificent concert. From the moment that Robbie Williams came on | :38:57. | :39:05. | |
with Let Me Entertain You, to the pyrotechnics of Paul McCartney at | :39:05. | :39:08. | |
the end. If there is ever to be a better concert, I want to be here | :39:08. | :39:13. | |
to see it. Just watching the crowd coming down from Admiralty Arch, | :39:13. | :39:18. | |
that was the way it was last night. There must be 100,000 people. | :39:18. | :39:25. | |
20,000 people and all the way back to the arch, as it is now. What a | :39:25. | :39:30. | |
sight. And the crowd add enormously to it. The colour, the sounds, the | :39:30. | :39:35. | |
performances, the artists. There'll never be another concert like it. | :39:35. | :39:41. | |
You do agree, Andrew? I do. course he agrees, he was part of | :39:41. | :39:46. | |
it! It was an extraordinary moment. Just before we went on air, I went | :39:46. | :39:51. | |
out with Gareth Malone and we rehearsed the crowd singing the | :39:51. | :39:56. | |
Jubilee song. Down The Mall it was bright sunshine that. Moment. It | :39:56. | :40:02. | |
was extraordinary. The sun hit the houses of Parliament. It was really | :40:02. | :40:06. | |
wonderful. I really enjoyed it. thought it a shame that you didn't | :40:06. | :40:12. | |
come on with a hula hoop. I didn't want to upstage anybody. Of course! | :40:12. | :40:17. | |
The music, your involvement in the music last night was particular. | :40:17. | :40:24. | |
Tell us about it. It it was Jubilee song. Gary Barlow and I had a | :40:24. | :40:27. | |
specific idea - to celebrate the Queen's involvement with the | :40:27. | :40:31. | |
Commonwealth. Of all the things she would like to be remembered for, I | :40:31. | :40:34. | |
think her devotion to the Commonwealth is probably the top | :40:34. | :40:38. | |
one. I think we can reveal this now that it is all over that in fact we | :40:38. | :40:43. | |
played her the song privately before the official unveiling of it, | :40:43. | :40:48. | |
and it was great fun. We had a few of the Military Wives around the | :40:48. | :40:53. | |
piano and Gary and I played it. She's been very generous about it | :40:53. | :40:59. | |
and allowed us to say she is delighted with it. Very nice to be | :40:59. | :41:02. | |
part of that. On the radio coverage we had so many messages and e-mails | :41:02. | :41:06. | |
from all over the world, from various parts of the Commonwealth, | :41:06. | :41:10. | |
from the East Coast of the United States, from Canada, the car been. | :41:10. | :41:15. | |
It is wonderful to have the response from all over the world. | :41:15. | :41:19. | |
Everybody thinking it was absolutely magnificent. A good | :41:19. | :41:23. | |
point, Sebastian. When we were talking to members of the Household | :41:23. | :41:27. | |
Cavalry, that was nice, as it reflected the mix and the richness | :41:27. | :41:30. | |
and the diversity of the Commonwealth, and members of the | :41:30. | :41:37. | |
Household Cavalry today. Indeed. 10% of the British Army are from | :41:37. | :41:42. | |
the Commonwealth or the United Nations. It is important to speak | :41:42. | :41:48. | |
up for the Irish Army. That diversity is one of the things we | :41:48. | :41:52. | |
are celebrating today. And plenty of Welsh people Toon old podium | :41:52. | :41:58. | |
weren't there - Tom, Shirley. did brilliantly. They virtually | :41:58. | :42:05. | |
took over. Where there any Scots? I'm half Scottish. That box has | :42:05. | :42:12. | |
been ticked. Thank heavens for that! This is building up now to | :42:12. | :42:16. | |
what's an important moment in the military preparation for the | :42:16. | :42:21. | |
ceremonial element. What's going on? Are people hoping for the best? | :42:21. | :42:26. | |
I'm sure it is beyond hope but I must say, waiting to give the | :42:26. | :42:32. | |
orders for the feu de joie myself for the Queen's 80th birthday, I | :42:32. | :42:37. | |
was certainly going over the words of command many my mind. I knew | :42:37. | :42:42. | |
there would be others there to take my place if I got it wrong The head | :42:42. | :42:47. | |
of a commander it is a busy time. It is an extraordinary collection | :42:47. | :42:53. | |
of people. I know we are looking at the backs of their heads, but it is | :42:53. | :42:59. | |
eclectic wouldn't you say? All ages. It certainly is. A very broad mix. | :42:59. | :43:05. | |
Half of the people we've been interviewing from been from all | :43:05. | :43:08. | |
around the world, from Australia, the United States. It is | :43:08. | :43:12. | |
interesting to see that some of the smaller countries of the | :43:12. | :43:15. | |
Commonwealth are represented here. Let's see if we can join Chris once | :43:15. | :43:25. | |
We are down by the Buckingham Palace gates just waiting for the | :43:25. | :43:29. | |
arrival of the Royal Family. There are a few dads whose shoulders are | :43:29. | :43:34. | |
aching. Indeed, it's been a wonderful day. It's good to have | :43:34. | :43:37. | |
the children to see the Queen and celebrate 60 years. What's the view | :43:37. | :43:41. | |
like up there? It's really good. Not too tiring sitting on dad's | :43:41. | :43:46. | |
shoulders? No. It's going to be about three, four minutes. A very | :43:46. | :43:51. | |
smart gentleman here in a red suit looking forward to it. Other dads, | :43:51. | :43:57. | |
look at that. And a mum! Is this your little one up here? They're | :43:57. | :44:03. | |
all. Everybody is on the shoulders. I have to find Sonali. We have | :44:03. | :44:11. | |
about three minutes to wait but we are all getting excited. | :44:11. | :44:18. | |
I have to say, now we can see an ocean of umbrellas. Maybe the spits | :44:18. | :44:22. | |
of rain I talked about have rather developed. | :44:22. | :44:27. | |
Nobody minds that. It's nothing like Sunday, Terry, let's just say | :44:27. | :44:33. | |
that. If the sun had been shining for that, it would have been a bit | :44:33. | :44:37. | |
too bling. The whole thing looked like an impressionist painting, the | :44:37. | :44:44. | |
boats going up the river in the mist. It was romantic. There is a | :44:44. | :44:49. | |
question from viewers which I must put to you all, you can all answer | :44:49. | :44:53. | |
this question, which is, I am paraphrasing lots of different | :44:53. | :44:56. | |
questions, what is the Queen like to meet? What kind of personality | :44:56. | :45:03. | |
does she have? How does she respond to humour, does she engage readily | :45:03. | :45:08. | |
in chat? Absolutely, I have been privileged to be in her company on | :45:08. | :45:12. | |
more than one occasion. About a year ago she was foolish enough to | :45:12. | :45:18. | |
invite me to dinner at Windsor Castle, fairly convenient from my | :45:18. | :45:22. | |
house, that's probably why she asked. I had the preuf hrepbl of | :45:22. | :45:25. | |
sitting -- privilege of sitting beside her. I noticed for the main | :45:25. | :45:29. | |
course she had a small carrot, a little piece of broccoli, tiny | :45:29. | :45:36. | |
piece of meat and gravy. I said to her, mam, you are hardly eating | :45:36. | :45:44. | |
anything. She looked at me and she said, can't say the same for you! | :45:44. | :45:49. | |
So that epitomises her, a wonderful sense of humour, she's easy to talk | :45:49. | :45:59. | |
:45:59. | :46:01. | ||
to. An entirely pleasant, I hate. I went to another reception years ago | :46:01. | :46:07. | |
in the 70s, the first time, up the great staircase with half of | :46:07. | :46:17. | |
:46:17. | :46:17. | ||
showbiz, joined the reviewing line and she said flab. I thought what, | :46:17. | :46:23. | |
because I used to do a thing called fat the flab on the radio and I was | :46:23. | :46:28. | |
astonished by this, I bowed and moved quickly along and a voice | :46:28. | :46:32. | |
said don't forget about us, I walked straight past Prince Charles | :46:32. | :46:37. | |
and the Queen Mother. Andrew? A sense of the character of the Queen, | :46:37. | :46:41. | |
what would you say? When we played the song to her first and at the | :46:41. | :46:45. | |
end I said thank you very much for coming around, and all of that. I | :46:45. | :46:49. | |
said, so you are going to have to pretend when Gary and I come around | :46:49. | :46:52. | |
to Windsor Castle to play you the song for the television that you | :46:52. | :46:59. | |
haven't heard it. She just said I am very good at pretending. | :46:59. | :47:05. | |
I thought it was wonderful. Delivered with a broad smile. | :47:05. | :47:09. | |
a great joy of sitting next to her too at Windsor and I remember her | :47:09. | :47:12. | |
talking about a speech she was going to make to the United Nations | :47:12. | :47:16. | |
and the thing that really, really I take from that is that it was | :47:16. | :47:20. | |
coming from the heart and not the head. No advisor was telling her | :47:20. | :47:25. | |
about that. It was just what she felt about tolerance and you | :47:25. | :47:28. | |
thought here is the leader of the Church of England and saying we | :47:28. | :47:31. | |
have to be multicultural and consider other faiths. We are | :47:31. | :47:34. | |
minutes away from the balcony appearance. | :47:34. | :47:38. | |
You were saying there is cover on the balcony. They're not going to | :47:38. | :47:44. | |
get drenched. No, it's under cover. At this stage there are no wet | :47:44. | :47:47. | |
weather programmes, they'll stay out whatever the weather does. | :47:47. | :47:57. | |
at the way they behaved during the river cavalcade. | :47:57. | :48:02. | |
For a lady of her age to stand for so long. | :48:02. | :48:07. | |
The doors have opened and Her Majesty, the Queen leads members of | :48:07. | :48:10. | |
the Royal Family on to that famous balcony at whras and -- at | :48:10. | :48:20. | |
:48:20. | :48:53. | ||
This vast crowd here to celebrate six decades of the Queen's reign. | :48:53. | :48:59. | |
She looks into the distance towards Admiralty Arch. The Duke of | :48:59. | :49:06. | |
Cambridge. The Queen acknowledges the tributes | :49:06. | :49:11. | |
and cheers of the crowd. They wait and look up to the sky | :49:11. | :49:21. | |
:49:21. | :49:33. | ||
wondering if the fly-past is on its The Prince of Wales and the Duchess | :49:33. | :49:37. | |
of Cornwall, the Queen, flanked by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge | :49:37. | :49:42. | |
and Prince Harry. A much smaller group on the balcony than we have | :49:42. | :49:50. | |
seen at past events. There we are, the representation of | :49:50. | :49:55. | |
six decades there and six decades of British history. I know it's | :49:55. | :50:01. | |
been said before, but Prince Charles speech last night I thought | :50:01. | :50:11. | |
:50:11. | :50:38. | ||
was first-class. The crowd here is aware that the | :50:38. | :50:43. | |
planes are on the way and the Queen, who has an expert eye for these | :50:43. | :50:46. | |
things, can spot them in the distance, even though it's pretty | :50:46. | :50:50. | |
cloudy and it's not exactly great visibility. | :50:50. | :51:00. | |
:51:00. | :51:08. | ||
But when it happens it will be a spectacular sight. 18 aircraft, led | :51:08. | :51:18. | |
:51:18. | :51:38. | ||
Straight down the Mall. Flying low over Buckingham Palace. | :51:38. | :51:48. | |
:51:48. | :52:20. | ||
In tribute to the Queen's Diamond The Lancaster is on the way. Four | :52:20. | :52:30. | |
:52:30. | :52:32. | ||
Spitfires, followed by a Hurricane. Flight Lieutenant Roger Nicholls. | :52:32. | :52:42. | |
:52:42. | :52:42. | ||
The Spitfires, squadron leader Ian Smith, wing commander, and flight | :52:42. | :52:52. | |
:52:52. | :53:14. | ||
Lieutenant Parkinson. The and the We are now waiting for the climax, | :53:14. | :53:21. | |
spectacular dynamic, exciting, The Red Arrows. | :53:21. | :53:31. | |
:53:31. | :53:46. | ||
Led by Jim Turner in Red 1. The Hawk T1 Aircraft, streaming red, | :53:46. | :53:51. | |
white and blue over Buckingham Palace. | :53:51. | :53:56. | |
That's the fly-past. They clearly enjoyed it. The Queen | :53:57. | :54:05. | |
certainly did. Lots of shouts of "God Save the | :54:05. | :54:09. | |
Queen" and "more" from the crowd outside Buckingham Palace today. | :54:09. | :54:15. | |
They wait for this special form of rifle salute which was explained to | :54:15. | :54:25. | |
:54:25. | :54:25. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 58 seconds | :54:25. | :56:35. | |
us a while ago, called the feu de The feu de joie has been | :56:35. | :56:44. | |
accomplished. The orders given by Major General George Norton. | :56:44. | :56:48. | |
He could barely be heard because of the cheers of the crowd. Now three | :56:48. | :56:58. | |
:56:58. | :57:01. | ||
cheers for the Queen. Big smile from the Queen Elizabeth | :57:01. | :57:11. | |
:57:11. | :57:49. | ||
II, acknowledging the tributes on Three cheers for Her Majesty the | :57:49. | :57:59. | |
:57:59. | :58:17. | ||
Queen. Hip, hip hooray. Hip, hip, The broadest of smiles from the | :58:17. | :58:21. | |
Queen acknowledging the heartfelt cheer there is the Irish Guards, | :58:21. | :58:24. | |
and still enjoying the scene. Major General Sebastian Roberts looking | :58:24. | :58:30. | |
on with pride. Your thoughts? sure they did it better than we did | :58:30. | :58:35. | |
a few years ago. It is a very fine way to end an extraordinary | :58:35. | :58:45. | |
:58:45. | :59:09. | ||
The Queen leads members of the Royal Family back into Buckingham | :59:09. | :59:18. | |
Palace. And that was the view they had. It's a remarkable sight. The | :59:18. | :59:24. | |
Mall absolutely packed with people. Terry Wogan and Andrew Lloyd Webber | :59:24. | :59:30. | |
are still with me. Terry, that was a fitting climax. It was wonderful | :59:30. | :59:35. | |
to see how Her Majesty responded. First of all I thought she was | :59:35. | :59:41. | |
perhaps a little moved. And then as the planes went over and the feu de | :59:41. | :59:45. | |
joie, she responded to that immediately didn't she. From then | :59:45. | :59:51. | |
on it was smiles all the way. smile said it all didn't it, she | :59:51. | :59:57. | |
was genuinely moved by that. Who couldn't be? It is so well done. I | :59:57. | :00:03. | |
have to say, as a theatreman myself I couldn't get near that. What a | :00:03. | :00:08. | |
compliment. That is a compliment, but it is theatre but it is theatre | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
delivered to perfection. theatre for all of us. These guys | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
are representing all of us in a celebration of the Queen, who is | :00:17. | :00:25. | |
the Queen of all of us. Probably I thought the only person there who | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
has never sung those words. Yes, how many times you do reckon she's | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
heard that, how many Muslims? yet she's never sung it herself, | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
which puts it into perspective. You've all been wonderful guests | :00:39. | :00:46. | |
for us and we are really grateful to you for joining us. Terry Wogan, | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
Major General Sebastian Roberts and Andrew Lloyd Webber. I can't think | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
of better company. Thank you. We are now going to join Chris in The | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
Mall. What's going on, Chris? crowds are making their way home. | :01:00. | :01:07. | |
They've seen the Queen. They have heard the anthems and it's been | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
brilliant. And great to see so many families and different generations, | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
parents, grandparents, and children. We saw a couple from Australia who | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
were at the Coronation in 1953 and they were determined to be back for | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
the Diamond Jubilee. Celebrations are over. Everyone is going off | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
home. I think it is time to sign off. | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
Thank you very much Sonali and Chris. | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
The balcony is empty once again but we can sense that inside they are | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
probably having a good time. Maybe a little cup of tea and celebrating | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
the end of a long and very happy day. A long and happy day hopefully | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
too for our friends in St James's Park. We join Jake and Fearne once | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
again. It's been a pleasure to be part of the Thanksgiving for six | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
wonderful decades of service. I think what stands out for me is a | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
line from the second verse of the national anthem, "On thee our hopes | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
we fission" Definitely. People here have been having a wonderful time. | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
Musically we had so many highlights, and the wonderful concert last | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
night outside Buckingham Palace, to the choir inside St Paul's this | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
morning. It's been a wonderful three days of celebration. Thank | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
you very much from us. And thank you very much indeed and for | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
keeping news a good mood all day. Thanks to Jake and Fearne. We have | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
heard from Sir John Major, and David Cameron. We had more tributes | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
at the end of this day. Your Majesty, congratulations on 60 | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
years of extraordinary service, dedication and commitment to our | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
country. You can be immensely proud of what you and your family have | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
achieved for us and we are immensely proud for you. | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
Majesty the Queen has been such a constant in British life and has | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
done such an amazing job in representing our country. Thanks | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
for the great memories I have will, the experiences of the great horses | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
I have ridden for you. I hope the Diamond Jubilee is the beginning of | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
many years to come. I loo woo like to say from me, Victoria and our | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
whole family and the whole country, congratulations Your Majesty. | :03:22. | :03:29. | |
you for being a very important part of my life over all the years. And | :03:29. | :03:38. | |
for for keeping a cool head in difficult times. What's going on | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
Your Majesty? It is Diversity here. We want to say congratulations on | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
your Diamond Jubilee and thank you so much for giving us the | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
inspiration and the drive to reach the Royal Variety Show and to | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
perform in front of you, as that has changed our lives. We've got a | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
couple of tickets for the tour if you want to come down and watch. | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
Your Majesty, I want to say thank you for all you've done for us, the | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
British people, on a personal note I would like to say please invite | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
me to Buckingham Palace, not just when I've done a really long swim. | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
Invite me round for a cup of tea or something. Thank you mam for being | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
you. And looking after us for all these | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
years. God bless. Some rather special tributes there | :04:26. | :04:35. | |
to end our coverage of the Diamond Jubilee of 2012. | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
Sunday seem as very long time ago in all of that rain but it was very | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
impressive pageants. Yesterday a terrific concert here, which we | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
will all remember for a long time. Today, a moving service at St | :04:49. | :04:53. |