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A warm welcome to Windsor Castle for our day of special coverage of all | :00:08. | :00:19. | |
of the events marking the birthday celebrations for Queen Elizabeth II. | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
She is already the United Kingdom's longest reigning monarch, | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
and today she becomes the first to reach the age of 90. | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
The Queen will greet crowds of well-wishers | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
who are already beginning to gather outside the castle | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
Tributes will also be paid to her in the Commons in around | :00:32. | :00:41. | |
Tributes will also be paid to her in the Commons in around | :00:42. | :01:02. | |
New images taken by the photographer Annie Leibovitz have been released | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
This shows the Queen with her two youngest grandchildren | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
Another shows the Queen sitting in the White Drawing Room | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
in Windsor Castle with her only daughter, the Princess Royal. | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
And the third image shows Her Majesty in the grounds | :01:16. | :01:23. | |
of Windsor Castle, standing alongside her four dogs. | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
Well, as the man who is next in line to the throne, | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
Prince Charles has led the tributes to his mother on her birthday. | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
He released this Shakespearian tribute earlier this morning. | :01:36. | :01:44. | |
Good grows with her. In her days, every man shall eat in safety under | :01:45. | :01:55. | |
his own vine what he plants. And sing the merry songs of peace to all | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
of his neighbours. God shall be truly known and those about her | :02:00. | :02:08. | |
shall read the perfect ways of honour and by those claim there | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
greatness, not by blood. She shall be to the happiness of England, and | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
aged Princess. Many days shall see her and yet no day without a deed to | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
crown it. Joining me now is Charles Anson, | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
who was the Queen's press secretary He knows so much about the Queen and | :02:29. | :02:37. | |
the operation of the Royal household. Lovely to see you again. | :02:38. | :02:46. | |
90 years old. It is a milestone in anyone's life. You know the Queen so | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
well. What are your thoughts about the state? Well, I is a tremendous | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
milestone for anyone to be 90 and of course for celebration for the | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
nation and for the Queen and her family, and I think the remarkable | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
thing is that she has been on the tone for 64 years and 90 still | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
undertaking many, many public engagements, 350 per year or so, and | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
looking in a sense, even younger than when I worked for her 20 years | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
ago, which I find interesting. Yes, and that is something we might talk | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
more about. As you suggest, there are public engagements today. We | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
will see in the Queen out in Windsor in a little while. How much say you | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
think she will have in what she can do on her birthday? I think on this | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
particular day, the Queen will have a lots of say in how she spends it. | :03:43. | :03:50. | |
I think instinct as a person, her sense of privacy, which is strong, | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
she would tend to be inclined to celebrate her birthday rather | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
quietly but there has been such public acclaim for her on her 90th | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
that in a sense that is part of the tremendous success of this now | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
longest reign in the history of the British monarchy that her birthday | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
this time on her 90th will be a nicely balanced blend of public | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
duties around Windsor and also time spent with her family, especially | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
this evening when Prince Charles will host a dinner at which very | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
many members of her family and some close friends will be Protestant -- | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
will be present. And that is it. A private dinner. Will that be | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
absolutely as the Queen whatsit? Will be guest list be exactly who | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
she wants, will she be able to say exactly who she wants to be there? | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
Will it be a period of the few hours where it is very much her own event? | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
I think exactly that. The Prince of Wales is giving the dinner for her, | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
so I think in that sense, the Queen and Prince Charles will have banded | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
together and the Duke of Edinburgh will certainly have had ideas as | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
well and in my experience, a family occasion like that, when I have seen | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
them, have been extremely warm and friendly and very relaxed. This is | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
the thing about our monarchy is that it has this immense formality about | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
it and the British love a pageant, a ceremony of tradition, but equally | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
these days, there is a very informal way in which the Queen and Prince | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
Philip and also the Prince of Wales entertain in the most welcoming way | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
and in a very relaxed way so it will be a very jolly occasion. Because | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
you were working with her for her 70th birthday, I think. So do you | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
still remember what went on and with members of staff, people like | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
yourself be invited to some elements of the day? Actually, her 70th | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
birthday, I remember very little of because it was an entirely private | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
birthday, as I remember. I think her 60th birthday in 1986, there was a | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
service here at the St George Chapel and one or two public appearances, | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
and again at her 80th, and of course now at the 90th, but it has not been | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
every single time and I think this brings me back to my point that | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
instinctively, the Queen celebrates her birthday privately. She has got | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
a great sense of family, always has had a great sense of family, and has | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
been surrounded and gathered round her family on these occasions and | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
occasionally with his public duties alongside. But not the whole day. | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
And you have reflected a number of times about how useful she still | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
looks, her demeanour, in her very appearance, and you have worked for | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
her some time ago and I know you are saying to me yesterday it is | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
extraordinary when you see her now because she doesn't seem to have | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
changed a huge amount. What is behind that, do you think? I think | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
the secret of it, the magic of it, is that the Queen has a very good | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
idea of how she cases herself, so she never feels flustered and if you | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
work for her, she has always come even in the most difficult | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
circumstances. And going about her public duties, she tends to move | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
slowly deliberately so that people can see her so that she just doesn't | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
suddenly rushed past and people feel they have not seen the Queen and I | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
think the pace at which she does her public duties, the time that she | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
spends speaking to people, there is something calm about it, and in that | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
sense, I think that is why she can still carry on so effectively. I | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
think she enjoys her work and I think she has got a very good | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
constitution for it as well. Really, really lovely to talk to you on a | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
very special day. Thank you so much for your time. The Queen's press | :08:03. | :08:10. | |
secretary for much of the 1990s. I mention there are quite considerable | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
crowds here at Windsor Castle. It was very difficult to get into the | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
castle this morning. Many of the road three or four people deep and | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
very difficult to make your way around this part of the area. | :08:24. | :08:24. | |
We can cross over to our Deputy Royal Correspondent Sarah Campbell | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
now, who's among the crowds outside Windsor Castle. | :08:28. | :08:29. | |
Probably in a bit of a crash, but hopefully able to talk to some | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
people. Hello, Jane. Away from the peace and calm of the roof, I am | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
down here we are in the next hour or so the Queen will walk down. If the | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
camera turns around, you can see how deep the crowds are, around five or | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
60, and the Queen will walk in front down the hill from left to rights | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
and so people at the back are not sure they will get a good view but | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
some of them at the back who arrived in little bit earlier have been | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
quite canny. We have Jill and Lucinda. Not only did you manage to | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
get a bench position but look at that hair. Brilliant. We have come | :09:08. | :09:15. | |
from London and she surprised me as we got here on the train by | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
producing the Whigs on and said here you are. You might even catch Her | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
Majesty's I. Why was it important for you to come down? My friend is a | :09:25. | :09:32. | |
huge Loyalist and we have got the flag and we always celebrate so we | :09:33. | :09:40. | |
couldn't miss this one. -- loyalist. -- birdie. -- royalist. I admire | :09:41. | :09:59. | |
her. She is my favourite. And turning nightie, but not any obvious | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
sign of slowing down. She can still get on a horse. Unbelievable. And | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
the way she goes down those steps at the Cenotaph. I am hoping to get a | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
really good glimpse of her. We does wanted to be part of the occasion. | :10:18. | :10:19. | |
We weren't sure about the layout of We weren't sure about the layout of | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
Windsor. I am sure you will get a glimpse. Good luck. Thank you. | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
Virginia, you are originally from the Philippines but you are now | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
pretty much a local. You share a hometown with the Queen. Yet. Why | :10:34. | :10:41. | |
did you decide to come you today? Well, I have not seen her | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
personally, so I would love to see her. We know that the Queen is a | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
global figure. Is she did in the Philippines? Yes, people know her. | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
When you say Queen Elizabeth, you say she is from London, UK. Well, I | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
hope you catch a glimpse of her. Thank you very much indeed. As you | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
can see, the crowds are joining us all the time. At 5am this morning, I | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
saw a view people who had camped out overnight, as you can see, the | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
pavements have filled up. There are people of every nationality all | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
around the world angling to try to get a glimpse of the front. If we | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
tried to fight our way through, let's see if we can find anyone who | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
can talk to us. Hello. We are from the BBC. Why have you come down | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
today? Have you come far? No, just from Bagshot. Is it nice living near | :11:34. | :11:44. | |
the Queen? Definitely. Why not come and join the action? We just got the | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
train. Really excited. I hate to say this, but you are at the back of the | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
crowd and the Queen is not very tall but she does wear hats so you may | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
catch a glimpse. Hopefully. There are lots of children in front so | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
hopefully she will come over to get the flowers and we may catch a | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
glimpse. What do you make of the fact that the Queen has become the | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
first British monarch to beat her 90th birthday? I think it is amazing | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
and fabulous and I really proud to be British. As you can see, the | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
crowd building up all the time and less than an hour to wait and | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
hopefully some of them will catch a glimpse. Jane, back to you. Sarah, | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
many thanks. Not far from here but in a busy area just outside the | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
walls of Windsor Castle. Let's take a look at another of our camera | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
shots. Again, not too far away but gives a sense of the crowds that are | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
building on their way up Castle Hill towards Windsor Castle where we are | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
broadcasting from. It was very busy when I fought my way through to get | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
you this morning and I can see the crowds are grown by quite some | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
degree. All held back because there will be a walkabout later on today. | :12:58. | :13:05. | |
So those right at the fronts have been there since very early this | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
morning and perhaps some of them even overnight to see the Queen on | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
her 90th birthday walkabout. So that just gives you a flavour of the | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
numbers that are out around the town here today and many of them should | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
have a good view a little bit later on and then much later on today as | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
well as part of the commemorations we have the beacon lighting and the | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
Queen will light the first of about 1000 beacons across the country and | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
the Commonwealth to mark her 90th birthday. As you would expect, we | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
will have plenty more from here in Windsor throughout the day. For now, | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
I will hand you back to Anita. Jane, thank you very much. | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
Crowds have gathered at Windsor today as a day of celebration gets | :13:52. | :14:02. | |
under way across the country as the Queen marks 90th birthday. New | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
photographs of Her Majesty and her family had been released, while her | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
son Prince Charles has recorded a special radio tribute. In other | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
for raping a 19-year-old woman- and will now face a retrial. | :14:15. | :14:36. | |
The footballer, Ched Evans, has won an appeal against | :14:37. | :14:38. | |
for raping a 19-year-old woman- and will now face a retrial. | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
The Court of Appeal has overturned the former Sheffield United | :14:43. | :14:44. | |
striker's conviction for raping the woman at a hotel | :14:45. | :14:46. | |
Let's go to our correspondent, Daniel Boettcher, who has | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
been following events at the Court of Appeal. | :14:51. | :14:52. | |
Daniel, just taken through the detail of what was said in court | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
earlier. This judgment follows a hearing in the court before three | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
Court of Appeal judges last month and today that judgment was handed | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
down. The court ruled that the appeal is allowed, so Ched Evans | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
appeal against his conviction is allowed. That means that that | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
conviction is quashed and there is to be a retrial. That judgment was | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
handed down today in courtroom number six year by Lady Justice | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
Hallett. We have concluded that we must allow the appeal. And that it | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
is in the interests of justice to order a retrial. Nothing can be | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
reported that might prejudice the fairness of that retrial. That means | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
the contents of this statement may be reported and broadcast in full, | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
but nothing more about the appeal proceedings may be reported until | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
the retrial is concluded. The identity of the complainant in this | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
case must not be reported. Accordingly, we order the appeal is | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
allowed, we quash the conviction, the applet will be retried on the | :16:09. | :16:18. | |
allegation of rape. -- appellant. Lady Justice Hallett said that Ched | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
Evans had appealed to the criminal review panel on the basis that | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
relevant and inadmissible evidence had come to light that was not | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
available at the trial and that undermine the safety of his | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
conviction. Ched Evans has always denied rape. Before he left the | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
court today, a statement was read out on his behalf by one of his | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
legal team. This is a statement on behalf of Mr Ched Evans. Ched Evans | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
is extremely grateful that the Court of Appeal has ruled that his | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
conviction for rape was unsafe and should be quashed. He wants to thank | :16:51. | :16:58. | |
his lawyers, Ciaran Bonner QC and David Emmanuelle, and Shauna | :16:59. | :17:08. | |
Draycott for their hard work and commitment in relation to the appeal | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
as well as his partner. Their families and friends and all of | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
those members of the public who have offered him support throughout. No | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
further statements will be made as it is acknowledged by Mr Evans the | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
legal process has not reached a final conclusion and there will be | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
further hearings of significance on dates to be fixed in due course. So | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
that conviction has been quashed. There is to be a retrial where and | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
when that retrial will take place has yet to be determined. Anita. OK. | :17:41. | :17:50. | |
Thank you very much. News coming into us. We are hearing that 625 | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
jobs are to be cut at Lloyds bank. That is according to the Unite | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
union. It is cleaning the roles will be relocated to India. A | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
spokesperson for Lloyds says Unite say the move is alarming and that is | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
just all the detail we have on that at the moment, but as we get more | :18:12. | :18:13. | |
information, we shall bring that you. | :18:14. | :18:15. | |
GP practices in England are to receive an extra | :18:16. | :18:17. | |
two and a half billion pounds of funding. | :18:18. | :18:19. | |
The money will pay for 5,000 more GPs and other extra staff, including | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
The NHS says the money will help under-pressure surgeries | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
Here's our health correspondent, Jane Dreaper. | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
England's GP surgeries are under huge pressure. | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
Their share of funding has been cut, patients often struggle | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
to get appointments, and doctors say their workload is unsustainable. | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
This plan aims to help England's surgeries get back on track. | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
Their share of the NHS budget will increase to more than 10% | :18:46. | :18:47. | |
by the end of the decade, with an additional ?2.4 billion per | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
year from extra NHS funding already promised going to GP surgeries. | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
There will be pharmacists and mental-health therapists | :18:55. | :18:55. | |
The ultimate test of this will be, are patients able to see GPs | :18:56. | :19:06. | |
Are we able to expand the number of GPs and nurses and therapists | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
And as we do that, will it also help relieve pressure | :19:11. | :19:24. | |
on A departments and hospitals as fewer people will be needing | :19:25. | :19:26. | |
GP leaders say the plans are highly significant but | :19:27. | :19:35. | |
the situation won't change overnight and they will watch closely to make | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
We now at the House of Commons were the Prime Minister is leading | :19:39. | :19:50. | |
tributes to the Queen on 90th birthday. The First Minister in 1952 | :19:51. | :19:58. | |
for the Queen was Winston Churchill. Like him and all that have followed, | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
I can testify that she is quite simply one of the best audiences in | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
the world. There is no one else in public life that any prior minister | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
can really speak to in total confidence and no other country has | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
a head of state with such wisdom and confidence. There are some that | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
suspect that at times I may have put patients to the test. In the play | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
the audience, the character who portrays me goes on and on about | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
Europe until she falls asleep, but I can guarantee this has never | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
happened. I may not have kept my promise not to bang on about Europe | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
in every forum, but I have not always spoke about it. Her Majesty | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
is starting to take things a little easier. In the last year alone, she | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
has only undertaken 177 public engagements. In the past 90 years, | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
Her Majesty as lived through some extraordinary times in our world, | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
from the Second World War with her parents were nearly killed as bombs | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
dropped on Buckingham Palace, to the Russians with which she bought the | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
material for her wedding dress, from presenting the World Cup to England | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
at Wembley in 1966 to man landing on the moon three years later. From the | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
end of the Cold War to peace in Northern Ireland, throughout it all | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
as the sands of culture shift and the tides of politics ebb and flow, | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
Her Majesty has been steadfast. A rock of strength for our nation, for | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
our Commonwealth, and on many locations, for the whole world. As | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
her grandson Prince William has said time and again, quietly and | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
modestly, the Queen has shown as all that we can confidently embrace the | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
future without compromising the things that are important. As Her | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
Majesty said in her first televised Christmas broadcast of 1957, it is | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
necessary to hold fast to it ideals and fundamental principles in this | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
requires and a quarter words, a special kind of courage wakes makes | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
a stand up for everything we know is right, everything that is true and | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
honest. In this modern Elizabethan era, Her Majesty has led a gentle | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
evolution of our monarchy. On that first televised Christmas Day | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
message over three decades before cameras were allowed into this | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
house, to the opening up of the royal palaces, the invention of the | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
royal walkabout, she has brought the monarchy closer to the people while | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
also retaining its dignity. Her role as supreme Governor of the Church of | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
England has also been incredibly important to her. She has often said | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
that her life is inspired not only by her love of this great country | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
but also by her faith in God. As she said, I know that the only way to | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
live my life is to try to do what is right, to take the long view, to | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
give of my best in all of the day brings and to put my trust in God. | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
And in standing up Christianity, she has been clear that the Church of | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
England has a duty to protect the free practice of all faiths our | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
country. Mr Speaker, Her Majesty always performs her constitutional | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
duty as head of state impeccably. But as head of our nation, she has | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
held in even higher regard for the way she represents the United | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
Kingdom. It has rightly been said by some consider shall experts that Her | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
Majesty The Queen is the only person born in the UK who is neither | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
English, Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish. She is all and none of these | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
things and can represent all the nations of the UK on an equal basis | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
in a way that no president ever could. She is also constantly | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
represented the nation to itself when abroad. Foreign leaders, from | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
President Truman to Nelson Mandela and Ronald Reagan have all testified | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
to work extraordinary ability both to represent this country and | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
understand the world. On a hugely important and healing state visit to | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
Ireland in 2011, Her Majesty began her remarks in Irish and spoke about | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
the history of the troubled relationship between the UK and | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
Ireland. She did so with a kindness as well as an authority that went | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
far beyond anything that would be possible for an elected politician. | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
As a diplomat and ambassador for the UK, she has represented our country | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
on 266 official visits to 116 different countries, and as I saw | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
again at the Commonwealth heads of Government meeting in Malta last | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
year, she has made an extraordinary contribution to the future of our | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
Commonwealth, growing it from eight members in 1952 to 53 today. In | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
doing so, she has helped to build a unique family of nations that spans | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
every continent on all the main religions, a quarter of the members | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
of the United Nations, and nearly one third of the world's population. | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
The reach of Her Majesty's diplomacy is without parallel. So much so that | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
as the result of a visit to Balmoral, she concluded to be the | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
woman ever to have driven the King of Saudi Arabia around in a car. I | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
have that story sourced from both of the participants. Through it all, | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
Her Majesty has carried herself with the most extraordinary grace and | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
humility. When people meet the Queen, they talk about it for the | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
rest of their lives. She understands that and she shows a genuine | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
interest in all she meets. They can really see that she cares. As the | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
constitutional historian Vernon Bogdan has said, Her Majesty | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
understands what might be called the soul of the British people. Mr | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
Speaker, Her Majesty has done so much through her like that when it | :25:30. | :25:31. | |
comes to her 90th birthday, there cannot be much that is new 30 try, | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
but I am pleased to hear that she will be sampling the orange drizzled | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
birthday cake baked by the winner of the great British baked of Nokia | :25:41. | :25:43. | |
Hussein, and as she liked the first in a chain of 1000 beacons, she will | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
be joined by the members of her family, including her son the Prince | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
of Wales and her husband the Duke of Edinburgh who has stood by her side | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
throughout her extraordinary reign. They both served this country with | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
an unshakeable sense of duty and their work, including the Duke of | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
Edinburgh's award scheme and The Prince's Trust, has inspired | :26:04. | :26:06. | |
millions of people around the world. As we see those delightful birthday | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
portraits released this week, family has always been at the heart of Her | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
Majesty's long life. Mr Speaker, we are uniquely blessed in our country. | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
Her Majesty's service is extraordinary and it is a joyful | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
result is elevate and to cherish and honour. In June, the whole country | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
will share in the special milestone and a Service of Thanksgiving at | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
Saint Pauls's Cathedral and a wonderful street party, but today, I | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
know the whole house and the whole country will want to join with me in | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
wishing Her Majesty The Queen health, happiness and above all a | :26:39. | :26:53. | |
very special 90th birthday. Order. I call the Leader of the Opposition, | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
Mr Jeremy Corbyn. Thank you, Mr Speaker. It is a pleasure to second | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
the humble address. Many people across the country debate will be | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
wishing Her Majesty a very happy 90th birthday and these messages | :27:09. | :27:10. | |
sent our warmest greetings to add to that. May I say, Mr Speaker, as a | :27:11. | :27:17. | |
relatively young Speaker, I am fully in favour of our country having | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
leaders of a fine vintage. Today, we are talking about a highly respected | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
individuals who is 90 and whatever differing views people across this | :27:31. | :27:33. | |
country have about the institution, the vast majority share an opinion | :27:34. | :27:41. | |
that Her Majesty has served this country and has overwhelming support | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
with a clear sense of public service and public duty. As the Prime | :27:46. | :27:48. | |
Minister just indicated. She has carried out their duty with the | :27:49. | :27:51. | |
enormous warmth. My dear friend Mildred Gordon, the former member | :27:52. | :27:58. | |
who recently died aged 92 and two 's funeral is tomorrow, met the Queen | :27:59. | :28:04. | |
at the opening of a railway. The Queen asked Mildred how she was | :28:05. | :28:08. | |
getting on as a newly elected MP, and Mildred replied with the | :28:09. | :28:11. | |
devastating honesty she replied to everything. She said she thought she | :28:12. | :28:14. | |
had very little power to help her constituents. So the Queen took on | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
one side and with her customary wit said once they find out you lot | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
can't help them, they all right to me. But Her Majesty was born less | :28:24. | :28:35. | |
than a month before the General strike. The first daughter who would | :28:36. | :28:38. | |
later and unexpectedly become heir to the throne was born two years, as | :28:39. | :28:44. | |
the Prime Minister pointed out, before all women in Britain got the | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
vote. Her childhood was during the mass poverty of the 1930s. Her | :28:50. | :28:53. | |
teenage years through the brutal carnage of the Second World War, and | :28:54. | :28:58. | |
at work's end, she experienced first-hand the joy of people as she | :28:59. | :29:03. | |
walked through the streets of London, a very moving history that I | :29:04. | :29:08. | |
am very pleased was replayed on Radio 4 this morning. | :29:09. | :29:14. | |
She became Queen at just 25 years old, following the death of her | :29:15. | :29:21. | |
father. She has reigned for nearly 64 years, the longest reigning | :29:22. | :29:27. | |
monarch in our history. In that time, our country has become a | :29:28. | :29:30. | |
better and more civilised place. We've enacted equality legislation. | :29:31. | :29:36. | |
We've ended colonialism and created the National Health Service, the | :29:37. | :29:39. | |
welfare state and the open University. As head of the | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
Commonwealth, she has been a defender of this incredible | :29:45. | :29:46. | |
multicultural global institution for which we are all very grateful the | :29:47. | :29:52. | |
way she has stood up for the Commonwealth and visited I think | :29:53. | :29:54. | |
every country within the Commonwealth. The Prime Minister was | :29:55. | :29:59. | |
quite right to draw attention to her historic visit to Ireland in 2011 | :30:00. | :30:03. | |
and the way she spoke in the Irish language at the reception held for | :30:04. | :30:07. | |
her in Dublin during a visit. Today, I'm welcoming two more people from | :30:08. | :30:16. | |
my constituency to Parliament. Both have a link with the celebration we | :30:17. | :30:21. | |
are conducting today. Iris Monaghan and George Durack. Iris was born in | :30:22. | :30:25. | |
what was now a Republic of Ireland, but was then part of Britain. She | :30:26. | :30:31. | |
came to London in 1951, before the coronation, and was a civil servant | :30:32. | :30:35. | |
in the Inland Revenue. She has helped collect taxes ever since | :30:36. | :30:39. | |
1951, which has helped to keep us all in the state to which we are | :30:40. | :30:43. | |
accustomed. George fought in the Second World War, serving in the 1st | :30:44. | :30:51. | |
Battalion in the rifle Brigade. He was that daily close affinity with | :30:52. | :30:54. | |
Her Majesty throughout his working life because he worked for the Royal | :30:55. | :30:59. | |
Mail delivering Her Majesty's head through letter boxes all over North | :31:00. | :31:02. | |
London. Yesterday, I was present at a graduation of a 91-year-old | :31:03. | :31:08. | |
constituent who just completed her third degree, a Masters, at Birkbeck | :31:09. | :31:13. | |
College. It proves you're never too late to take up a new career and | :31:14. | :31:21. | |
learn something else. It is their generation, the Queen's generation | :31:22. | :31:26. | |
and my parents', but defeated the horrors of fascism in Europe. But | :31:27. | :31:30. | |
endured the provisions of the post-war era and built a more | :31:31. | :31:34. | |
civilised and equal Britain. We have much to be grateful for to that | :31:35. | :31:39. | |
generation. On her coronation in 1953, Her Majesty was driven through | :31:40. | :31:46. | |
the street in my borough. A crowning achievement in Islington was to some | :31:47. | :31:52. | |
years later. You'll enjoy this. In 20 06 that a growing 2006 she was | :31:53. | :31:56. | |
due to enter a new stadium in my constituency but had to pull out due | :31:57. | :32:00. | |
to an injury. Unfortunately, this is a state that has affected to many of | :32:01. | :32:04. | |
Arsenal squad in subsequent years. We must congratulate her on her | :32:05. | :32:12. | |
prescient. My honourable friend was the new leader for Islington | :32:13. | :32:16. | |
council. As the Queen could not attend the opening, they were | :32:17. | :32:20. | |
invited to Buckingham Palace and she accompanied the whole squad to | :32:21. | :32:23. | |
Buckingham Palace to meet the Queen. We know the Queen is above politics. | :32:24. | :32:28. | |
She may be above football, too, but many locals harbour this quiet the | :32:29. | :32:34. | |
grid view that she's actually privately an Arsenal fan. -- secret | :32:35. | :32:41. | |
view. In her reign, she's seen off 12 prime ministers. Whilst recently | :32:42. | :32:52. | |
I attended my first state dinner, she's received over 100 state visits | :32:53. | :32:58. | |
and visited well over 100 countries on our behalf. I admire her energy, | :32:59. | :33:06. | |
wish her well in her continuing and outstanding commitment to public | :33:07. | :33:10. | |
life. I wish her a very happy 90th birthday. | :33:11. | :33:16. | |
The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, saying whatever people'sdiffering | :33:17. | :33:22. | |
views on the institution of the monarchy, he praised the Queen's | :33:23. | :33:27. | |
public service and her duty. Before him, the Prime Minister leading | :33:28. | :33:31. | |
tributes to the Queen in the Commons on her 90th birthday, saying the | :33:32. | :33:35. | |
Queen had led a gentle evolution of our monarchy, bringing the monarchy | :33:36. | :33:39. | |
closer to the people who are also maintaining its dignity. -- while | :33:40. | :33:44. | |
also maintaining. He referred to the institution of the Royal walkabout. | :33:45. | :33:48. | |
One of those will be happening very soon in Windsor and we will be back | :33:49. | :33:52. | |
in Windsor very shortly. First, let's return to the House of | :33:53. | :33:54. | |
Commons. It has indeed been a life of | :33:55. | :34:06. | |
devotion, of fortitude, of good judgment, of selfless duty, great | :34:07. | :34:11. | |
good humour and uncomplaining hard work. And in all this, she has been | :34:12. | :34:17. | |
supported by a loving family and blessed with a very happy marriage | :34:18. | :34:22. | |
to a remarkable console who has done so much for her and for our country. | :34:23. | :34:29. | |
-- to a remarkable man. The Queen was crowned in the same church as | :34:30. | :34:37. | |
was William the Conqueror. At the age of 26, the same age as the first | :34:38. | :34:44. | |
Queen Elizabeth 400 years earlier. And she embodies all the best | :34:45. | :34:51. | |
qualities. Those that most important to our country. Lend such dissension | :34:52. | :34:56. | |
to our nation. The Queen brings to our national life and experience and | :34:57. | :35:01. | |
knowledge of government and events, and of men and women all over the | :35:02. | :35:06. | |
world, which is truly unrivalled by any other person in the land. And | :35:07. | :35:12. | |
throughout her long reign she has displayed judgment of the first | :35:13. | :35:17. | |
order. Great tolerance and absolute neutrality at all times. Mr Speaker, | :35:18. | :35:25. | |
when she ascended to the throne, her first Prime Minister, Winston | :35:26. | :35:30. | |
Churchill, was of an age to have charged with the 21st Lancers in 19 | :35:31. | :35:40. | |
88 -- 1898. Her present Prime Minister was not even born in 1952. | :35:41. | :35:47. | |
Such is the scale and Brett of the life that she has so triumphantly | :35:48. | :35:53. | |
lived through. -- scale and Brett. Through these extraordinary 90 | :35:54. | :35:58. | |
years, some of the most tumultuous social, economic and technological | :35:59. | :36:02. | |
change that Britain has ever seen. She is provided a very firm hand | :36:03. | :36:10. | |
will stop -- firm hand. The Queen is a source of powerful influence for | :36:11. | :36:14. | |
this country. Throughout the world, she is the Queen of 16 countries. | :36:15. | :36:21. | |
Including Canada, Australia and New Zealand. And the head of the | :36:22. | :36:25. | |
Commonwealth, a greatly undervalued organisation that includes more than | :36:26. | :36:29. | |
one quarter of the world's population. She thus brings a vital | :36:30. | :36:33. | |
and often unrecognised addition to our efforts and our influence | :36:34. | :36:38. | |
overseas. I think that we in this house should, in particular, play | :36:39. | :36:44. | |
great tribute to the work she has done in that remarkable organisation | :36:45. | :36:51. | |
since 1949. Every country needs someone who can represent the whole | :36:52. | :36:58. | |
nation. It may seem committed, and indeed it is. -- may seem primitive. | :36:59. | :37:04. | |
If nationhood is to mean anything, it has to have a focus. In our case, | :37:05. | :37:09. | |
for many years, that focus has been and remains the Queen. Nations do | :37:10. | :37:13. | |
have values and they should be proud of them. And be willing to express | :37:14. | :37:19. | |
that pride. And that is what we are able to do with our monarchy and | :37:20. | :37:25. | |
with our Queen. Mr Speaker, it is my firmly held belief that of the Queen | :37:26. | :37:33. | |
is the single most important respected, admired and loved public | :37:34. | :37:37. | |
figure in the world today. And I will, if I may, conclude with a | :37:38. | :37:42. | |
vignette which I have told here before, but it has repeat. On the | :37:43. | :37:50. | |
night of the 4th of April 1955, on the eve of his resignation as Prime | :37:51. | :37:55. | |
Minister, Churchill gave a dinner at Number 10 in honour of the Queen. It | :37:56. | :38:01. | |
was agreed between the private offices that there would be no | :38:02. | :38:11. | |
speeches. But the Queen greatly moved by the impending retirement of | :38:12. | :38:14. | |
her first Prime Minister, who she had known since she was a very small | :38:15. | :38:20. | |
child, rose in her place and lifted her glass with a toast "To my Prime | :38:21. | :38:30. | |
Minister." And Churchill, a very old man, in a full dress evening | :38:31. | :38:38. | |
uniform, completely unprepared, pulled himself to his feet. And this | :38:39. | :38:43. | |
is what he said to be Queen. He said, madam, I propose a toast to | :38:44. | :38:53. | |
your Majesty. I used to drink as an officer in Bangalore in India in the | :38:54. | :38:59. | |
reign of your Majesty's great, great grandmother, Queen Victoria. And I | :39:00. | :39:09. | |
joined to the wise and kindly way of life at which your Majesty is beyond | :39:10. | :39:13. | |
and gleaming champion. For 90 years of her life, and 64 years of her | :39:14. | :39:19. | |
reign, she has always been the same. God Save The Queen. It's an honour | :39:20. | :39:30. | |
to co-sponsor today's motion with the Prime Minister, the Leader of | :39:31. | :39:34. | |
the Opposition, and follow one of the gentleman who just spoke. I'd | :39:35. | :39:38. | |
like to take the opportunity to put on record the appreciation of people | :39:39. | :39:43. | |
in Scotland, who had a lifetime connection with. While she's managed | :39:44. | :39:51. | |
to serve as head of state for a remarkable 32 independent countries | :39:52. | :39:55. | |
during her unprecedented and successful reign, her association | :39:56. | :40:02. | |
with Scotland is enduring and it is special. Just last year, the Queen | :40:03. | :40:06. | |
and the Duke of Edinburgh marked the day she became the UK's longest | :40:07. | :40:10. | |
reigning monarch with a steam train ride from Edinburgh to the opening | :40:11. | :40:17. | |
of the new Borders railway. When she was born, she was delivered by a | :40:18. | :40:21. | |
Scottish nurse. Since then, she's been making regular visits north of | :40:22. | :40:26. | |
the border. Her youngest days were spent in Angus, where her mother and | :40:27. | :40:31. | |
grandparents were from. Much of her childhood was spent at Balmoral. | :40:32. | :40:35. | |
Part of her honeymoon was at nearby Burn Hall. One of her first official | :40:36. | :40:41. | |
tasks on becoming Queen after the death of her father, King George VI, | :40:42. | :40:47. | |
was to try and -- was to plant a cherry tree in Edinburgh and | :40:48. | :40:52. | |
Holyrood house. After her coronation, crowds lined the streets | :40:53. | :40:59. | |
as she received the honours of Scotland. Notwithstanding cons: is | :41:00. | :41:08. | |
by some -- concerns by some in the -- about how the Queen Elizabeth -- | :41:09. | :41:20. | |
a solution -- there is a Scottish Crown north of the border, rather | :41:21. | :41:25. | |
than the royal cipher. Throughout the decades of her reign, she had | :41:26. | :41:28. | |
been a regular visitor across Scotland. For me, the most | :41:29. | :41:32. | |
remarkable events have been in recent years, including the 1999 | :41:33. | :41:36. | |
reopening of the Scottish Parliament after a recess of nearly 300 years. | :41:37. | :41:44. | |
Who can forget the entire chamber? All MSPs, of all parties, the public | :41:45. | :41:49. | |
gallery, Her Majesty and the Duke of Edinburgh, all singing a song by | :41:50. | :41:56. | |
Robert Burns. As head of the Commonwealth, she attended the | :41:57. | :42:01. | |
Glasgow to 14 opening ceremony. Always good at keeping up with the | :42:02. | :42:05. | |
times, Her Majesty went viral on twitter following a trip to the | :42:06. | :42:11. | |
Glasgow National hockey centre after appearing to photo bomb a selfie by | :42:12. | :42:15. | |
an Australian player, by smiling in the background. While her official | :42:16. | :42:20. | |
visits and functions in Scotland are well received, there an appreciation | :42:21. | :42:27. | |
that it is, at Balmoral, but she likes to be most. Queen Victoria | :42:28. | :42:32. | |
described Balmoral as her heaven on earth. The current Queen is said to | :42:33. | :42:35. | |
never be happier when spending her summer rate and the north-east | :42:36. | :42:39. | |
estate, a private home handed down through generations. The usual | :42:40. | :42:46. | |
two-month stay in August and September traditionally includes a | :42:47. | :42:49. | |
visit to the nearby Braemar gathering where the Queen is a | :42:50. | :42:52. | |
chieftain of the Highland games event. Her Majesty has also hired a | :42:53. | :43:00. | |
love of the Hebrides and cruising around the islands and coastline. -- | :43:01. | :43:07. | |
also had. One particular story I recall is from 2006 webby loyal -- | :43:08. | :43:14. | |
where the royal party wanted to see the famous gardens. However, no | :43:15. | :43:21. | |
advance arrangements had been made. Princess and apparently cycled to | :43:22. | :43:24. | |
the local newsagents to see if there was a way that her mother could be | :43:25. | :43:29. | |
transported around. It duly happened in the people carrier of the | :43:30. | :43:34. | |
newsagent, by the newsagent. That must have been a sight to behold. | :43:35. | :43:38. | |
The Rye Legion of stories of tourists and visitors encountering a | :43:39. | :43:44. | |
lady bearing a striking resemblance to Her Majesty walking her dogs | :43:45. | :43:49. | |
alone on Arthur 's seat in Edinburgh, or offering them a lift | :43:50. | :43:53. | |
as she drove her Land Rover on Royal Deeside. I'm sure my colleague may | :43:54. | :44:03. | |
have more of these kind of stories to recount. Her Majesty's | :44:04. | :44:07. | |
connections to Balmoral and the north-east of Scotland are abiding. | :44:08. | :44:12. | |
She is a reader of the Aberdeen press and Journal, and we learnt in | :44:13. | :44:14. | |
recent studies from our interview with her cousin but she is an | :44:15. | :44:20. | |
accomplished speaker, no mean feat. Queen's connections with the North | :44:21. | :44:24. | |
of Scotland are also highly prized by leading small and large companies | :44:25. | :44:32. | |
and businesses. In total, there are more than 80 Scottish companies | :44:33. | :44:36. | |
holding royal warrants and no doubt many others would like to be warm | :44:37. | :44:41. | |
and holders as well. Mr Speaker, a 90th birthday is a remarkable | :44:42. | :44:45. | |
milestone for all to reach it. But particularly for our head of state. | :44:46. | :44:52. | |
We wish her, the Duke of Edinburgh, and all of her family well, and look | :44:53. | :44:56. | |
forward to many further years of outstanding public service. Thank | :44:57. | :45:04. | |
you for calling me on what I think is a momentous day... | :45:05. | :45:11. | |
Angus Robertson, the leader of the SNP group at Westminster, focusing | :45:12. | :45:14. | |
on the Queen's abiding links with Scotland, particularly Balmoral. | :45:15. | :45:21. | |
Just before him, the grandson of Sir Winston Churchill praising the | :45:22. | :45:26. | |
Queen's duty, praising her as always having a very firm hand on the | :45:27. | :45:30. | |
tiller. Earlier, the Prime Minister was leading this tribute to the | :45:31. | :45:34. | |
Queen in the Commons, mentioning the institution of the Royal walkabout. | :45:35. | :45:39. | |
There will be one of those very soon at Windsor. My colleague is there | :45:40. | :45:40. | |
now. Thank you, the sun is just coming | :45:41. | :45:49. | |
out now. One hopes it will persist for the duration of the walkabout. | :45:50. | :45:54. | |
Certainly we have been looking over the wall here at Windsor Castle. It | :45:55. | :46:00. | |
is interestingly open for anyone with a ticket. Lots of people are | :46:01. | :46:07. | |
inside hoping to see the Queen. Some have been for a very long time in | :46:08. | :46:11. | |
the hope of seeing the Queen on her birthday. Let's see whether we can | :46:12. | :46:15. | |
push our way out into the crowd again. | :46:16. | :46:18. | |
We can cross over to our Deputy Royal Correspondent, | :46:19. | :46:21. | |
Sarah Campbell, who's among the crowds outside Windsor Castle. | :46:22. | :46:27. | |
Don't ask me to move because I can't! We are all wedged in now. The | :46:28. | :46:34. | |
crowd is ten deep, something like that. If you are standing here, | :46:35. | :46:39. | |
you're not going to get much of a view of the Queen, unless you | :46:40. | :46:42. | |
arrived here early enough to get this but on the bench. I think this | :46:43. | :46:48. | |
might be one of the Queen's youngest fans, she is a six-month-old and has | :46:49. | :46:51. | |
perfected the royal wave. You have come from where? Shropshire. Why did | :46:52. | :47:00. | |
you feel it was important to come down today? I just love the Queen. I | :47:01. | :47:04. | |
really wanted to see her on her 90th birthday. Matt, this is something | :47:05. | :47:09. | |
you can tell your daughter about in future years. Absolutely. We will | :47:10. | :47:13. | |
get lots of photographs when she older. What is the great attraction? | :47:14. | :47:19. | |
You are here now, you will probably get the tiniest glands of the top of | :47:20. | :47:25. | |
her hat. It's just to see her in the flesh. I am so proud to be English | :47:26. | :47:29. | |
and to be here to see her on her birthday. It is absolutely | :47:30. | :47:34. | |
fantastic. She was giving perfect waves earlier and now Evelyn has | :47:35. | :47:39. | |
joined the flag. Well, well done. Let's move down. You are more local. | :47:40. | :47:44. | |
That is quite interesting because the Queen thinks of Windsor as her | :47:45. | :47:47. | |
home. She is part of the community here. We've always loved being here | :47:48. | :47:53. | |
and occasionally getting a glimpse of the Queen in the park or | :47:54. | :47:57. | |
something like that. It's just a real privilege to be part of the | :47:58. | :48:01. | |
local community where she lives. Is she is somebody who you feel you | :48:02. | :48:06. | |
have grown up with a little? Yes, because I can remember at junior | :48:07. | :48:09. | |
school we would be given the afternoon off if she was going to | :48:10. | :48:12. | |
change into the open carriages for while ascot and things like that. | :48:13. | :48:17. | |
Going out in Windsor great Park, if you chat to any local they will have | :48:18. | :48:23. | |
seen her. Yes, lots of people when walking their dogs would see her. | :48:24. | :48:27. | |
Occasionally to glimpse the royal family riding through the park as | :48:28. | :48:33. | |
well. Have you seen any evidence, I mean she is 90 today, any evidence | :48:34. | :48:39. | |
of her slowing down? Not really. I think she is absolutely incredible, | :48:40. | :48:43. | |
how she manages to keep going. Are you proud to share a hometown with | :48:44. | :48:48. | |
the Queen? Definitely. She is such a wonderful example to us and the | :48:49. | :48:51. | |
whole world as to how you can keep going and the values that she sends | :48:52. | :48:55. | |
out through the whole world. I think it's absolutely wonderful. You have | :48:56. | :48:59. | |
ten minutes to read. Will you be shouting and singing? Probably | :49:00. | :49:06. | |
watching and enjoying the occasion. How will Evelyn enjoy the occasion? | :49:07. | :49:13. | |
She's dropped the flagpole. There might be lots of shouting later on. | :49:14. | :49:17. | |
I hope she will remember it. A lovely day. Thank you for talking to | :49:18. | :49:22. | |
us. We should end on shots of Evelyn, much more interesting than | :49:23. | :49:28. | |
me. Can you see through that? That is from the production of Warhorse. | :49:29. | :49:37. | |
. Lots of different events. The marching band in the background. A | :49:38. | :49:42. | |
real palpable air of excitement. People have come from all over the | :49:43. | :49:47. | |
world to come and share the Queen's 90th birthday. There is a lot of | :49:48. | :49:50. | |
excitement and I hope that for some of these people they will get a | :49:51. | :49:56. | |
glimpse as she walked past. There many, many thanks. You're definitely | :49:57. | :50:03. | |
stuck in the crowd. We may have more from Sarah later on. Earlier in the | :50:04. | :50:07. | |
day, we were hearing from people who have been there since very early | :50:08. | :50:11. | |
this morning. Some camped overnight. We have some good shots, but was | :50:12. | :50:19. | |
Joey, the main models from warhorse. We have been watching Joey paraded | :50:20. | :50:24. | |
around the foot of the wall beneath us here at Windsor Castle. Something | :50:25. | :50:30. | |
else to entertain the crowds. We expect to see the Queen and the Duke | :50:31. | :50:33. | |
of Edinburgh in the next little while. First of the Queen's two | :50:34. | :50:39. | |
public outings today on her 90th birthday. Following all of the | :50:40. | :50:44. | |
commemorations with me here throughout the day is Charles Anson, | :50:45. | :50:51. | |
the Queen's press secretary from 1990 to 1997. We have been watching | :50:52. | :50:57. | |
the crowds growing over the morning. I expect you're not surprised by | :50:58. | :51:04. | |
that? No, I'm not. There's always a small group of the crowds. Stay | :51:05. | :51:11. | |
overnight. And some are reasonably elderly, it's not just young people. | :51:12. | :51:18. | |
People join the crowd as the day wears on. There is a palpable air of | :51:19. | :51:25. | |
excitement. A lovely day at Windsor. Yes, and you've known the Queen for | :51:26. | :51:29. | |
a long time. You worked with the Royal household for a very long | :51:30. | :51:33. | |
time. Again, just reflect for us on the balance of the day for the | :51:34. | :51:40. | |
Queen. 90 is a milestone for anyone. Anyone would have their own ideas | :51:41. | :51:43. | |
about how they might like to mark that big day. Take us through the | :51:44. | :51:49. | |
balance that is to be struck there between the private and the public. | :51:50. | :51:53. | |
I think there's an air of celebration around the Queen's | :51:54. | :51:59. | |
ruled, partly that she's been on the thrown for 64 years, and partly that | :52:00. | :52:06. | |
she is now 90 years old. For anyone in any time, 90 years is a great | :52:07. | :52:13. | |
milestone. This huge public interest, not only in this country, | :52:14. | :52:18. | |
but through the Commonwealth, and in lots of countries that don't have | :52:19. | :52:23. | |
monarchies at all. In recognition of this, the Queen wanted to have a | :52:24. | :52:26. | |
birthday which combines some public duty with private time with her | :52:27. | :52:33. | |
family. I think it's typical of the Queen that she's chosen to do simple | :52:34. | :52:40. | |
things in this town which she spends so much time in, Windsor. A | :52:41. | :52:46. | |
walkabout and then the lighting of the Beacons this evening, and then | :52:47. | :52:52. | |
some private time with her family. I think a good balance between public | :52:53. | :52:57. | |
duty and private pleasure, which is really the nature of the monarchy. | :52:58. | :53:02. | |
Yes. I hope we can talk more about this in just a moment. Let's take a | :53:03. | :53:07. | |
look at a montage we have put together of some memorable moments | :53:08. | :53:10. | |
of a very, very long rain so far. Annie Park in British political life | :53:11. | :53:27. | |
came to an end when the Queen receives the resignation of Sir | :53:28. | :53:33. | |
Winston Churchill. -- and Epoque. For the last time, he entertained | :53:34. | :53:38. | |
Her Majesty at Number 10 Downing St. These are the first pictures in | :53:39. | :53:41. | |
colour taken of the infant prince. Even black and white films would be | :53:42. | :53:47. | |
heart-warming. But how much colour adds to the beauty and realism. As | :53:48. | :53:51. | |
we watch the pictures, we almost seem to be at Balmoral ourselves. To | :53:52. | :53:57. | |
be here as winners as the FA Cup has often been described as the summit | :53:58. | :54:01. | |
of a footballer's ambition. How much greater is the triumph they enjoy | :54:02. | :54:07. | |
now. It was appropriate that the Queen's | :54:08. | :54:12. | |
day should begin here, where there are so many royal connections. The | :54:13. | :54:17. | |
Duke of Edinburgh and Prince of Wales studied at the Royal Naval | :54:18. | :54:20. | |
College. 1992 is not a year on which I shall | :54:21. | :54:32. | |
look back with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more | :54:33. | :54:36. | |
sympathetic correspondents, it has turned out to be a annus | :54:37. | :54:40. | |
horribilius. At Buckingham Palace, which has | :54:41. | :54:43. | |
become a shrine, the Queen led other members of the Royal family to pay | :54:44. | :54:47. | |
their respects at the side of the road, just like thousands of hers | :54:48. | :54:51. | |
objects were doing. This afternoon, the President and | :54:52. | :54:56. | |
his wife Michelle dropped in for tea and a chat at the palace with Her | :54:57. | :55:00. | |
Majesty and Prince Philip, who wondered whether it was their jet | :55:01. | :55:03. | |
lag which meant it was hard to stay awake. | :55:04. | :55:22. | |
Today, the Thames provided the setting for this tribute to the | :55:23. | :55:30. | |
nation's monarch. The Queen has seen many spectacular sights in the 60 | :55:31. | :55:34. | |
years of her reign, but never anything quite such as this on the | :55:35. | :55:38. | |
Thames. I will continue to treasure and draw | :55:39. | :55:42. | |
inspiration from the countless kindnesses shown to me in this | :55:43. | :55:45. | |
country and throughout the Commonwealth. Thank you, all. | :55:46. | :55:52. | |
Well, what else does a birthday involved at any age? Cake. The Queen | :55:53. | :56:00. | |
is going to be presented with a birthday cake made by the winner of | :56:01. | :56:09. | |
the Bake Off. Nadya has been talking about that task today. | :56:10. | :56:14. | |
It is not long now until we do see the actual cake. We know that Nadya | :56:15. | :56:19. | |
got his safe. Has the cake got here safely? | :56:20. | :56:23. | |
I got here and be cake got here. It got here in three pieces and is now | :56:24. | :56:26. | |
one. So it is three tiers? | :56:27. | :56:32. | |
Yes, I have just constructive and it is now one whole cake. Hopefully it | :56:33. | :56:36. | |
stays that way. How are you feeling now? | :56:37. | :56:41. | |
I'm actually OK. I was really nervous. I know winning flavour, | :56:42. | :56:46. | |
it'll be over. I'm just going to try and enjoy every moment. -- I know | :56:47. | :56:51. | |
when it's over. I went for purple, but I ditched the | :56:52. | :56:57. | |
lace. Something more modern. Everybody is asking, it is not rich | :56:58. | :57:03. | |
cake, it is orange Madeira. It is an orange Madeira with Orange | :57:04. | :57:05. | |
drizzle and marmalade and buttercream. | :57:06. | :57:10. | |
Sounds delicious. We don't know whether the Queen is even going to | :57:11. | :57:14. | |
taste it. Do you know what you will say to her? | :57:15. | :57:18. | |
I can't make her tasted, can I? No, you can't. | :57:19. | :57:23. | |
It would be great if she did. I haven't even decided what I'm going | :57:24. | :57:28. | |
to do. I've not thought that far. You should start thinking very, very | :57:29. | :57:34. | |
quickly. Thank you, Nadya. Very happy and excited faces behind you. | :57:35. | :57:39. | |
Good morning. We wish you the very good luck with the Queen. Don't make | :57:40. | :57:40. | |
her tasted! Annus horribilius, who will be | :57:41. | :57:49. | |
presenting her birthday cake to the Queen later. You would be nervous. | :57:50. | :57:58. | |
-- Nadya. The sun is shining, that is very good news. Let's take | :57:59. | :58:03. | |
another look at the scene outside Windsor Castle. Those who camped out | :58:04. | :58:07. | |
overnight had a chilly night, I think. But they are being rewarded | :58:08. | :58:13. | |
now with some really unexpected and shine. Let's also take a look at the | :58:14. | :58:17. | |
scene in central London. This is Hyde Park, in preparation for the | :58:18. | :58:25. | |
gun salute to mark Her Majesty's 90th birthday. Last year, of course, | :58:26. | :58:34. | |
she became the longest reigning monarch in British history. Today, | :58:35. | :58:41. | |
she is the first monarch to reach the remarkable age of 90. | :58:42. | :58:50. | |
As our cameras cross over at Windsor Castle, the Queen's weekend home, | :58:51. | :58:57. | |
that'll be the focus of public celebrations. | :58:58. | :00:44. | |
Queen the Queen is wearing a spring grass will coat made by the designer | :00:45. | :01:22. | |
who so often dresses, Angela Kelly, with a hat to match and some flowers | :01:23. | :01:30. | |
pruned -- appended to the brim. She is being greeted by Mr James Huxley | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
and his wife Deborah and also the mayor of the Royal Borough of | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
Windsor. A special day for them and of course a very special day for the | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
Queen. We were not due to have sunshine today, and yet magically, | :01:45. | :01:54. | |
the sun is out. I believe a special June. MUSIC PLAYS: Happy Birthday. | :01:55. | :02:15. | |
And so here we see the Queen on her royal walkabout. Royal walkabout | :02:16. | :02:51. | |
have become such a feature of the monarchy, and what about them is | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
important? Well, we're looking at the monarch who invented them back | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
in 1970 on a tour of New Zealand when the Queen suddenly thought | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
let's change things around a bit. Instead of the red carpet, let's | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
break away and go and meet some ordinary people. They tried it out | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
and it was covered by the press and it has been there ever since. It is | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
now covered by every politician and world leader but it is very much | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
part of the day to day. It is being out there, being seen. And tell us | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
something historically about the changing nature of monarchy. This is | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
a queen who, as we were looking footage of her when she was a | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
bridesmaid, this is a queen who grown and is grown with the role of | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
what is expected of a modern monarchy and she has done it at a | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
time, I suppose, she must be says the face by not as cameras but | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
camera phones and we can see them in the picture there. She understands | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
that she is required by the media to get out there. She understands her | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
own role. She understands she represents something greater than | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
herself and she and those around have this great ability for | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
inventing tradition, as Robert says. This is invented in her own reign. | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
She is very good at picking up ideas as she goes around, particularly | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
from Australia and New Zealand. The Royal family film and all those new | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
innovations came actually threw the Australian staff that she recruited | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
when she came to the throne, she felt that her existing press | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
officials were rather stuffy and old-fashioned. She it was who in | :04:37. | :04:45. | |
places such as Australia, New Zealand, Canada, said come on. Let's | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
get more informal. We see today a new royal website launched this | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
week, totally intimate modern times. She is confused by people taking | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
photographs on their mobiles, because she says, you are seeing it | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
on a screen. It sees a little bit strange. And we saw a wonderful | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
royal salutes from that course. There he is, doing it again. This | :05:14. | :05:22. | |
sort of thing, she is accustomed to. After the coronation in 1953, she | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
went to Australia, and millions of people turned out in the street and | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
when I interviewed the Duke of Edinburgh, he said if the Queen had | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
taken that herself it would have been corrosive, but she doesn't. She | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
is just there as the symbol. She knows it is what she does. She's | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
often touched by it but she does not think I am a personality. As you can | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
see, she is completely unaffected. She's meeting those people who have | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
been camping out all night. Those her most devoted followers. Some of | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
those followers we saw coming out at St Mary's hospital for the birth of | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
Princess Charlotte. The hard-core royal fans. It was the case that | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
they think a cake was sent out to one of them who was elevating their | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
birthday. It is interesting that will never recover royal events, we | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
are always used to seeing, those of us who do the broadcasts, those | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
hard-core group of loyal supporters who will always be there. They would | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
have been there whether it was rain or sunshine today. Even if it was | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
snowing. She is the same Queen when there are four people going down a | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
small ward in a hospital as when there are one thousandths people. | :06:30. | :06:38. | |
She is so consistent. Let me know, Robert, if I have got this right, | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
but you talk so often about the same themes of duty and I was reading | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
that the Queen's father was somebody who adds an iron sense of duty as | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
well as being an intelligent and thoughtful man. It seems he has | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
passed that on. The sense of duty, yes, comes from her father and from | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
her mother, of course, the Queen Mother, and before that from George | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
V and Queen Mary, who shepherded the monarchy through those different -- | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
difficult years. Next year, we will be celibate in 100 years of the | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
house of Windsor. It is worth remembering that these people | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
believe in what they are doing. The Duke of Edinburgh is actually more | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
royal than the Queen, because she is only half royal. They are both great | :07:23. | :07:31. | |
grandchildren of Queen Victoria. They know that this is what they do. | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
They believe in what they are doing. And in a sense, royal tradition is | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
created. The house of Windsor was created in 1917. It was decided that | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
this was the way to go and there were many names that were discussed. | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
Why was that this place and this ancient castle was decided to be the | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
name that would be taken by the modern, as it was, Royals. They have | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
focus groups within the palace and all sorts of names. The joke about | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
putting on a play called the Merry Her duty is also intimately linked | :08:03. | :08:30. | |
with her religious faith. She swore to do her fate before God and for | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
her she has a personal God in whom she believes and to whom she prays. | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
She will be praying tonight and she will be celebrating her birthday not | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
just with a party but with prayers and Bible readings. We do the Duke | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
of Edinburgh there in with the crowds and what Robert is saying | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
goes back to a point the former private secretary made when asked | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
about the longevity of the Queen and he said that the Queen is as strong | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
as a yak, which is an interesting analogy. He said he got that down to | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
three things. Good health, strong faith, and Prince Philip. And | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
bubbles things together and we see it here. -- put those things | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
together. There is the Duke of Edinburgh working the other part of | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
the crowd. He is going to be 95 in June and look at the posture. He was | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
a Greek gods when he was young. Are there are many better looking | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
90-year-olds? We should all try his exercise regime. He does have an | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
hour of each stretching every morning and he has one of those | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
muscle stretchers. A disciplined diet. He does not drink too much. | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
And they are on their feet a lot of their lives. One of the reasons they | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
are so fit and well as they stand a great deal. And here we come onto | :09:50. | :09:57. | |
the walkway. Let's talk very moment about this walkway. The Queen is | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
going to unveil a panel for the walkway that will go throughout | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
Windsor for just about under four miles, I think. Explain to me the | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
significance of the walkway and what it is about. This was started some | :10:10. | :10:17. | |
years ago with the Jubilee walkway, and they are now spreading out all | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
over the Commonwealth and it is a way of bringing together particular | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
aspects of the Commonwealth and locality and encouraging people to | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
walk and giving them a sort of historical Britcom and you through | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
winter there will be 63 discs which you follow in a guidebook, 63 for | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
each year the Queen has rained and they will add one for each | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
subsequent year, and it is very significant that she is standing | :10:43. | :10:44. | |
there and looking at this panel which explains that to visitors and | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
this particular location has been chosen because from that spot where | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
the Queen is standing, she done that at the castle. -- she can look at | :10:52. | :11:05. | |
the castle. Picture perfect. And so this walkway is very carefully | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
placed in Windsor because it is from where the castle can be seen and the | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
Guildhall can be seen and the parish church can be seen and that is all | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
highly significant, the three pillars on which the Queen's rain is | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
built. Yes, she is head of the Church of England. I think she is | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
going to say something. I am not sure she is. She is saying, well | :11:32. | :11:40. | |
done, if you go. I think you can keep talking for now. Very | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
interesting, she gave a special foreword to a book that came out a | :11:45. | :11:54. | |
month or so ago called The Servant Queen and it was a very interesting | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
tests make your own religious faith and it was seen in religious | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
broadcasts. When we hear the Queen 's bigger the opening of Parliament, | :12:03. | :12:10. | |
we know her political speeches and state speeches are written by a | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
mixture of her and the governments but the Christmas broadcast is the | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
Queen herself talking to us about her own personal faith. Can I just | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
ask you about the position of this. It is also opposite the Queen | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
Victoria Statute. Let's talk about that. Queen Victoria, both Prince | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
Philip and the Queen, are the great-great-grandchildren of Queen | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
Victoria who lived almost as long as the Queen and rained almost as long | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
but not quite, and it is a symbol of the great monarchs that we remember. | :12:43. | :12:50. | |
Such as Elizabeth the first, Queen Victoria, Elizabeth II. And it is | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
here in Windsor that has now been the headquarters of the Queen's | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
rain. Forget Westminster. Everything will now be done here. The Queen's | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
Council, when she meets with them, that happens in Windsor when she was | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
entertaining Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, it was here at | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
Windsor. They feel they know the community here. Prince Philip | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
belongs to the local Rotary Club here and I am told he pops in and is | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
just like one of ours. Unannounced, or announced? Sometimes unannounced. | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
They really do feel at home and at ease in Windsor and this is where it | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
will all be happening from now on. 40 monarchs and now the Queen have | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
had a connection with Windsor. Yes, during the war, she and Margaret | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
were said to be somewhere in the country for security reasons but | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
somewhere in the country was here in the Lancaster tower. Very medieval | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
conditions. It was here that she got her lessons in constitutional | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
history. In those days, it was possible to walk out from the gates | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
of the castle, down the high Street, across the bridge, to Eton College | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
and go and have their lessons in how the British constitution works. | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
Years later, William was schooled in Eton and he came back and had | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
lessons in the castle. It is worth remembering. William the Conqueror | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
created this. Henry the first was the first monarch to come and live | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
here permanently. George III built it as it now is. Let's talk at | :14:27. | :14:34. | |
Robert Hardman, about Prince William. He gave an interview this | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
week that was to mark his grandmother's birthday and he was | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
careful to talk in nothing less than respectful terms. That is what we | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
would expect, but yet have some pretty interesting things to say | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
about the weight of duty and how he has learned from watching his | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
grandmother. He is certainly very conscious of the fact that when the | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
Queen was his age, she was already on the donor the fact that she was | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
thrown into this job unexpectedly at the age of 25 and he more than | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
anyone can appreciate what that must be the Queen equally understands | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
that for her young members of the family, it is very important that | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
they do lead in real life for as long as they can. She was very | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
conscious of the fact that she would loved to have spent longer. It was a | :15:17. | :15:23. | |
very sad moment when she became Queen so she is keen for Prince | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
William and Prince Harry and the younger generation to get out there | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
and to breathe, if you like, for as long as they can. It is destiny and | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
it will come to them one day, but in the meantime, let them get on with | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
life as much as they can. Giles, what about the intergenerational | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
appeal rested Mark because it strikes me very much as we look at | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
these grouse year-to-date gathered in Windsor, they span the ages. We | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
have people themselves, some of the special guests who are sharing their | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
90th birthday here with the Queen, but there are very enthusiastic | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
young faces in the crowds. There are shouting and waving a flag because | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
someone has told them to. You do have a variety of generations there. | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
But it is this respect, I think, also for this figure who has been | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
part of their lives. They know nothing else and here she is visible | :16:11. | :16:19. | |
to them and apparently appealing to everyone. I noticed during the | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
Diamond Jubilee, much younger crowds. I think every generation is | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
just in all what she has done. Let's think for a moment about future | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
monarchy because many of the official pictures we have seen this | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
week are very dynastic pictures. Here I am with some people who will | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
succeed me. I am here, I am doing a good job, I tend to be here for a | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
very long time, but there is more to come and it is reliable and it is | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
solid and I embrace it. Those are the messages we get from the | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
pictures. Get the message today is the year is the Queen at 90, still | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
working, supported by the upcoming generations. The monarchy, of | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
course, is only as good as the people doing the job and that is | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
what was interesting about what we do is discussed with Roberts and | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
William will stop it is very interesting that William, having | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
perhaps slightly cast a little criticism on his father's | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
interventionist side, said, don't worry, when I become one, I am going | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
back to the tried and true neutral constitutional system of the Queen. | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
I just thought he was being refreshingly plain speaking and | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
telling it how he sighed. Having seen both Prince William and | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
Catherine in action, they do emulate. They are interesting | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
picture of the Queen and Prince Philip rather than Prince William's | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
own parents in the way they interact with the public. They are doing it | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
more the way of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. I was intrigued. | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
Was it Prince William who said the Queen is both my granny and also the | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
boss? And sometimes I think of are more as the boss than as my granny. | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
And sometimes there is an invisible moat around the Queen. Here she is | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
mingling with us, and yet she is still the Queen, this figure in | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
yellow, everyone standing back with respect for a moment with her and | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
there she is this symbolic figure. Who could begin to cross that moat | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
except perhaps for the Duke of Edinburgh? And also there has to be | :18:19. | :18:20. | |
that sense in which that it is always the case with the Queen that | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
she enjoys the job. She lost the job. -- she loves the job. She would | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
have had ample opportunity to stand back. There have been applications | :18:30. | :18:37. | |
all over the place in Europe. They have all stepped down. She loves the | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
job. She took an oath for life and here we see this wonderful moment | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
she is at the Guildhall alongside the mayor to get her cake. That is | :18:49. | :18:57. | |
not the cake. This is the Guildhall where Prince Charles married | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
Camilla. And it has been at the heart of civic life and normal life. | :19:03. | :19:10. | |
With Colonnade is there that are not necessary. Christopher Wren was | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
appalled when they said that they had to put up colonnades. He said | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
they did not need them and he did not trust the architect. The world | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
would be a dull place that we only did what was necessary. Let's not | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
forget the bigger context. Here we are nationally at a moment of great | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
indecision and debates about whether or not to join Europe, and all sorts | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
of other problems and things we disagree about that here today we | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
have come together to celebrate something most people at least do | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
agree about. The politicians have a job to disagree. The Queen is here | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
to represent what we all stand for and of course look at that smile. | :19:52. | :19:59. | |
Look at that smile. It is worth a million dollars, isn't it? The Queen | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
will now be introduced to the tea party guests. These are all people | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
who are celebrating their 90th birthday this year. And let's think | :20:09. | :20:16. | |
for a moment about the Queen's connection with the people of her | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
generation, the people who remember the Second World War clearly, the | :20:22. | :20:23. | |
people who've been through the five Nations and the rationing. This is | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
key, I think, to understanding the Queen, remembering what they were | :20:30. | :20:45. | |
like. If you are asked, ... Their war years were at the heart of what | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
they are about and they still share those values. Robert Hardman, can I | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
ask you how much... I mean, today, it would appear to be a delightfully | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
British and terribly personal celebration and the Queen is sharing | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
what seems to be her personal day with members of the public. How much | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
will she and maybe Prince Philip have had to do with actually | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
choosing how she celebrates today and how much of it is planned for | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
her without much...? Every detail of today will have been discussed with | :21:17. | :21:18. | |
her. Her private secretaries will today will have been discussed with | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
have gone through this with her. She has probably already read out the | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
names of these people she is meeting now. She will probably even know the | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
mayor and the fact that she presented her with a posy when she | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
was a little girl. Every detail of it has been run past the Queen in | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
advance. She does not like surprises. That is one thing the | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
Palace gates is surprises. I'm not sure she knows what is in the cake | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
yet. And everything is planned so that it can go as smoothly as | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
possible. It is something that is very much generational and it is not | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
something in our contemporary culture, as Giles characterised it. | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
The idea that actually follow a routine and that routine is not only | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
is not to be battled against but can actually be enjoyed. Yes, the | :22:11. | :22:19. | |
Queen's year round, her months in Balmoral in the summer, when she | :22:20. | :22:27. | |
becomes a Scottish countrywoman, and then, as Giles says, her new working | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
headquarters of Windsor, she is a creature of routine, but she | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
enhances it. I think it is familiarity rather than routine. I | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
think she likes order as well. I recall being in a line-up when the | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
Queen was introduced to the wrong person, and she knew it was not the | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
right person. She said they had been standing in the wrong place. Then | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
they moved, and she said it was a much better. She does not like the | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
fact that the Lord lieutenants have to retire. She likes to see the | :23:07. | :23:08. | |
person there. The Lord Lieutenant two year-to-date -- who is here | :23:09. | :23:20. | |
today. Is the one person who she knows will be there and who is her | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
representative within the county and he or she is then the person who | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
takes the Queen around, so she knows this one port of call and there was | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
one in Wales who was due to retire and was quite infirm and she said I | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
must keep him, because he can say all of the Welsh names. Quite | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
understandably, there are people who are in their 90th year who were | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
sitting down to meet the Queen, and it was notable by some of our guests | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
earlier that some of our guests were saying, I watch and I know what my | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
aches and pains when I wake up in the morning, and know that I need to | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
grasp for a handrail and I could not do a walkabout for 25 minutes or 45 | :24:02. | :24:09. | |
minutes and she said I am amazed at her health and fitness and I think | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
both her and the Duke seemed to be almost supercharged in their energy. | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
It is almost amazing will stop you look at events where everyone is | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
sitting down except the Queen. She is on her feet for well over an | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
hour. I think she is a great believer in standing up. She loves | :24:30. | :24:31. | |
standing up. We will see later on, standing up. We will see later on, | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
when she goes through town, she will be standing up. She hands out | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
pockets of money to a number of people. The Duke of Edinburgh, | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
because she is standing, will not sit down even though they are | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
provided with a chair. They will have been standing up for an awfully | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
long time. They are fit and they believe that is what they used to | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
do. When the Queen used to visit her mother who lived here at Windsor | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
towards the end of her life, she was 100 years old and her mother would | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
always, because her daughter was the Queen, come to the door to say | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
goodbye. Even aged 100, she would accompany her daughter to the board | :25:14. | :25:15. | |
to say goodbye because that is what you do in the presence of the Queen. | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
It is a very busy week. I'm guessing a week that fairly regularly | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
represents what the Queen and the Duke do in terms of their duty. | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
Tomorrow, as you mention, the Queen will welcome President Obama and | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
Michelle Obama to Windsor. Is this a state dinner or a different | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
occasion? An official visit. It is not a state visit. Detail the | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
difference. The state visit is one where you are invited, as it were, | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
by the state to represent your country. This is a more personal | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
visit. The Queen and Michelle Obama got on very well. President Obama | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
admires the Queen. It is an opportunity to come. In the evening, | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
they will be meeting not, as you might expect, Prince Charles and | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
Camilla, but the grandchildren and Michelle Obama expressed a desire to | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
meet Prince George and Princess Charlotte. And why wouldn't she? | :26:11. | :26:18. | |
She's speaking out to Martha, the youngest ever contestant in the | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
great British bake off and she has baked all of the cakes for the tea | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
party, not the birthday party. So Martha is chatting, as relaxed as | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
can be, but she has been under the gimlet eyes of Mary Berry, so she is | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
used to being under pressure and there is a sense of, I would say, | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
genuine celebration about today. There is a lightness of touch to | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
everything and there is the young bake off champion who has been | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
charged with breaking shall we say one of the cakes. Maybe at the end | :26:56. | :27:04. | |
of dinner tonight at Windsor Castle. I would love to hear what Prince | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
Philip is saying about the cake. I am sure it is something amusing. I | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
love the way your film about the Queen had that bit about the cake | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
when she could not cut it. Yes, that was a fruitcake. Today, it is not a | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
fruitcake. Nadia said that was the one piece of advice was given by the | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
Palace was that it must not be a fruitcake. There has also been a | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
debate about candles. It was said that if there were 90 candles on the | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
cake, there would not be much room for the cake. It looks like a pretty | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
smooth cuts. Is she making a wish? Will we get a slice? Bird back -- | :27:42. | :27:56. | |
set did say she was very nervous. I would love to know what Prince | :27:57. | :27:59. | |
Philip is saying about this. He is a very funny man. Look, he is saying | :28:00. | :28:09. | |
something drawn out. This is the moment when the lip readers of | :28:10. | :28:12. | |
Britain are enjoying this programme even more than we are. And the Queen | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
are genuinely looks like she is having a good look at all the work | :28:17. | :28:20. | |
that has gone into that. For everybody, it is the day they will | :28:21. | :28:23. | |
remember for the rest of their lives. That is a very interesting | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
thing. Members of the public meeting the monarch. All of the Royal family | :28:29. | :28:31. | |
are very conscious of the fact that it may just be another date for them | :28:32. | :28:35. | |
but for the people they meet, they will remember that for the rest of | :28:36. | :28:38. | |
their lives. They are on show and they are creating memories. They are | :28:39. | :28:44. | |
in the happiness business. All of these people will remember today so | :28:45. | :28:48. | |
everyone has got to be on show. And you say the happiness business, and | :28:49. | :28:51. | |
Giles you have mentioned the Duke. We do tend to remember the rather | :28:52. | :28:56. | |
pithy things you said is that the friendlier, but he does have the | :28:57. | :28:59. | |
capacity to be friendly. He feels it is part of his role to break the | :29:00. | :29:01. | |
ice. He feels he has to do something | :29:02. | :29:15. | |
more. He does do it deliberately. His real role is to look after the | :29:16. | :29:20. | |
Queen and if, like us, you have been many of these occasions, you will | :29:21. | :29:23. | |
know that if anyone gets too close it is the Duke of who says get back. | :29:24. | :29:29. | |
Of course, he does run the family. He runs the household. Talking about | :29:30. | :29:34. | |
date banquets, I discovered the other day that do you know the | :29:35. | :29:37. | |
moment well plates are cleared at state banquets? The staff told to | :29:38. | :29:46. | |
look at Prince Philip. When Prince Philip has finished eating, you | :29:47. | :29:48. | |
clearly played. It doesn't matter what the guest of honour or Queen is | :29:49. | :29:56. | |
doing. -- you clearly plates. She says that she wears the crown and he | :29:57. | :30:04. | |
wears the trousers. Don't you think that is what has been perceived as a | :30:05. | :30:09. | |
fantastically strong union. He is given his place and his significant | :30:10. | :30:14. | |
place in private. Totally. She admires him, she loves him, she | :30:15. | :30:17. | |
gives him every honour she can possibly think of. She is rummaging | :30:18. | :30:22. | |
in her honours draw to think of something more to give him. She | :30:23. | :30:29. | |
absolutely loves him. It is the longest royal marriage in history. | :30:30. | :30:33. | |
It is a great love story and in many years to come, people talk about -- | :30:34. | :30:41. | |
people will talk about Elizabeth and fill in the same way as they do | :30:42. | :30:45. | |
Victoria and Albert. -- Elizabeth and Philip. On one occasion | :30:46. | :30:51. | |
Elizabeth was surrounded by celebrities and the Duke was | :30:52. | :30:56. | |
standing on his own. She looked up and caught his eye. He raised his | :30:57. | :31:01. | |
glass to her. Those little personal moments are very touching. It goes | :31:02. | :31:07. | |
back to the big ceremonial moments. In 1953, the coronation. He swore to | :31:08. | :31:12. | |
be her liege man in a life and limb. Old-fashioned words, but a very | :31:13. | :31:19. | |
modern sentiment. I think we will see quite a lot of that car in the | :31:20. | :31:27. | |
years ahead. We call it the Queen revealed. -- Queen mobile. It is | :31:28. | :31:36. | |
moving very slowly. As well as a normal engine, it has an electric | :31:37. | :31:41. | |
engine. Let's take a moment to consider how deep the crowds are | :31:42. | :31:46. | |
today. You see people there are a dozen deep on the other side of the | :31:47. | :31:53. | |
Guildhall. There is not much more room for anyone. I tried walking | :31:54. | :31:57. | |
through about an hour ago. People are conscious. Think how wonderful | :31:58. | :32:03. | |
it would be if we had been at Queen pictorial's Jubilee? We are here in | :32:04. | :32:09. | |
Windsor on the 90th birthday of Elizabeth II. -- Queen Victoria's | :32:10. | :32:14. | |
due belief. There with her extraordinary partner, Prince | :32:15. | :32:19. | |
Philip. We witnessed the public spectacle this evening. This | :32:20. | :32:22. | |
evening, the Queen and Duke will be looking forward to a private party | :32:23. | :32:27. | |
hosted by her son. What form can we expected to take? How may people | :32:28. | :32:38. | |
might be there? We know it is around 60 people. Very close family and | :32:39. | :32:43. | |
friends. Prince Charles has been organising it. He wants to keep it a | :32:44. | :32:47. | |
secret so even members of the family don't know the menu or other | :32:48. | :32:55. | |
surprises. There will be surprises. Including entertainments that Prince | :32:56. | :32:59. | |
Charles has organised. This you know, you are giving you that there | :33:00. | :33:03. | |
somebody that is keeping a secret. Just in case the Queen, over lunch, | :33:04. | :33:08. | |
replays this, I don't want to give anything away. There will be | :33:09. | :33:13. | |
surprises. It's going to be in the Waterloo chamber, 60-80 people. A | :33:14. | :33:20. | |
family affair, but with some fun and games as well. Robert, what do we | :33:21. | :33:28. | |
know of the Waterloo Chamber? It is named after the great Battle of | :33:29. | :33:34. | |
Waterloo. The banners hang in there and it is a rather wonderful mixture | :33:35. | :33:44. | |
of personal and national. For one night when the President of France | :33:45. | :33:48. | |
came, they called it the music room. How very considerate and delicate. | :33:49. | :33:53. | |
They take this in their stride. It may seem very big to ours, but their | :33:54. | :33:57. | |
family has lived there since the reign of Henry the first. This is | :33:58. | :34:03. | |
their home. When the nanny wrote in her book about the Queen but it was | :34:04. | :34:08. | |
a fortress not a home during the war, the Queen did not like that at | :34:09. | :34:13. | |
all. The fortress is her home. There's so many people but they've | :34:14. | :34:19. | |
had to change the route. So that more people can see what's going on. | :34:20. | :34:27. | |
It was marvellous this morning, coming in on the train from | :34:28. | :34:30. | |
Paddington. Paddington was flooded with people coming out with their | :34:31. | :34:35. | |
flags, already to wave. Windsor has more than played its part today. I | :34:36. | :34:39. | |
couldn't help think earlier as we were looking at the town and the sun | :34:40. | :34:43. | |
was beginning to crack with the sky that if the Hollywood director where | :34:44. | :34:49. | |
to save to his location scout, I want you to find me the perfect | :34:50. | :34:53. | |
English town, then they might well choose Windsor. It does stand up to | :34:54. | :34:58. | |
pretty close scrutiny. Wonderfully British. The thousand year old | :34:59. | :35:01. | |
castle built by William the Conqueror. I think the reference | :35:02. | :35:09. | |
point, I think she says turn left at cafe near. But look at all these | :35:10. | :35:16. | |
people. It is an affirmation of self and nationhood. Countries that don't | :35:17. | :35:19. | |
have a royal family can't quite have this moment. In the United States of | :35:20. | :35:25. | |
America, they have the flag but they don't have a person around whom they | :35:26. | :35:30. | |
can gather. They do have a person, but always that person is a | :35:31. | :35:36. | |
politician. Whereas here we have a symbol. This is a golden thread, | :35:37. | :35:40. | |
going back from this Queen to William the Conqueror. These people | :35:41. | :35:43. | |
in a sense cheering themselves as well. They see the Queen and they | :35:44. | :35:50. | |
think, yes, this is OK. Half the countries on the planet didn't exist | :35:51. | :35:53. | |
in their present form when she came to the throne. This is amazing | :35:54. | :35:59. | |
continuity. We know how much, because we hear it in the Queen's | :36:00. | :36:03. | |
Christmas message, how much the Commonwealth means to the Queen. But | :36:04. | :36:07. | |
do we have a sense of how much the Queen means to the Commonwealth? I'm | :36:08. | :36:11. | |
talking about the people in the countries. Let's not forget, too, | :36:12. | :36:17. | |
the Commonwealth has two countries in it which were never British | :36:18. | :36:20. | |
possessions. They have asked to join. One of her private secretary | :36:21. | :36:27. | |
is said to me that felt the Queen was most of the Queen and most | :36:28. | :36:31. | |
herself when she was with Commonwealth leaders and | :36:32. | :36:34. | |
Commonwealth people. But when she was with other tribal chieftains, | :36:35. | :36:38. | |
she was more at ease and more understood than she was with the | :36:39. | :36:43. | |
sometimes to be politicians. -- sometimes chippie politicians. When | :36:44. | :36:51. | |
historians look back on her reign, they will mark her for having kept | :36:52. | :36:55. | |
the monarchy alive. But the other great creation has been the | :36:56. | :36:59. | |
Commonwealth. There is no other empire in the world but goodbye and | :37:00. | :37:04. | |
stayed on good terms with its former colonies in the way that Britain | :37:05. | :37:08. | |
has. That is due to her. She believes in it. She is the only | :37:09. | :37:12. | |
person, I imagine, in Britain who could name every single Commonwealth | :37:13. | :37:17. | |
Prime Minister. It would be Hamas to mind second subject. -- special | :37:18. | :37:23. | |
subject. -- her mastermind second subject. | :37:24. | :37:28. | |
The other thing she inherited, the Commonwealth she has built from | :37:29. | :37:39. | |
eight nations to 53. It is very much her work and she can be very proud | :37:40. | :37:43. | |
of it. I wonder what the Queen would make of the selfie stick that was | :37:44. | :37:48. | |
poking out of it. I know exactly what the Duke of Edinburgh makes of | :37:49. | :37:51. | |
the selfie stick, but this is family television. There's the post office. | :37:52. | :38:00. | |
I think they are just about to turn the corner, as you said at Cafe | :38:01. | :38:15. | |
Nero. There are other coffee shops. What is intriguing is they will be | :38:16. | :38:19. | |
chatting to one another about what is going on. They are observing it. | :38:20. | :38:24. | |
The Queen of Denmark, who has been a Queen a long time as well, is in her | :38:25. | :38:30. | |
70s and is a friend of the couple. She said her father told her that to | :38:31. | :38:34. | |
be successful as a monarch, you have got to lean forward and not back. | :38:35. | :38:38. | |
Interesting, otherwise you will spend a lifetime with things | :38:39. | :38:41. | |
happening in front of you with which are not engaged. Let's look ahead a | :38:42. | :38:47. | |
little because here we see the Queen today celebrating publicly in her | :38:48. | :38:52. | |
90th year in robust health, as engaged and smiling as we have ever | :38:53. | :38:56. | |
known her. As the royal household and as the people who have planned | :38:57. | :39:00. | |
her events look forward, they must surely take into consideration that | :39:01. | :39:06. | |
this is a woman in her 90s with a husband who is 95. How are they | :39:07. | :39:12. | |
remodelling it and making it a possibility for the future astronaut | :39:13. | :39:17. | |
they take one day at a time. Everything will be done one day at a | :39:18. | :39:32. | |
time. The big items, don't forget next month there is a State Opening | :39:33. | :39:37. | |
of Parliament and in the summer she has 32,000 people coming 40 at | :39:38. | :39:43. | |
garden parties. Nothing much changes. Little things will carry on | :39:44. | :39:45. | |
changing as and when it is and above. Like the vehicle, that they | :39:46. | :39:54. | |
just got into. Recently a royal party went to the Palace of | :39:55. | :39:58. | |
Westminster because the Queen is insistent. Maybe she will delegate a | :39:59. | :40:01. | |
few investitures, but the State Opening of Parliament she will do as | :40:02. | :40:05. | |
long as she can. They are working out how they can cut down the number | :40:06. | :40:08. | |
of steps she had to walk down, whether they could use a lift. | :40:09. | :40:14. | |
Small, practical things. But she wants to be involved in everything | :40:15. | :40:18. | |
and the family and staff work to make that possible. We spend time, | :40:19. | :40:22. | |
as it were, with the secretaries and advisers. They are more protective | :40:23. | :40:27. | |
of them than the Queen and Prince Philip of themselves. They are quite | :40:28. | :40:32. | |
relaxed about it. He is still doing carriage driving in his 95th year. | :40:33. | :40:37. | |
The Queen feels she has entered her penultimate decade. But the show | :40:38. | :40:42. | |
isn't over yet by a long way. We saw her riding the other day out on her | :40:43. | :40:46. | |
pony. And still refusing to wear a hard hat. It is interesting that you | :40:47. | :40:53. | |
say these things, because I have read about they've been told to give | :40:54. | :40:56. | |
up these things because they're not safe and are too old. That is | :40:57. | :41:01. | |
nonsense, is it? It would be a pretty bold person who told them it | :41:02. | :41:09. | |
was time to give up. It has been a lovely morning full of wonderful | :41:10. | :41:13. | |
pictures here in Windsor. We've had a great vantage point from our | :41:14. | :41:19. | |
studio in the castle grounds. Our reporter has been writing the action | :41:20. | :41:23. | |
-- right in the action. I am with a family from Wokingham | :41:24. | :41:34. | |
who have had an eventful 45 minutes. The Duke of Edinburgh came over to | :41:35. | :41:37. | |
speak to us and asked us where we were from. He looked at my son. The | :41:38. | :41:45. | |
Queen was on the other side expecting some chocolate from small | :41:46. | :41:48. | |
gifts from other people. That was fantastic. It was a momentous | :41:49. | :42:02. | |
moment. What a lovely memory. My son did not manage to pass on his | :42:03. | :42:08. | |
flowers. He got halfway. Your grandma is the ringleader, it was | :42:09. | :42:12. | |
your idea to bring the family out. Why are you such a fan of Her | :42:13. | :42:17. | |
Majesty? I think it is a special day and Her Majesty has been really... | :42:18. | :42:22. | |
She has kept the country going, I think. I hope she carries on for | :42:23. | :42:28. | |
many more years. It is a very special day and I'm thoroughly | :42:29. | :42:32. | |
enjoying it. I met the family this morning and the first thing I | :42:33. | :42:35. | |
noticed is one-year-old Charlotte over here eating cake. Queen's 90th | :42:36. | :42:41. | |
birthday is the one day you can eat cake although. She is due her cake | :42:42. | :42:45. | |
for lunch. Enjoy your cake for lunch, Charlotte! Thank you. | :42:46. | :42:53. | |
The tea party he has broken up a little, but I am glad to say that | :42:54. | :42:59. | |
Peggy, Ruby and Albert are still with us. All 90 this year and all | :43:00. | :43:03. | |
met the Queen. Did you manage to speak to her, Albert? I said hello, | :43:04. | :43:13. | |
ma'am. She spoke back. I said to her that I like racing, and she does. I | :43:14. | :43:19. | |
told her about when I saw her in her uniform when she joined. She was | :43:20. | :43:30. | |
very interested. A lovely, lovely lady. A fantastic moment. How about | :43:31. | :43:39. | |
you, Ruby? We spoke briefly. She asked me if I lived in Windsor and I | :43:40. | :43:43. | |
told I lived in Maidenhead. She asked me if I was 90 and I told her | :43:44. | :43:48. | |
I was born a few weeks before her. But with it, because I was the in | :43:49. | :43:53. | |
the line. Lovely to see both of you wearing green, a very good choice. | :43:54. | :43:59. | |
Did you manage to speed to her? I did, and I thought she looked | :44:00. | :44:03. | |
absolutely gorgeous. So much nicer than when you see her on | :44:04. | :44:07. | |
photographs. Absolutely. She was charming. A remarkable woman. | :44:08. | :44:13. | |
Physically to have walked all this wearing. I was pleased they picked | :44:14. | :44:20. | |
her up for a lift. She has been standing all around this morning. | :44:21. | :44:23. | |
She has been amazing, quite an experience. One thing I shall go | :44:24. | :44:28. | |
home, sit with a cup of tea and think about it. Did this really | :44:29. | :44:35. | |
happen? Peddie, Ruby and Albert it has been a pleasure to meet you. | :44:36. | :44:39. | |
Thank you and I'm sure these memories will stay with you for | :44:40. | :44:45. | |
ever. Ruby, you are being distracted by the mayor! You are a very | :44:46. | :44:46. | |
important person now. I am welcoming back Dame James | :44:47. | :44:58. | |
Collins, Michael Moore pogo. -- Dame Joan Collins. This is one of the | :44:59. | :45:05. | |
most historic moment in my life. I will remember it forever and I | :45:06. | :45:08. | |
really hope that I will be around here for her 100th. There are many | :45:09. | :45:17. | |
occasions where you have actually met Her Majesty. But I'm talking now | :45:18. | :45:22. | |
just as a citizen of Great Britain. When you say this is a big day, what | :45:23. | :45:28. | |
is it about it? Well, she's so down-to-earth and she is so warm. I | :45:29. | :45:33. | |
hate to use the word ordinary, but she has this feeling of grandeur, | :45:34. | :45:40. | |
and yet been a real person. It's an amazing characteristic and she has | :45:41. | :45:45. | |
never put a foot wrong. She has never said anything against all of | :45:46. | :45:49. | |
the things that go on in the world but one would be opinionated about, | :45:50. | :45:52. | |
and I think she is a superb example of a monarch and a great woman. | :45:53. | :45:58. | |
Michael, we heard Peggy say she would go home with a cup of tea and | :45:59. | :46:03. | |
think about this. I understand you met the Queen for the first time | :46:04. | :46:07. | |
when you were a very young man. Extreme. I was a cadet and I was | :46:08. | :46:13. | |
selected because I was a good chat. -- 16 years old. I went to India | :46:14. | :46:17. | |
with a couple of other cadets to accompany on her tour of India in | :46:18. | :46:21. | |
1961. It was one of those experiences which was, for a young | :46:22. | :46:28. | |
person... Such memories of it. I met her, didn't know what to say, froze. | :46:29. | :46:39. | |
I was lucky enough to be invited to have lunch with a lot of other | :46:40. | :46:44. | |
people. There was no fear. I was sitting next to a member of the | :46:45. | :46:48. | |
family, the matriarch of the tribe, to whom I fought great warmth and | :46:49. | :46:53. | |
respect, and she has this way of engaging with people. Very directly, | :46:54. | :47:02. | |
very personally. I just felt this is an extraordinary woman and we are | :47:03. | :47:06. | |
very lucky to have her. It is an interesting thing, when I was | :47:07. | :47:10. | |
talking to you at the beginning of this morning's celebration and I was | :47:11. | :47:14. | |
talking about this element of performance and the fact it is | :47:15. | :47:22. | |
something of a stage. That is the intrigue of the dual role that she | :47:23. | :47:30. | |
occupies. She manages to be utterly personal and to give people a | :47:31. | :47:38. | |
personal moment of her time. That is a tricky one to pull off. It is | :47:39. | :47:44. | |
extraordinary. Here we are in the shadow of this extraordinary castle, | :47:45. | :47:48. | |
built for William the Conqueror. It epitomises what royalty is for us. | :47:49. | :47:54. | |
The accommodation of history, heritage and their retail appeals to | :47:55. | :47:58. | |
us. Princes, princesses and 1000 years of our islands Ory. -- island | :47:59. | :48:06. | |
story. She is the body who is consistent and has been with us all | :48:07. | :48:10. | |
our lives. She represents the best British. Happy birthday to her. | :48:11. | :48:16. | |
Before we go, I just want to speak to our reporter one more time, who | :48:17. | :48:19. | |
is among the crowds who have been enjoying the Queen's company. | :48:20. | :48:25. | |
I am with some ladies who are absolutely beaming, look at their | :48:26. | :48:31. | |
smiles. They are so excited that they have been here for the Queen's | :48:32. | :48:35. | |
birthday. One has come all the way from Connecticut. I would not have | :48:36. | :48:42. | |
missed this for the world. This was so exciting, wasn't it? Especially | :48:43. | :48:48. | |
when she recognised you. She liked my crown, she wanted to trade but | :48:49. | :48:54. | |
she didn't have her is with her. You all met at the world wedding, Sony | :48:55. | :48:56. | |
warrior family has brought you together as friends. -- so the Royal | :48:57. | :49:04. | |
family. It was such a special occasion. We stayed in touch by | :49:05. | :49:09. | |
Facebook. When Donna said she was coming over, we couldn't not | :49:10. | :49:17. | |
celebrate. Donna let me in. You said I was pushing. What is it about the | :49:18. | :49:24. | |
Queen makes you smile like this. Where do you start? She is an | :49:25. | :49:29. | |
inspiration. She's a wonderful person. To be working full time like | :49:30. | :49:34. | |
she does at her rage, she is a looks beautiful. How could you not just | :49:35. | :49:40. | |
want to be here and celebrate and wish her happy birthday? It is so | :49:41. | :49:45. | |
lovely to see such beautiful smiles on the three ladies. Lovely to meet | :49:46. | :49:49. | |
you and I'm glad you had such a great day. | :49:50. | :49:54. | |
Let's go to the Guildhall with Chris Hollins. He has caught up with the | :49:55. | :49:57. | |
other lady of the moment. Having nerves gone? I'm breathing | :49:58. | :50:12. | |
now. What did the Queen say to you? She asked me what I've got inside | :50:13. | :50:16. | |
the cake. She said what is inside, I said Orange drizzle. She said does | :50:17. | :50:23. | |
it cut? I figure that she had a fear that it would cut or she has had an | :50:24. | :50:29. | |
experience where it wouldn't. There was one experience where she didn't. | :50:30. | :50:36. | |
She went right the way through. I was worried that it wouldn't, but it | :50:37. | :50:40. | |
did. Disappointing that she didn't take a party bag away, but we are | :50:41. | :50:45. | |
very fortunate to have the cake. This is orange drizzle. It works. | :50:46. | :50:53. | |
Well done! You must be so proud. Of the cake? This has to be one of my | :50:54. | :51:00. | |
proudest moments. It was over really quickly. I am reliving it again now | :51:01. | :51:04. | |
in my hand. It is like, that actually happened! I met the Queen. | :51:05. | :51:10. | |
All that sweating and crying in your kitchen was all worth it. That makes | :51:11. | :51:17. | |
the cake sound inedible. No, it was OK. There were times when I was | :51:18. | :51:21. | |
relaxing and my husband said, you realise who is cake you're making? | :51:22. | :51:25. | |
You need to get up and get on it. How many times I going to get to do | :51:26. | :51:29. | |
this? I tried to enjoy every single moment. You know what to do now? But | :51:30. | :51:35. | |
the catalogue because we need a cup of tea to go with it. -- put the | :51:36. | :51:37. | |
kettle on. Robert, as a historian, can I come | :51:38. | :51:54. | |
to you for a historic perspective? How important is it that these small | :51:55. | :51:59. | |
events have their significance within the royal diary and within | :52:00. | :52:03. | |
the royal history? We will all look back on today as Jane said earlier | :52:04. | :52:07. | |
and remember we were here. Today it and intimidate. As a monarch, two | :52:08. | :52:18. | |
birthdays. The official birthday in the summer and that will be equally | :52:19. | :52:23. | |
historic. Royalty speaks. It is a berry human institution and its | :52:24. | :52:27. | |
beaks to our memories. -- a very human. It brings people together. An | :52:28. | :52:34. | |
interesting thing, you were somebody who has been very well known for a | :52:35. | :52:38. | |
number of years. In this age of constant libertine where everybody | :52:39. | :52:47. | |
has their 15 seconds. -- constant celebrity. It is something very | :52:48. | :52:55. | |
different that goes on with our monarchy and our connection to them. | :52:56. | :53:01. | |
That is absolutely true for the Queen. I think that people are able | :53:02. | :53:08. | |
to see through celebrities. That is why some of them only have their 15 | :53:09. | :53:12. | |
seconds. The reason people love her is that she has been true to herself | :53:13. | :53:17. | |
here and she has been true to what she was not born to become, but what | :53:18. | :53:23. | |
she had become when her father died. That is totally to devote herself to | :53:24. | :53:31. | |
this country. As she said, when she became Queen, she was determined to | :53:32. | :53:38. | |
devote herself totally to this country. That is people see, because | :53:39. | :53:44. | |
she has and she has never, ever put a foot wrong. Not a foot. Michael, | :53:45. | :53:49. | |
let's take a moment to look at some of the many photographs that have | :53:50. | :53:54. | |
been released this week to the public. There is the one from the | :53:55. | :54:00. | |
stamp. Little George's smile is almost bigger than his face. That is | :54:01. | :54:04. | |
a cracking picture and what it embodies is, in its way, and you are | :54:05. | :54:10. | |
a story writer of many successful books, the story of monarchy in that | :54:11. | :54:15. | |
photograph. In a way, it is the narrative that is one of the things | :54:16. | :54:18. | |
that is so beguiling. It is the fairy tale and the narrative. | :54:19. | :54:24. | |
Looking at that family, the story of the family and the nation has been | :54:25. | :54:26. | |
passed through generation to generation. They are all there. | :54:27. | :54:33. | |
What's really interesting, if it was just that, just this family, it | :54:34. | :54:38. | |
wouldn't be very interesting. But that the red now runs through us all | :54:39. | :54:41. | |
and we are connected to it. That thread is being spiritual heart of | :54:42. | :54:48. | |
our country and from that I think we get not just security, it tells us | :54:49. | :54:53. | |
chart change. 70 years I have lived, and she has lived 90, we have seen | :54:54. | :54:57. | |
probably more change in those decades in human history. That is | :54:58. | :55:03. | |
what is wonderful. Beautifully summed up. Thank you to all of my | :55:04. | :55:06. | |
guests and especially the three of you for joining us. That is it, this | :55:07. | :55:12. | |
morning's 90th birthday celebrations are, I'm afraid to say at an end. | :55:13. | :55:18. | |
The party is only on pause because in Windsor at seven o'clock tonight | :55:19. | :55:21. | |
the Queen will make her second public appearance of the day as she | :55:22. | :55:24. | |
writes beacon in the grounds of the castle. -- light. That set off a | :55:25. | :55:33. | |
chain of 1000 beacons and BBC One at nine o'clock tonight there is a | :55:34. | :55:37. | |
chance to glimpse Her Majesty's remarkable life as we enjoy some | :55:38. | :55:40. | |
private home movies that have never been seen publicly before. Later in | :55:41. | :55:45. | |
the years we were talking about, in June, we will be bringing you the | :55:46. | :55:49. | |
celebration surrounding Her Majesty's official birthday. Now, | :55:50. | :55:55. | |
from all of us, happy birthday your Majesty, and goodbye. | :55:56. | :57:05. | |
The latest satellite sequence shows that large swathes | :57:06. | :57:06. |