newspapers are the newspapers are pointed in one direction, the road coming up from the main sandringham house. the royals come in a chauffeur driven car. i don't know if you can see that at the moment on the news channel. earlier on they did a heart as well. people trying to send a message that the royal family. so, who will, apart from the queen? we don't think prince philip will be here. he hasjust don't think prince philip will be here. he has just left don't think prince philip will be here. he hasjust left hospital and did not attend last year as he has stepped back from public life. prince andrew, there has been a lot of scrutiny and criticism because of his friendship with the convicted sex offenderjeffrey epstein. prince charles attended a private church service earlier. we could see princess charlotte and prince george

attending the service for the first time and people have been queueing for hours to see the royal family. those will be one of the main draws for people coming down, a chance to see two of the youngest members of the royal family. this is such a tradition for some people. it is a tradition for some people. it is a tradition for some people. it is a tradition for the royal family to attend church on christmas day but actually, now, the circle we saw in the sky earlier they have made it into a smiley face. hopefully the cameraman can show you that. they have done a little emoji for the royal family. that was my next question, how do they do that?! no idea. that will be a welcome sight for the children if they come up. a lot of speculation about who will

attend. and some peoplejust lot of speculation about who will attend. and some people just really wa nt to attend. and some people just really want to see the queen. some have not seen her before in person. at sandringham you get to see are quite up sandringham you get to see are quite up close and personal which you don't get at events at buckingham palace or windsor castle or balmoral, so lots of people here are excited to see the queen for the first time, because she's such an institution, most of us can only remember her as the queen, we cannot remember her as the queen, we cannot remember her as the queen, we cannot remember herfather. remember her as the queen, we cannot remember her father. so a remember her as the queen, we cannot remember herfather. so a lot remember her as the queen, we cannot remember her father. so a lot of excitement about that. and after the christmas day service they tend to go back to the main house and have the kind of christmas day that most of us have, they have christmas lunch, they pull crackers and the thing that they have is they all sit down to watch the christmas speech together, which we wouldn't watch it with our grandma having made the speech in the same room with us! that is a big family celebration. lots of interest in just who will be

here today from lots of people in the crowd. just on that crowd, you are talking to some people who were there earlier. at least they have a sunny, crisp morning for it. but it is astonishing, notjust the size of the crowd to come to see the royal family at sandringham, but the fact that some of them will have been there so long. it is amazing. i spoke to one woman from hemel hempstead. she set off at 11:16am yesterday, took four buses, her son picked up, drove her to sandringham. they got here and iam this morning. she was queueing at the gate. her son was asleep in his car. and she was just so excited about seeing the royals. she's very dedicated the royals, and her son is dedicated to his mum, driving her up and down the country to see the royal family!”

country to see the royal family!|j will country to see the royal family!” will come back to you in the moment when those key arrivals occur. let's ta ke when those key arrivals occur. let's take viewers to another significant scene. this is in saint peter's square, at the vatican. a beautiful morning there as well. in a few moments was multi—time pope francis will deliver his address, the address on christmas day which delivers the traditional papal message to the world from outside the front of st peter's basilica, and you can see the huge crowds that have built up, there, in the last few minutes. this follows what the pope said at his christmas eve mass inside the basilica and there were various quotes that emerged from his address. he than christmas by saying god loves everyone, the worst of us. you may have mistaken ideas, he says, you may have made a complete mess of things, but the lord

continues to love you. that is the message from the argentine pontiff at that christmas eve mass which could be interpreted by some as a reference to church scandals. we will go back to the vatican with our correspondent when he begins that address in ten minutes' time. we are juggfing address in ten minutes' time. we are juggling various events. let's go back to sandringham. we can see the entrance to the church. it will only bea entrance to the church. it will only be a few moments now before the first of the royal arrivals appear. they don't necessarily owe appear at once, do they? their might be a staggered series of arrivals. they tend to walk up in groups together. they do not come in one huge group. there might be a couple walking on the head. then the queen is chauffeur driven. you can then see the canon who will be the service.

the service is due to start at i! harry m. so i willjust stand on my tiptoes and see if i can see down the road. i'm reasonably tall and i can't see anything. i presume that they have left the house, but they must be a fair bit away from us now. the itself has christmas songs, carols and readings and you can hear on the speakers outside the church so on the speakers outside the church so the people waiting to see the royal family can hear the service at this is going on. and then on the journey back to the house, the royal family tend to stop and talk to people and that's an opportunity for people and that's an opportunity for people to try and get photos, some people to try and get photos, some people have brought flowers. i spoke to one person who was going to give charlotte a doll, and the police officers are doing a lot of moving around so i think their arrival is pretty imminent so hopefully on the news channel we will see them fairly

soon. we are hoping to see them quite soon. a bit of movement now with the security staff. a lot of people here, because the royal family are in attendance, but it is a realfriendly, family are in attendance, but it is a real friendly, relaxed family are in attendance, but it is a realfriendly, relaxed affair. the sniffer dogs are going round but they are being stroked by the children. even the sniffer dogs have been done up for christmas. they have got tinsel around their neck, which you don't usually see! everyone is in a good mood. the dogs with the tinsel round the neck look very sweet. i don't think the royal family, we can see them yet, because thatis family, we can see them yet, because that is when you know they are coming because if you have ever been to one of these events the photographers are on stepladders and they climb to the top of those so that they get the best possible view of what is going on. and the church service isn't usually that long so

they get back to the main house to enjoy the rest of their day in privacy, really, and have a relaxing family time and as is typical with the royal family, they do a lot of things on christmas eve, so they will have exchanged presents already which is what the royal family do, because queen victoria was my husband prince albert who was german, that tradition in continental europe of swapping christmas presents on christmas eve, the british royal family do that although they did not give each other luxurious presence like you might expect like fur coats and cashmere scarves! they give each other jokey presence. one cashmere scarves! they give each otherjokey presence. one year catherine gave prince harry a grow your own girlfriend kit! but now he is married to meghan, but that is what he received, once. we can see the difference the royal family are

starting to walk up. i can't tell you are at this point, but we are seeing quite a large group of people walk up now from the main house. all of the cameras, obviously peoples phones are lifted to the sky to try to get a really good picture of them as they walk up, so, we will probably see them at the gate of the church in the next five minutes. we are swapping between two different camera views, so at the moment we are showing the entrance to the church as you describe, then occasionally be cut to this short which gives us more sense of the road and the route that at least some members of the royal family will be following, whether they are on foot or whether they arrive in a car as we expect her majesty the queen to do. you mentioned this a moment ago. you hint at why this has

such appeal to the well wishes, because so often if you are somebody who wants to follow the royal family and see them going about their business, you have to do that from a great distance. the chances of getting close enough to see them, to ta ke getting close enough to see them, to take a decent photo, to even have a conversation or to hand them a gift, it is almost unimaginable and this is one of those rare opportunities where people can do that. exactly. people can get really close to them and have a conversation, and the royals do stop and talk to people. one woman were sent to me last year she dropped her phone on the floor, and meghan picked it up and gave it to her, so you do get that interaction which was on people if they are big fans of the royal family, they really enjoy that, and thatis family, they really enjoy that, and that is what they have gone for, and some people have followed them for yea rs some people have followed them for years and years. actually, now, i think you might be able to see them coming up. indeed. that looks a much more significant vehicle approaching

the church than we have seen previously. so let's stay with these pictures. a beautiful morning in east anglia. members of the royal family arriving at st mary magdalen church on the sandringham estate as they turn up that last section of they turn up that last section of the drive before they are whisked off outside the entrance to the church. that scene will no doubt soon church. that scene will no doubt soon be fit filled with those vehicles. we can see the police officers and the members of the public to the left. in a moment, those cars will arrive there and various members of the royal party will enter the church for that i! o'clock service. as charlotte was saying, the prince of wales and his brother prince andrew have already been to the church, they went to a nine o'clock service held at the

same church and we saw a photograph of charles and his brother andrew going in, then. iwould expect of charles and his brother andrew going in, then. i would expect to see charles at this point at the ii o'clock service and andrew as well. and here we are, with part the royal party, you can see william and catherine and george and charlotte. there has been quite a lot of anticipation about them attending today for the first time. and now the limousine with her majesty the queen inside stops. and we wait for her to get out of the vehicle, and no doubt be greeted that the steps of the church. in a bright red outfit for christmas day. the duke of edinburgh not with her, as we anticipated, in the light of him

returning from hospital yesterday. princess and and the duchess of cornwall there, behind her majesty the queen as well. i'm princess charlotte and prince george and the other members of the royal family claiming those steps, the short path to the entrance to the church. moments away from the start of that service. there will not be a great deal of further activity at this point because they will go inside and the service will be at i! o'clock and as charlotte was saying it's not a particularly long service. they will be coming back out of the church. prince charles just waiting for his mother to go inside. his wife, the duchess of cornwall. and in they go. members of the royal party, waiting for that

service. george goes in. his father. princess beatrice is there. princess beatrice with her fiance, princess beatrice is there. princess beatrice with herfiance, attending for the first time. just posing, one assumes for various welcomes to be served to the royal party. princess annejust waiting to served to the royal party. princess anne just waiting to go served to the royal party. princess annejust waiting to go in. and her husband. and i think that is probably the conclusion to those various significant royal arrival so the service will begin at i! various significant royal arrival so the service will begin at 11 o'clock and we will take you slightly further back from the close—up of the church door. there is the entrance itself to the churchyard, and that's the scene, there, so the conversations that members of the public will hope to have with members of the royal family as they leave the church, in about 20—30

minutes. this is bbc news. the headlines at i! minutes. this is bbc news. the headlines at 11 o'clock. the queen leads members of the royal family at their traditional christmas day service. three members of a british family have drowned at a holiday resort on the costa del sol. spanish police are investigating. the dean of westminster abbey says britain is in need of the hope offered by the christmas story. hundreds of people in australia have been forced from their homes for the holidays as the country battle some of its worst bushfires in years. and coming up, doris day, clive james, toni morrison and albert finneyjust some of those whose whose lives are

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