>> welcome to our viewers from around the world. you're watching one of the most extraordinary days in the history of the royal family. i'm pearce pieiers morgan. >> good to see from you london. i'm brooke baldwin. >> no the fenext two hours you' see a marvelous celebration honoring queen elizabeth ii 60 years on the phone. minutes from now her majesty will leave parliament and end up

on the balcony of buckingham palace. >> we want to show you what you can expect as you are with us on cnn over the course of the next hour. right now as we mentioned, she's actually at westminster hall having this luncheon with her son, prince charles, along with his wife, camilla and also there two of her most famous grandsons, prince harry and prince william of course. the duchess of cambridge. that's all happening at westminster hall. >> there's a map. this is my hometown. let me guide you through this. >> go for it. >> we have houses of parliament and big ben and then the procession moves up to trafalgar square and it will come into the mall up to buckingham palace. what will be remarkable scenes right behind us just here and already you can feel the crowds building. they expect up to a million people in the streets and we've been seeing a procession of

bands and guardsmen. >> you can hear it over the microphones. we're hearing -- let's just listen. this is one of the bands. >> as we continue watching all of these live pictures and really we're just getting started here because she hasn't even left westminster hall. >> look at the household c cavalry. >> quite extraordinary. >> rolling out the red carpet on this day celebrating her 60-year reign. we want to check in with becky anderson standing by with some very, very proud brits this morning. hi, becky. >> reporter: hello there.

just as you speak to us, the band is coming toward uses from my right-hand side. we have buckingham palace behind us. the crowd here really waiting in anticipation for the queen's arrival in 40 minutes time. the mall is absolutely packed as richard was saying. once they open the mall, this crowd will just swarm down to what is buckingham palace behind me. my friend is from bangladesh. are you enjoying yourself? >> i am enjoying here. lifetime opportunity in london. the queen jubilee. >> reporter: did you see the marching band come behind us? >> it's fantastic. amazing actually. the nice music. >> reporter: are you going to pole vault this fence when you know you can? you have to be an acrobat as this will be open when the queen

comes in and people push toward the fence. you get the fly by and queen on the balcony. this is what we have here outside buckingham palace as we speak. >> thank you, becky. right behind us as we are speaking, you can see a lot of the queen's guards coming through. >> i have my 101 in reading up for this assignment. if you look at the hats, they are different colors that signify different branches within the infantry. this is blue. if we get tighter shots you can see even they are down to their gold buttons down the front of their jackets. some are single. some are triple. some are double. >> richard, talk us through. there are five guards regiments.

explain the differences and subtleties. >> no plume is scott's guards. a white bloom on left is different. red is cold stream. a green on the left is the welch. a blue is irish. you're impressed? >> he's working through different colors. this is the voice of richard qwest. we're watching them enter. we're perched just aside from the picture. that's the balcony. that's the center gate. the culmination of the procession will be through this precise gate in a little while from now once she comes up the mall and then the big shot on the balcony. i have to tell you sitting here seeing it for the first time, the balcony with the red bunting is so much bigger in person.

>> it's the most famous balcony in the world. even romeo and juliet couldn't compete for this one. today will be a very special moment for the queen as she looks down over the mall with up to a million people watching and be there with her family apart from her husband. important to also note that the guards that we've been seeing are taking part in procession and bands and so on, these are not just ceremonial soldiers. these are real soldiers. these people have been to iraq and afghanistan. they are proper acting servicemen who today are acting in this way. it's quite stunning. when you see it -- >> let's just listen. it's amazing. ♪

>> this is inside of westminster hall. >> inside westminster hall. there is the queen having had the royal salute and the national anthem. and so comes to an end the lunch part of the proceedings. very shortly the queen will now be leaving along with other members of the royal family. and will be joining of course the carriage procession. outside westminster hall at this moment, the sovereigns escort is forming along with all of the

members of the household cavalry. this is what britain does best. what you are seeing is now the queen's troop, the royal horse artillery who are lining up on horse guards parade where they will be firing the gun salute. >> 41-gun salute to her imagima, the queen. this is the senior group. when they have their guns, they take precedence over all others. the queen is now leaving with the sovereign stick in front and will be joined by silver stick in waiting. i'll explain all of that when we get to the moment of the procession.

piers and brooke at buckingham palace. i think the rain must have finally got into the works. we've lost them because of technical difficulties. we probably didn't pay the electricity bill. any way, as soon as we wind up the elastic band. piers and brooke, you are back. we paid the bill. welcome back. >> we keep being cruelly cut off. you willamuse d to hear, richard, this has nothing to do with us or weather here. it's all about weather at cnn's headquarters in atlanta. >> we're back. >> we main as enthusiastic and excited as we were before we were removed from the process. let's talk about the procession. we're going to go to a quick commercial break and then i'll tell you all about the procession. we're at the exclusive el chorro lodge

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welcome back to london for day four, final day of the queen's diamond jubilee celebrations. this is exciting. this is verging on historic. we've been joined by the great legendary newsman, sir david frost. >> bless you. glad to be here. >> lloyd weber who is part of the concert last night. welcome. my good lord and dickey who should be a lord but is overlooked to the years of service at buckingham palace. put into context what this is all about. when people say why should we care that the queen is having her 60th anniversary celebration, what do you say? the first thing is it emerges quickly that people do care. it may be difficult to explain exactly what it is but you suddenly pee seem really do care and when they go to places people care and they gather and here and they really do care.

what is it? on the one hand people want to see the glamour of palaces and so on and then on the other hand journalists say it's very important we get across the fact that royals are ordinary folk. people want them to be extraordinary and ordinary. it's quite difficult. >> we have breaking news. >> we have just learned and hopefully this is a good sign of things to come weatherwise. the 1902 state landau will be used. they hope the rain won't fall on the queen. richard, what more do you know about this breaking carriage news? >> we've been going backwards and forward. will it be the australian coach from 1998 or 1902 state landau. it is raining and we'll get the first umbrellas as you can see from the lining up outside of the palace yard, they'll use the 1902 landau unless they change

at the last minute which means all of the people, you, me, everybody else will get a spectacular view of the procession. >> even as we said that they were going for the open top carriage, the rain suddenly got heavier. organizing these things must be a hellish nightmare. just now as we said they go with the open top and down comes the rain. >> it's a nightmare you can't predict. years ago the queen would ride and ran cats and dogs overnight and thought of calling it off. they didn't. the sun came out for trooping. by the time the queen got down to buckingham palace, the heavens opened and there's a marvelous picture of her in the center gateway with her head sort of crunched over because the rain is lashing down. >> i want to talk to andrew about last night's concert which was an incredible extravaganza

ending with madness on the roof. you were involved in this charity record that came out for the jubilee. tell me about that. >> that's the official song which i had written with gary barlow. it was great last night. we wanted to celebrate one thing. to pick up on one thing that david said -- sir david, sorry. one thing we wanted to do was celebrate her involvement with the commonwealth. in a way that's the unsaid thing that really in a multicultural society like britain today, i think it's the fact that she kept the commonwealth together in the ways that she has for 60 years that's the thing she'll be most remembered for. we wanted to try to be as inclusive as we could. we had a lot. very moving performance. >> what was it like, you were on the stage at the end when everyone came out. >> what did that feel like? >> the queen and prince charles

made that great speech. how was it to be there? >> the thing i enjoyed the most at the beginning this wasn't shown on television but i went out with the director of the choir and rehearsed the whole audience. that was fun. you were not completely on duty but a huge sight and the people down the mall is amazing. >> here she is back to more live pictures. this is the queen walking solo without her husband, prince phillip, because he's in hospital because of this bladder infection. it looks like this luncheon is over. despite rain we hear on the set roof, she will take the open carriage, state landau which last time we saw it was when we saw william and kate heading from the abby to the palace.

will the queen have an umbrella? >> if it's just a minute drizzle, it will be an umbrella. what's interesting is prince phillip is not here, he was carriage driving yesterday morning. he was actually carriage driving at the age of 90, 91 on sunday. so they must have been concerned to take him to hospital after that. >> talk to me about prince phillip. he's the man who is not here today. what an amazing rock he has been to the queen. >> incredible rock. she's recently said it more clearly than ever and he has been incredible because it is arguably one of the most difficult roles in the world how you stay a consult and yet you stay respected as well. >> we're watching the queen now getting into the landau carriage. this is a piece of history. watch this.

>> now you can see the queen and because her husband is not well, she's now being joined -- this was a bit of last-minute change this morning. she's now joined by her son, prince charles, and his wife camilla. it will no longer be this three-carriage procession. it will be two. the first carriage you see here. the second carriage will be prince harry, william and catherine and so they will begin this procession which will take them past trafalgar square where

this massive crowd is that will be opened up and able to walk along the mall. before they do, she of course goes up the mall and to buckingham palace. here's my question. the significance of this particular procession. does this more or less emulate what happened back in 1953, june 2nd when she was coordinated. is it the same procession or slightly different? >> it was a very large procession in 1953, 59 years ago. it went quite a considerable way around london. this is a very short ceremonial procession. it adds a little bit of pageantry to today. >> i'm going to stop you. we have to take a quick break. we'll be back right in time hopefully for the carriage to hopefully for the carriage to arrive at trafalgar square. abo.

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you are watching live pictures of the queen. she's in the open carriage. the weather has held on just long enough for her majesty. you have the household cavalry at the front. a spectacular sight. david frost, in all of yours years in watching the royals, there's something very magical about this weekend i'm detecting. >> there is. something to do with the age factor that there is this love for the queen and there is the same feeling that they may not quite be a weekend like this ever again. with this family. >> what is the magic of the queen? why is she so revered not just in this country but around the world? >> i think she represents something which is constant in the changing world. >> stability. >> it is that. i think the fact that we know that her values are extraordinary. when she gave that speech to the united nations two or three

years ago, i had the great fortune to have sat next to her when she was talking about what was going on with the speech. everything was from here. from the heart. not from up there. it wasn't what an adviser was telling her to do. it's what she wanted to say about religious tolerance. >> i have to ask, just what in the world is that like sitting next to the queen? what is that experience like? i just never ever have -- >> not quite as nerve-racking as when we did a private party for her birthday. she is as close to me as to me when we performed the new song. in fact she heard it before. she came down to our house, we played it. >> let me get you to hold that thought. let's just watch. i want that answer in a moment. >> this is great. this is the queen arriving toward trafalgar. the crowds are huge. a joyous celebration. let's watch a bit of this.

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>> we're caughti ingetting our videos here. >> the cavalry now entered the main gate. >> no finer sight than leading the queen home to buckingham palace. >> you can still see the stage set up from last night. just imagine -- >> there she is. >> the majesty. the queen of england. >> the 60-gun salute still going off as she enters the main gate. >> wonderful scenes. >> not too far behind them the carriage with william, catherk and harry.

>> now she's home. >> did you see the flag up there? that's the royal standard which only flies in all its splendor when the queen is in residence

as she now is. famous flag when diana died there was controversy because the flag wasn't lowered but it was never lowered for anybody. it's a flag that goes up when the queen is at her home. magnificent sight. >> almost mid evil. it's wonderful how the wind is. kaing it and showing it in its full glory. it doesn't happen often. a flag like that only flies on major state occasions which this is. >> even for you guys who have been knighted and tapped and bestowed a great honor to watch that it was quite something, wasn't it? >> it was extraordinary. we do it best. >> we do. >> let's go to richard qwest. she's 86 years young. she had a rock concert cert at home last night.

unlike queen victoria who needed help getting out of the carriage. she looks good. >> here we have the queen getting out of the carriage. 86 years old. let's watch. >> presentation from the household. and the other carriage now arriving as well. this is the last we'll see of the queen before she appears on the balcony just an hour or so with senior members of the royal family now going inside.

duke and duchess of cambridge and prince harry. they will be the ones that will be on the balcony with her majesty. that's the last we'll see of the queen for a while. probably kicking off her shoes for a moment having a cup of tea or whatever while she gets ready for this amazing balcony appearance. here in trafalgar square, the people will now start to move and start to try to get down the mall as far as they can. a mad dash to the palace. you'll have a million brits surging at high speed up the small to get the best vantage points because in 15 minutes the queen will lead her family to the balcony. we'll go for a short break and be back after this.

>> it's great. you're looking at live pictures from buckingham palace. the queen is now inside the palace. we're waiting for the big balcony scene that will come very shortly. you'll see in the cannons here blasting out the famous gun salute to the queen on the diamond jubilee.

extraordinary scenes. to be this close is quite something. you have never seen this. >> i sat here with an iphone on live tv shooting my own video. it's tremendous to be this close to the queen in this open carriage and just walking in here for us to get in and anyone to get in this morning, we were clearly going through metal detectors. security is intense. i have gotten a lot of questions through twitter, a lot of people have been wondering how are they affording all of this because certainly this country has seen its issues with austerity cuts and crisis but it's important to underscore while this is 10.5 million pounds in cost, it's privately funded and taxpayers flip the bill for security. >> i think it's worth pointing out this is all moving quite fast today. there's a reason for that. it's called the british weather. we've got a great map of what was going on earlier. i suspect the organizers were looking at very carefully which is the impending rain moving

into london at a high speed. everything has been speeded up today. >> it's ahead of schedule. >> it's ahead of our schedule. for american viewers, schedule. >> so as we look at these live pictures as we begin to see the crowds -- >> do we have the weather map. >> you can see the weather map and you can see the rain if we can go to that. >> that blue blob. >> it's moving in about to swallow the entire area so they all got together and thought we were not going to be beaten by the weather. so david frost, this is the queen at her best. she can even drive the weather. >> absolutely. absolutely. this has been a triumph these three days over the weather. this is a real british summer with sun but with rain as well. >> that's what british summer means. a fickle forecast, my friends. >> this has been a triumph over all of the elements and this is the latest triumph coming up now

wherever they are coming from now. watch out for them. they are coming. >> we are hoping for the flag pass. the weather needs to hold off another half hour or so. we could see the great air displays that we can put on as a country. this is what i love most. it's like the january and july sales outside. the british public realizing it's time to get to the palace fast for the balcony scene. they are charging on mass up the mall and soon right behind us it will all be -- i have to say the skies are closing in. there is a dashing. >> there we go. the beautiful royal standard meaning she's in residence over the palace. >> i don't want to say the words and go to a break.

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diamond jubilee celebrations. very exciting behind me because the crowd about a million brits and tourists obviously flooding down the mall to get to the palace where very shortly we'll wait for the queen to walk out on that famous balcony with her family and salute her subjects, her people, the people who sir david frost for the last 60 years have revered this woman and today is a great day to thank her, isn't it? >> great day to thank her. also it's a great day and great time in her popularity. she's always been popular but today one senses that this is a real peak of acclaim for her. >> after the death of princess diana, there was a definite drop in the popularity for the monarchy and questions began to be asked about whether there would be a monarchy going forward. we can't help but thinking a few things have happened to change that. william and kate and royal wedding and so on and also this celebration has really energized

everyone's attention again and made people realize how lucky we are in this country to have a royal family like this. >> absolutely. and it's played a big part but also i think back to that crisis at the time of the death of diana and that very memorable live speech pulling things together that the queen made. >> being a grandmother first. >> she had no crown, no tiara, she spoke and she said as a grandmother and it was a remarkably moving speech which reconnected her at a difficult moment with the people and you can have all of the pomp and ceremony you like, there's a moment when the queen will stand there waving down at a million people in front of her and both the queen and people owing each other a great debt. >> and last night again at the end of the concert, i mean, she was clearly moved close to tears

and really moved. >> when you watch these things on television, we watched it all around the world here, you get a sense of what it's like. when you are actually physically here, that moment when the household cavalry led in the royal carriages was really quite magnificent. brooke, what did you think? >> one of the questions i have and i know we have to go to break but to the ladies, you are one of princess diana's five bridesmaids. describe to us what that feeling is like standing on that balcony with all of the crowds of her people. she was the people's princess all below and the significance of who exactly gets to step out on that royal balcony. much more from our diamond jubilee celebration live here on cnn.

welcome back. the crowds are beginning to fill the mall here right in front of buckingham palace. and somewhere down there, we have becky anderson surrounded by all this. tell us where you are and why these people want to see the queen. >> reporter: hi, good to see you guys. and as the bands make their way down, we've got a slew of people here. i have to say in inimitable british fashion. as soon as this area is open

here, people will dash towards the gates. just a couple of friends here today who have come down to enjoy the festivities. good stuff? >> absolutely. >> reporter: you're really enjoying it, are you? >> yeah. >> reporter: what are you looking forward to now? >> the queen coming out on the balcony. >> reporter: it's wonderful to see the bands going past. did you see the concert last night? fantastic, good stuff. the mad dash will be on, i'm pacing myself. >> just watching one of the marching bands here at the palace.

let's get a look at this. you don't see this very often and we'll never see another diamond jubilee again. let's soak in a little bit of the atmosphere. ♪ ♪ ♪

>> just look at the crowds and you can just hear the band. you probably can still pick up the band over our microphone. but you can just feel it all around, all these people, thousands and thousands, perhaps a million, surrounding buckingham palace as we're all waiting for the big moment. there's this huge balcony over our shoulders where we will see the queen and her closest members of the royal family. here you go. and we're moments away from that. i want to bring in -- >> look at these crowds. look at the scene. you just don't see this anywhere in the world. >> we're waiting for the big wave. no kisses today. that was last year during the big wedding. want to welcome in the bestseller author. thanks for braving the weather.

and we have india hicks and katie nichol. the significance of who we will be seeing out on that balcony, it's the closest of the royals, yes? >> it should be the duke of edinburgh who's not here. the duchess of cornwall, the princess of wales. the duke of cambridge, the duchess of cambridge and prince harry. this is difference from the golden and the silver jub lees. this is a slimmed-down appearance. it's all about the line of succession and the queen is sending her heir and her other heir out there. >> these are the rock stars. let's be honest. the royal family has -- there are a lot of you. i think what we're seeing today is the rock stars of the royals. and they are rock stars. and the queen right now pound

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welcome back to london. we are moments away from the big moment of the queen's diamond jubilee celebrations. we have with us india hicks. you've been on that balcony. what are you doing behind the curtains? >> chatting. catching up on the gossip. and drinking the homemade lemon refresher.

the footmen will open the glass doors and the rock stars, as you say, will be beginning to make their way to the front and everybody just knows who's going to be out there. there will be a gentle push at the elbow. but standing on that balcony and looking down at thousands upon thousands of upturned faces is extraordinary. but what's so extraordinary is that it's very unusual to see peaceful crowds. so often we see rioting crowds or football hooligans or crowds protesting. >> you and i had a little disagreement about the merits of queen elizabeth in the standing of great monarchs. i believe she may well be the greatest. after diana's death, there was a possibility the monarchy could have come to an end. now you see these scenes and you think they've bought themselves another generation. but the queen as a role model to the british people, talk about that. >> i was thinking about our disagreement as well.

if it hadn't been quite so wet and cold, i might have been more generous and less republican. but i have to say to you, i think that she's a fine, fine woman. she's a magnificent englishwoman. she's certainly an example to particularly her generation of how to be a mother and a grandmother and a really hard-working woman. >> keep calm, carry on. how many 86-year-old women with their 90-year-old husband in hospital would be out her performing ceremonial duty as she is and looking like she's enjoying it or trying to. she has an extraordinary stoicism. you saw it in the second world war when she went back to work. ever since, that is the essence of the queen and the queen mother when she was alive. they just get on with it, don't think? >> yes. i don't think we'll see her like again, actually.

it's part of a whole generation which puts aside personal feelings and indeed maybe goes so far as to deny personal feelings because they're doing a job. >> interesting you bring up the stiff upper le lip. i want to bring richard quest in. he was saying in days and weekends like this, it's such a rarity to see an outpouring of emotion among people in the uk. richard, in all your years covering the royals, i know you camped out for princess diana's wedding, how does this fall on the historic spectrum? >> reporter: oh, it's way up there. diana and charles' wedding when i slept outside was one of those events. the queen mother's funeral, the royal wedding.

it's an event. it takes something to actually jolt the british into showing emotion, whether that be for good or for bad, whether it be the great or the minor. but it does take something. and then, as we saw with diana, as we're seeing today, once that emotion is released, lord help anybody else who gets in the way of it. >> richard, you can see behind us now, we can feel the crowd beginning to advance. it really is a thrilling sight because some people don't understand what all the fuss is about. but the reality is a million people marching up the mall to buckingham palace to see the queen is a big deal. the reason it's a big deal is it is one of the few great monarchies left in the world. you're seeing the validation of that monarchy through the people who the monarchy serve and the people of the monarchy. and it's a great union.

i believe the monarchy is stronger today, much stronger than it was ten years ago. i see a real resurgence in the monarchy in this country and that is tangible. >> i agree with you. i think what we see today and last year with the wedding was a real return in interest in them as a family and some people that one could really admire and enjoy watching. but i still think that the danger that they are in is they are part of celebrity culture. and i think the moment something goes wrong or somebody does something wrong, we're going to see the fickleness of public taste. >> you and i have worked in the british media for the last 20 years or so. the reality is i think the temperature has changed. >> listen, it's changed. >> it's much less confrontational, much more celebrationa celebrationary. >> this day, camilla would be

there, people would have -- >> people have had to change and modernize. i know what philip was saying about celebrity. but actually the monarchy needs to embrace the new age. if it stays stagnant, it risks being left behind. >> they've always been celebrities. the question is how do you behave? >> regally. >> you behave exactly as the queen have. william and kate have been exemplary in their behavior. >> i think now your seeing a much more stable -- >> the queen has been a celebrity for 60 years. >> help us understand -- forgive me for coming from the united states -- we vote upon our presidents. this is someone who is above the law. she doesn't create or pass legislation. that's left for parliament. she is almost like this

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there it is. the empty balcony. any moment it will fill up with the most famous people probably on the planet, the queen, prince charles, camilla parker-bowles, prince william, prince harry. catherine will be there. penny, you've covered this family for a long time, as long as i having probably.

what do you think of all this? >> i think it's just a great endorsement for the royal family, isn't it? >> i feel like they've been energized to a new level again. >> they have, they have. and this family are not here because they want to live in this lovely palace. they're here because we want them. and i think so often they must get disheartened by what they read, the criticism, they cost too much, they have -- >> it always enrages me. the royal family doesn't cost us anything. they bring in billions more from tourism and everything else. half this crowd are probably from around the world. they don't cost us anything. >> they cost us something like 68 pence per person per year. >> i will pay it willingly. i'm fed up with the whiners and moaners. >> you know prince charles. he spoke last night at that circle right behind us, of course, speaking -- getting the chants from the crowds that unfortunately his father is in the hospital, he's ill.

how difficult do you think it is for him to step up, speak on behalf of his mother and also now we see him today riding along in the carriage here to the palace and how difficult it is with obviously this lack today, missing prince philip? >> i imagine they're all very worried about prince philip. but i don't think there's any difficulty in him stepping up. this man has been training all his life. he's now 63 years old. and he's been preparing for this. no, he will do it really well when the time comes. >> a professional? >> yeah. and it's going to be a very moving moment for the queen, even though she's done this a number of times. even for her, the diamond jubilee, to get to this stage now is a really special accomplishment. >> incredible accomplishment. and i think there's a renewed energy there. i see a real twinkle in her eye, a spring in her step. and i think that's because of

william. >> how so? >> well, i think in all the years of the diana -- charles and diana marriage problems -- >> it was a rocky '90s. >> it was. and now she can see that william has totally got it. william went through years of wishing he didn't have the h.r.h., trying to forget it. saying to people, don't call me your highness. just call me william. he's really embraced this -- >> i think the whole wedding for william was a tipping point for him. i think he realized then that his destiny to be king wouldn't be as gruesome as he feared it would be. and i think he found in kate the right woman. >> i totally agree. as soon as you have that team member with you -- that's what we see with the queen and prince philip. we're seeing that with william and kate. >> and she is fantastic. i think he found the bride who has got everything you could possibly want.

i think she looks fabulous. her behavior is exemplary. >> she's graceful. >> but she had what diana never had. she had eight years of practice. eight years behind the scenes to get used to all this. diana was thrust into this as a 19-year-old girl, a kid. i think it was all too much for her and too much for the family. this time around, you get a sense of, we've been down this path before. this time, mid-20s, much more -- >> she's also a much steadier character. >> and she does her homework. she does her work. >> absolutely. >> what does she have to do? >> she does her homework before she goes to open a hospital, before she meets the president of somewhere, she reads up on it. >> she goes on the internet. they give her briefing notes. she's on the internet -- >> and also here's the big thing for women around the world, i believe when william and kate have a child, even if the firstborn is a girl, she will be

queen. and that is a shift. >> the act of succession -- >> it would have had to have been a boy. now we can have a queen. if they have one child, it's a girl, she will be queen. that is a big step forward for everybody, i think. >> whoever is the holdest will be the next monarch. i think women are particularly well-adapted to doing the sort of work you have to do. as a monarch. >> there is a pattern of the queens being the stable ones here and the guys sitting down a bit. >> especially when you look at the monarchy we have now, which is very much nurturing and very much communicating and very much being a figurehead. we don't need anyone to lead any armies. >> my godfather is not going to be happy with this conversation. he's going to make a very good king. >> he's a much maligned character. i think prince charles is a

great guy. and whenever i've met him, i found him charming, intelligent, self-aware. and camilla, talk about a great woman. you see, charles was almost compelled to marry diana when his true love was camilla parker-bowles. >> but it seems it's taken time for the public to evolve along with that line of thinking. and now to see him with camilla in the carriage -- >> here's the secret. camilla never gives interviews. >> there's that. but she's also incredibly charming. if you've met her, she manages to -- she sat along side the queen today and she was obviously friendly, obviously warm, perfectly deferential. she never pushes herself in. she has a remarkable personal dignity. >> you've interviewed many, many people around the royal family. the trick i think is less is more. the queen mother always had this wonderful phrase, never explain, never complain and never be heard speaking in public.

this was her template. this allowed her to basically have endless long lunches and nobody gave her stuff because she was the queen mother. she did what she had to do. the queen never gives interviews. i don't think that william and kate should give many interviews. i think less is more. >> i don't think they will. i think william is modeling himself on his grandmother. >> yeah. >> and he -- >> keep the mystique alive. >> and keep the personality at bay. >> here's my question. because the queen has never and will never give a formal sitdown interview. i know she keeps a diary. don't you just wonder what this queen will be writing at the end of all these days, what she writes in her diary -- >> and most of the world is watching right now. let's not rule out the interview just yet. i am available.

you want an interview? i'm your man. i've lived here most of my life. >> who is the biographer around here? >> you are. >> thank you. but those diaries are totally private. they will just be factual d day-to-day events in her life. it will be much more factual about what needs attention and what she has done that day. >> you've met the queen a few times. what is she really like, away from all this stuff? >> very witty. she's got an incredible wit and she's a brilliant imitator. the queen imitated the fujian warriors but with the most incredible amount of respect. she would never make fun of

someone. she's just a very good imitator. >> speaking of diary, you were reading your mother's diaries, your mother was the queen's ladilaidy in waiting. she went with the princess to kenya before she learned her father passing of lung cancer. your mother wrote in her diary about waking up in the middle of the night -- >> yes, she said she had been waving in her sleep because she had done so much waving on the trip. >> imagine how many hands she's had to shake, millions. >> with the gloves. >> plus the gloves. >> here's another question. people have been tweeting me, what does she have in those handbags? anything? >> yes, the essentials, the lipstick. a safety pin in case the slip

ever fell. and there's the hook, a very famous hook that keeps the handbag up off the ground. >> an "s" hook. >> it really is. and the handbags are designed to be very, very light with an extra long handle and it's on the arm for so many hours. >> her latest biography described her heels. she has the famous sort of square heels. >> sensible shoes. >> so that she can stand. >> i heard she never eats spaghetti bolognese in public. the poor queen is never allowed -- and she's behind those doors. it's all pasta, bolognese behind those doors. >> she was unrecognized on a

far-off island in australia. a boatload of people came out and saw them and they said, have you seen the queen? and she came out and said, i saw them go that way. >> the royals actually love when they're part of something huge and something goes wrong. nothing horrible, but something out of the ordinary because everything is so perfectly planned and manicured and they love it when something goes a little awry. >> my mother was in nairobi, there were only two pairs of long white gloves. all the ladies who were waiting to be presented -- the one in front had the white gloves on. she'd go forward, graciously and hand it to someone who was put the gloves on. >> just to remind everybody what's going on. we're waiting with breathless anticipation for the balcony

scene where queen elizabeth will come out to celebrate the diamond jubilee with the immortal balcony scene. they will be out soon. and the great news is the weather incredibly after all the forecasts has held up. even the queen is susceptible to weather. but today it has turned out to be lucky. if it rains now, the british public won't give a damn. >> look at those clouds. >> it is raining now. but the public won't care. the royals are in the palace. they're safe. they'll be dry and the public won't care. >> the big blue blob, to quote you, moving in on london. but hopefully not before we see the queen and the royals. >> let's talk about the historical context of this. people i think have made a false assumption the queen may one day abdicate and rush through william and all this sort of thing. that's never going to happen, is it? >> no, totally false assumption.

it's not the way her monarchy work. it's, the king's dead, long live the king. the reigning monarch must die for the next one to inherit. and you simply cannot go leap-frogging a character that you think is not going to be quite as popular as the next one. once you start doing that, why stick with the house of windsor? and if you don't stick with the house of windsor, you're into elections and then -- the great thing about the monarchy is it is a unifying factor in the country. the minute you have politicians or -- and elections, half the country wants the person that's on the throne or the sitting president and the other half doesn't. so there's always discord. and the great thing about these is we have no choice. >> the queen, i'm sure, has incredibly strong opinions about all sorts of stuff but we never hear them. she's very nonpartisan when it comes to politics.

it's important for the monarchy to remain there, isn't it? >> it's her duty. >> we have a problem with your mi mike. we will come back to you when we have fixed it. penny, on that historical front, it's very important, i think, that we don't allow the monarchy to get politicized. >> yes, i think it is. it would be unacceptable in today's climate. but the monarchy does have power. it has moral leadership. and i think that is what is -- william and harry, the pair of them, are fantastic leaders. >> my brother-in-law actually

was one of the colonels in charge of training william and harry at the royal military academy. my sister used to have to welcome all the royal royals and the middletons and everyone else. but they said the boys were great soldiers and never wanted to be treated any differently than the others. they never asked for favor and never got any favor. they are very well-rounded young men. that's a great tribute to the royal family. they are so relatively normal. >> prince charlmost boys of the they were would be absolutely thrown by the death of their mother and would carry it as a sor rewith them all their lives. and the boys have fond memories of their childhood but they've managed to come through that. >> charles, much maligned. after diana died, those two boys in their teenage years must have been a horrible road --

>> i think we have movement. >> any moment now, we are told, the doors will open. >> this is a -- >> >> bursting at the seams of your british pride. >> i hope i'm seeing a twitching hand. >> what do you think they've been doing these last few minutes? kicking up their feet -- >> they've been watching cnn. breaking live coverage around the world. i can definitely see something going on there. >> my mother, who has spent a great deal of time with the queen and is very close to her, always says to know her is to admire her above all else. and i think that that today is -- >> i think that's right. the queen, i don't think, wants everyone to love her. she wants them to respect her and respect the monarchy for what it provides. >> i'm not sure that she wants them to respect her. i think it's the office.

>> the doors opened. >> there's the queen. the queen is coming out on the balcony. this is a great moment. >> look at her. alone at first. wow.

>> you see the crowds' heads will turn. >> here we come. watch out for the fly-past, the royal air force fly-past, right there, coming into the palace. >> you're going to see the royal air force deitschi. this will be pretty spectacular. they're going for it. the queen will get her flyby.

this will be quite something. >> you can hear it.

>> did you see that, the red, white and blue above? that is what really made her smile. >> we had spitfires and hurricanes and all sorts of stuff flying over us. it made my spine chill. >> i got goose bumps. >> i'm so pleased for the queen. the flyby is such an important part of these events. ♪

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>> fantastic scenes there as her majesty, the queen, took the salute of millions of her subjects outside the palace on buckingham palace. penny, what a moment. what a moment. and such a streamlined moment. >> my spine is tingling. >> charles, camilla, william, kate, harry. >> flanked by her boys. >> yeah, flanked by her boys. and the women in their lives. >> and the women in their lives. >> who are very important to them actually. and i think she recognizes that more than anyone. >> india, what did you think? gut reaction to what we just saw? >> immense pride to be sitting here and so close and feeling very blessed. >> it was emotional, wasn't it? >> very, very emotional. imagine how she feels.

how many times she's been on that balcony and she must be missing her mother and her sister but more so prince philip. >> she looked really moved to me, philip. she looked to me like she just took a moment because she was slightly overwhelmed by the whole thing, which i haven't seen before. >> it's going to be one of the key moments of her entire reign. she's had some great moments on that balcony. there was a big crowd out in the rain just for her. it wasn't anything else, it was just to say hello to her. >> and the crowd were going bananas, weren't they? >> in 30 seconds, william -- i have to wonder what william standing up there is thinking. >> i think he's feeling huge pride for his grandmother. he admires her enormously. he's the future. >> one day it's him.

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diamond jubilee and the great finale there of the balcony scene with a streamlined reflection of the very greatest of the royals right there. really moving, touching scene. and the public behind us still here soldiering on through a bit of rain, not much. but the queen look really touched. mark, what did you make of what we've just seen? >> my wife is russian. and she said, there is no country on earth that could do this other than the british. and everything's changed for me now. i never used to -- these things used to go over my head when i was younger. used to report on these things. they were fantastic spectacles but i never appreciated the significance. we have becky anderson somewhere in this huge, swirling mass of people on the mall. becky, can you hear us? >> reporter: yes, i do hear you. the scotts guard are riding from

the buckingham palace. you see the gate here. we ran down with the crowds here. we've all been waiting. it's getting a little bit loud but nobody cares, do they? what did you enjoy most about the day? >> i enjoyed meeting the queen. >> reporter: no, you didn't. you saw her on the balcony, didn't you? >> yes. >> reporter: i don't think our microphones are working particularly well. but i know that everybody here has absolutely enjoyed themselves tremendously. come and join me, my love. this lady has come all the way from perth. back to you, piers. >> thanks, becky. a little noise going on here.

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what did you make of today, richard? it's beyond historic, it seems. >> reporter: i am drenched once again and i couldn't care less. when those planes came overhead, the mood here in trafalgar square was phenomenal. it was as good as the golden jubilee and, frankly, it was one of those days that remind me why i am proud to be british but also to look forward now to welcoming the world to london for the olympics next month. we've proved we can do it. bring them on! >> fantastic stuff, richard quest. zane, you we -- >> one of the things that strikes me the most is the whole poetry of the last four days.

back on terra firma with the horses and the carriages, the queen is one of the most favorite monarchs over the others. it was pretty amazing to watch. >> max, you've been so very -- >> being modest here. turn around, piers. there you go. a double whammy. they've got piers morgan as well. >> just want to keep piers in check. >> i told you i wanted to be king. i'm halfway there. >> max, what did you think of this? >> i have to say, it's interesting how you talked about how slimmed-down that balcony moment -- i had a big briefing with the palace recently and talked about how william and harry look ahead, they look at themselves as a team and kate as a team because they know in future, it's not going to be this huge, massive royal family. they're going to be the core of it. and they need to work together as a team. and i think for those two up there, a big moment for them to

look out knowing it's just them there. >> for anybody who hasn't watched all the coverage today, tonight on my show "piers morgan tonight," 9:00 p.m. eastern, we'll have a wrap-up of the best moments. it will be a spectacular thing. it's been -- brooke baldwin, it's been -- >> here. thank you sir. >> the new queen of cnn. it's been a special few days. >> it's taken me a few days to wrap my head around these millions of people coming out in the rain in horrid conditions to see this woman who's been the head of the state for 60 years -- >> we should salute these people. >> don't turn around again. >> these people are what makes britain what it is today. they are through rain or shine, the greatest people in the world. >> we're going to break. we'll be right back. c'mon dad!

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welcome back to buckingham palace. final thoughts here. a couple of updates. one is that prince edward has been to see the duke of edinburgh. but great news, prince philip is feeling much better and has been watching the jubilee celebrations on television, almost certainly cnn. and the second thing i have for you is that president obama has made a statement saying the queen has set an example of resolve that will long be celebrated. becky anderson, final thoughts -- >> thank you very much. i started in the rain on sunday as did max. we finished in the rain on this tuesday. but i think it's been a roaring success. it's been fantastic. down in the crowds this afternoon, just jubilant. >> i think it really has been.

we've come here to celebrate this for four days. it couldn't have gone better for the royal family. even if you're a bit cynical, you look up and you see a sea of great people. >> stop turning around, piers morgan. >> they love their queen. >> they built on last year, they built on the wedding, reaffirmed themselves. the monarchy is strong now, not just the characters within it. >> absolutely right. and zain, last thoughts? >> i think this has really been a moment for the british people to come together to celebrate in a time of war, recession and deficit. the queen has become a real symbol that gives everyone hope. >> and now a look back. thank you all for having me, by the way. and now a look back at what the day has been, this diamond jubilee. >> thanks for joining us. ♪

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