role she played as queen of the united kingdom, but also head of state of other countries around the globe and ahead of the commonwealth. what does her passing mean for the countries of the commonwealth? i'm well i it's, i think it's, i think what carl said was, was important. it comes as a shock and not a surprise. i mean, she was 96 years old. and i think many people have been expecting the queen 2 paths to die within the past few months. certainly, particularly after the concerns of that began really last august over her health when she had to cancel a visit to northern ireland. so i think for those leaders in the commonwealth, of course, it will be a massive blow, a big loss to them, but they were, would have been expecting it at some point. the question really is now, i'm just looking forward a bit how it will play out for king charles will king charles, for example,

a remain head of state of those 14 countries that the queen was head of state of. we already saw just a few months ago, barbados become a republic. no longer wanted anyone in the u. k. is head of their state. you can understand why we know that there are many groups, for example, in australia who do not want ahead of state coming from the u. k from britain. so i think that will be interesting to see what happens, what plays out. we're not going to know that in the next few days. maybe this isn't even the time to be talking about it because it's a period of morning. but it will certainly come into play over the next few months and years as to how can charles this role might change across the commonwealth? because she's a very beloved person. let's talk about his reputation with the people. it did take a heavy hit back when he got a divorce from princess diana and the entire story that followed which we of course

know and been hearing over and over again for the past 20 years. but how was he perceived to day as an over 70 year old man who has waited his entire life to become the king of the united kingdom? i think he's had to put in a lot of hard work to repair the damage that he himself caused. i think it's fair to say with his affair, which was very public at the time with camilla parker bowles, who is now his wife. but at the time he was married to princess diana. and that all blew up and was a very, very rocky time for the royal family. and particularly when princess diana was then killed in that terrible car crash in paris. so i think that he has had a lot to do to repair the damage that has been done. but i think he has done a fairly good job of, for example, stepping up and doing things that the queen has been unable to do. opening the

state, opening a parliament, i'm going to events presiding at events, even the commonwealth event in the summer. in rwanda, he was the person who was sent, the queen was clearly unable to go herself. so i think that he has been taking over roles over the past few years. and certainly over the past few months, leading up to this bart, he knows he has got very big shoes to fill in. it was going to be a very difficult role for him. to try in any way, i live up to the standards that his mother said 70 years of service, 70 years of duty, always putting her role as monarch even. you could say above her family. i'm always putting britain in the british people 1st, and that is now something that king charles has to live up to has to try to

encourage people to support him to come behind him. and we will see how that plays out over the next few months. and years, but now the you so nicely wrapped up her life and her devotion to the people of the united kingdom. i want to take a moment to look back at this extraordinary woman who has truly devoted her life to the people that she was destined to, sir. o, no british monarch reigned for as long as queen elizabeth the 2nd. ah, she was a constant in time of dramatic change. ah, all was disciplined, always dutiful. a life of public service. right until the end. in 1926, elizabeth came into the world. she was not born to be queen. but when her uncle, king edward the 8th abdicated after less than a year on the throne,

elizabeth father was crowned king. his daughter suddenly became the crown princess . g accepted the task and took it seriously. even in her youth, i did have before you all. the high weather, if the normal shore shall be debated, the old service and the service or grace imperial family to which we all belong during world war 2, elizabeth did her military service as a mechanic after the war. she married naval officer, philip mount patton, her great love, ah, one year later, prince charles was born. the 1st of 4 children. ah, in february in 1950 to her father, king george the 6th died. elizabeth replaced him while on

a trip to africa. the tragic news reached princess elizabeth and her husband, while in kenya and the new queen left immediately for london. elizabeth the 2nd was only 25 years of age. her carnation ceremony did not take place until the following year. in june, 1953. the ceremony itself was one of the 1st world events to be broadcast on television, an estimated $300000000.00 people watched around the globe. the queen took the throne at a time when the british empire was losing its importance. many former colonies gained their independence while at the same time, a new global conflict began with the cold war. as queen elizabeth was not allowed to pursue her own political agenda,

but she was the most important representative of her country and head of the commonwealth. 6 in that role, she tirelessly travelled the world in the decades that followed. i at home elizabeth was intent on boosting the royal family's popularity. also with the help of the media. the spectacular wedding of her son charles to diana spencer in the summer of 1981 was the most watch tv broadcast of all time. but when what appeared to be a perfect royal family life began to unravel? the tabloid press was merciless. in the 1990s, the newspapers feasted on the royal affairs and divorces. charles and diana's

marriage failed 1st time and in 1997. diana died in a traffic accident. the world wide outpouring of sympathy was overwhelming, but the royal family struggled to find sympathetic words. she was an exceptional and gifted human being in good times and bad. she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to spot others without some kindness. this was when the royal's popularity hidden all time low. diana's son's princes william and harry did not talk about the trauma of their mother's death until years later. ah, when harry's marriage to us televisions to megan, marco was repeatedly exploited by the tabloids the couple made a radical exit. they officially turned their backs on the royal family,

ultimately moving to the united states there. and they complained in interviews about racism in the media and also in the palace compared to the other members of the royal family. the queen led a quiet marriage. she was married to her childhood sweetheart, prince philip for 73 years. he was an important pillar of support for her, which made the moment of parting all the more difficult. ah, in the spring of 2021, philip died, age 909. owing to the corona virus pandemic, the funeral took place with a very small circle of mourners. elizabeth was alone. it was an image that touched many but only a few days later, she was again representing the country, receiving ambassadors via video conference, and participating in zoom meetings with scientists. and it's wonderful work you are

all doing so great. this is evil. but you say you must like to stay ah, in a world that has changed radically. elizabeth was a constant mainstay ah. committed to tradition, but not closed to the new awe. most of the critics of the british royal family paid tribute to the queen. for her long life in service to her country and to the commonwealth. and let's go straight back to our correspond current asmin who is at buckingham palace in london for us. carl, we're seeing more and more people arriving there at the palace. can you tell us what the atmosphere is?

yet more and more people just showing up the umbrellas is certainly one of those rainy. one denied was saturday. from coming down the buckingham palace. sharing the experience. if you think about most people here, 99 percent of them have never known the burden without queen elizabeth and so this is an absolutely momentous occasion. the sad one. but also one for the book was seen lots of parents bringing their children down here to history. i would describe it is sad atmosphere, but also again, which is written. they're not shocked here and they're, they're, they're, they're not surprised. this was something that they've been preparing for for quite a long time. they knew that they were coming. they just didn't know when it might be. we can see a very large crowd of people gathered in front of the gate, buckingham palace. the flag has been lowered and seemingly every 5 minutes or so.

there is a spontaneous applause. maybe a song or cheering. so everyone here seems to see all saving for all those. and most of you have of course, the morning and the sadness for such love clean things. there also seems to be a bit of anticipation, a bit of, of thoughts. and maybe people are beginning to become ready for the next chapter in this monarchy. and what now scheme charles might bring to this very much is the end of an era, isn't that i bet you've been talking to people there. what do they expect to come from? this new monitor coming in, charles the 3rd. oh absolutely. i think it's almost too soon for people to have those sort of expectations. every conversation that i've had here with warner is when one's in or when foreigners,

it's been about the course. there has been i think the patient about things are missing and take on more of the world responsibility. more of the ceremonial duties just in recent months and years, and i think he's been trying to do more as well as we saw, the queen make an active effort before he passed to start to integrate more of her son and also now williams is now next in line to the throne. so there is a bit of anticipation in and i think mostly people wonder what the next legacy will bring. what in charles will bring the course he's very active with the foundation if you're quite the environmentalist. so there will be some very important things on this agenda. what the queen did, over those 7 years to modernize the monarchy, tried to quell some of the scandals that the family went through to even in later years,

what we've seen is really reduce the size of the oil family that can never be replicated by anyone. she leaves us enormous shoes to fill. there is no way anyone could follow that act that i think no one envies the path to come. things are all now as he takes over following that, those in those steps is very difficult. the people you've been speaking to, what is that they admiring about the queen? well, the queen has been a fixture of this country almost as if she wasn't an actual human being. it's because she'd been here for so long that she would be all the court knew that she would one day this day would come, but it was almost as if she were more nolan. and it was the touchstone, i think, for a lot of people, and especially as this country has gone through so many different pricing, so many different wars,

so many different conflicts. and now in the last week and years with, with the political turmoil of breakfast, with the scandals associated with the former minister boys johnson. and now with a very difficult time with the confidence quite in the country. we've got the energy bills storing with inflation, reaching new, new hiv. and we're the prime minister who by the way, is 2nd day on the job. the queen has always been there and see the loved by so many people in the country and approval rating of upwards of 70 percent for almost her entire time on the throne. it's really impossible to describe what the queen mean. people in great britain, in the united kingdom and really around the world. the best way to describe it is those pictures you're seeing. people coming out on rainy nights to buckingham palace, to pay the respect to share stories, share memories, and to come together and thing and, and bring your wine,

bring your children. i've seen people bringing their dogs down. it's a very communal time right now, and there are a lot of people sharing stories and sharing memory on and con asmin in london. thank you so much for the time being. you mentioned that there are just 2 days ago . the new prime minister list trust met with the queen and there she was officially asked to form a new government. well, earlier today she delivered the statement on the queen's pathing. we are all devastated by the news that we have just heard from ball moral the death of her majesty the queen is a huge shock to the nation and to the world. queen elizabeth the 2nd was the rock on which molden britain was built. all country has grown and flourished under her reign. britain is a great country, is today because of her. she ascended the throne just after the 2nd world war. she

champ, in the development of the commonwealth, from a small group of 7 countries, to a family of $56.00 nations, spending every continent of the world. we are now a modern, thriving dynamic nation. 3 2nd thing, queen elizabeth, the 2nd, provided us with the stability and the strength that we needed. she was the very spirit of great britain, and that spirit will enjo. she has been our longest reigning monarch. it's an extraordinary achievement to presided with such dignity and grace for 70 years. her law, her life service stretch, be all most of all living memories. in return, she was loved and admired by the people in the united kingdom and all around the world. she has been a personal inspiration to me and to many britons. her devotion to duty is an

example to us all. earlier this week, at 96, she remained determined to carry out so she appointed me as her 15th prime minister . throughout her life she visited more than a 100 countries, and she has touched the lives of millions around the world. in the difficult days ahead, we will come together with our friends across the united kingdom, the commonwealth and the world. to celebrate her extraordinary life, time of service. it is a day of great loss. but queen elizabeth the 2nd leaves a great legacy to day. the crown palaces, as it has done for more than a 1000 years to our new monarch on new head of state. his majesty king charles the 3rd with the king's family. we mourn the loss of his mother. and as we bode,

we must come together as a people to support him to help him by the awesome responsibility that he now carries for us all. we offer him all loyalty and devotion just as his mother devoted so much to so many, for so long and with the passing of the 2nd elizabethan age. we asha in a new era in the magnificent history of our great country. exactly as her majesty would have wished by saying the words, god save the king. a heart held statement there by list trust the british prime minister. well, in canada, where the british monarch is the head of state as well. prime minister justin trudeau had worn words for queen elizabeth as well in a complicated world. her steady grace and resolve

brought comfort and strength to us all. canada is in the morning. she was one of my favorite people in the world. and i will miss her, so i'm still still in joined in the studio by alex 1st whiting and can now welcome beg it mass in london as well. good to have you both here, alex, we're hearing so much from leaders around the world. political and spiritual. yes. and just that hearing there from just intruder, i mean, he's actually looked very emotional, didn't he? she was one of my most favorite people in the world. and i think this is the sense that we are going to get over the next few days of just how loved she was not just in britain, but across the world. and you mentioned their spiritual, what we've heard from the pope frances head of the catholic church. and he has said,

i willingly joined all who more in her last in praying for the late queen's eternal rest. and in paying tribute to her life of unstinting service to the good of the nation and the commonwealth. and he wrote that. he said that in a telegram to king charles, just remember that that queen elizabeth was head of the church of england. so people think it's the archbishop of canterbury who is obviously the head clergyman still, that she was the head of the church of england. so i assume king charles must now be the head of the church of england. but the queen was considered a very spiritual person. she took it, she took her face very seriously. and you know, that was something that she was very proud of and would regularly talk about praying and suddenly asking or praying for the well being of the country under authors. for example, during cove it. so i think now that we,

that would begin to hear from church leaders and i'm sure leaders of the faith as well. and that isn't a very important role that the queen played as well. yes. physical presence. you know, important role in terms of being above politics and her has a sense of duty and service, but also i think in terms of her faith as well. and the importance of that is bringing bag it must be a get at. she was a truly beloved character, the world around. what is it people appreciated? so about the queen and, and her style of leadership. well, the german chancellor, olive charles has said it will be her humor that will be missed. and i think that can probably ring true for, for a lot of heads of state, but also for ordinary people when we see photos of her. and when we see i'm footage of her how she interact with people. i think she, she was able to bring

a genuine interest in 2 people. and even when we've looked at his recent footage of her and her doing some zoom calls she, she had the same. she display the same, the same interest and the same curiosity. i think and just giving people li, the impression that she, that she genuinely was interested to connect with them even if they've met her only for, for a very short time. there was one lady i've spoken to, she and her mother was a cleaner, and the queen opened a building where, where the mother worked and she didn't just shake hands with the dignity trees with her people that were the officials. but she really took the time to speak to everybody and including this lady's mother. and they were so impressed that she, that she really, she stopped and she smiled. and she, she had as little interaction with people. and i think that's what she was known for. she, she was really trying to you to interact with people. of course there was

a reserve and she didn't have the no, she didn't poor heart out to every one. but so she, she was, she was really trying to make connections with people that were part of part of the british people to nobody. and you know, the people who are just passing by or we're just visiting where she, where it, where she, she, her was at the ceremony but also with other dignitaries on heads of state. so it seemed that she, she wanted to get to know every one. she lived alive under the public eyes. he became queen in her early twenties. we'd all know her as a representative, bigger but she was of course, also a wife and mother, a grandmother or great grandmother. what do we know about her behind closed palace doors? well we all know, i think it's public knowledge that this family life wasn't always easy. we've had and have or had children going through

a divorce is so. so that must have both caused some, some sorrow for the queen, not all of them, but on prince charles with his very am public divorce and also also prince andrew. so that those were not easy times. and i think in a way that made this family even a bit more relate though they were a family that were, was going through the problems are just like normal families were unruly children that didn't always play ball and, and they made that massive cost. the queen definitely must have been difficult for her. so that wasn't always an easy life and easy in easy family life. but from what she was able to put a for to, to the outside add even with all these difficulties that she was truly facing. she was there and she was doing her best. and she was always there, as this figurehead as this person that represented breton and she never really

wavered from that to through thick and thin really are in the country. she was there and she represented it. and she did her job until the very end until 2 days ago when she appointed the latest, the 15th, our prime minister, that she, that she has encountered. and that's actually another important point that she, that she had, she saw these prime ministers and, and they have described also when they've left office, how important it was from that to, to, to meet her and to engage with her. so she really, she really was there for prime ministers and also for the public. all right, we'll leave it here for a quick break. we'll be right back with more of a special covert. ah, ah, with

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