huge, they have so much to lose shattering the glass ceiling. women in architecture dis, this has to be really, really good. starts september 30th on d, w. ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. it's the end of an era and a nation is in morning. tributes are being paid following the death of britons, queen elizabeth the 2nd. the crown now passes to her eldest son charles the day after announcing the queen's death, buckingham palace has become the focus in london for people paying their respects

to the woman who became the world's longest serving monarch and flag the lo, if the half mouth in many countries around the world, a state latest pay homage to the queen's enduring devotion and sense of duty. ah, i am rebecca writ is welcome to this special coverage of the death of queen elizabeth the 2nd warm tributes being paid around the world to the british monarch whose died at the age of $96.00. she was one of the world's longest reigning monarchs and heads of state, her death mains. her son charles, has now succeeded her, is due to address the nation in his 1st address as king later this evening. ward latest has been offering their condolence says u. s. president joe biden said she was a steadying present, said

a world of constant change, and will be hearing live from germany. chancellor olive shalt in just a little while. meanwhile, in england itself, buckingham palace has become a focus of national mourning with they gathered in their thousands to pay tribute to their queen. it's lost, the country knew would come. yet the sense of shock and sadness is palpable and profound. with oh none, da swan queen is here. she's feared, repass there. we've always look to some oh, is the suck due to spring valley sector and pledge true light country. and she lived in this country with great reverence and duty of respect and honor. i just don't know another like from low to royalist but i think she was

a mother. and she she was amazed. one ish she's being here today. i'm on to. so for specter, she just was leading as an inspiration for women. you know, the bedrock of british public life for the last 7 decades to know the country and the commonwealth have a new king and a new history to be made up, his government's priorities. but today is a time to reflect to mourn the death of her majesty. queen elizabeth the 2nd. oh, that's good to correspond at being at moscow. she is in front of buckingham palace in london. beg it, give us a sense of the mood there today on this very momentous occasion. how are people reacting? rebecca, what i notice 1st, when i arrived here little earlier this morning is that there are a lot,

a lot of people here and they're still coming. but it's quiet to people are quite grief stricken because this is a monarch who had a very long life. ah, but they are definitely they are definitely morning and people are coming here just to be part of this occasion. so somebody, i've spoken to a gentleman he's, i've asked him how he's feeling and he said, well, you know, it's hard for me to put it in words, but it's something that's sort of deep inside. so he was touching his own heart and, and this that, and many people have known queen elizabeth for all her life. and just to come to terms with the fact that she's not here anymore. it is by way people are coming here and are, are paying their respect is certainly a sad day for many you whether you're a royalist or not, it's very symbolic. big it talk us through the next steps for the u. k. and for the royal family, what's gonna be happening in the days and weeks ahead alt had

has not declared an off morning for the royal family with which will extend several days after the queen's funeral were still awaiting confirmation as to when. ah, queen elizabeth will be lay to rest here when how the ceremonies will play out. but what we know for sure is that today is the 1st day we're king. charles will meet the prime minister. that's what we're expecting. and we also expecting him to give his 1st address, broadcast address, and it is a day where throughout the country there will be gone, salutes are, there will be charged bells ringing. so, so the country, every one will know on throughout the day that this is, is a special day for the u. k. and indeed, not just in the u. k, but around the world. there will be these gonzo. lizzie's who people, i think around the world will see this as, as a, a definitely is special day when we don't have queen elizabeth elizabeth the 2nd

any more asked her monarchy in the u. k. b, get new, been living and working in the united kingdom for many years now share with us or some of your personal memories of the queen. well i haven't really met decline for a longer period of time, but i have been at events where, where she attended and it was really striking that she, steve, she was this really very small lady dominion to figure. and yet she had obviously all the attention and she was lighting out the the people's faces were wherever she went. and i spoke to one lady our her mother was a cleaning lady and it's dates so well back into to the seventy's. i think the queen was there to open a building where this lady's mother was the cleaning lady and she made a point of not just speaking to all the dignity king to this lady bowed an older brother. and that was really, i think, very typical of,

of what many people have told me, right. interactions with how that she that she was really somebody who made a point of speaking to everybody and just reaching out to everybody and making it a rapport with every one. me personally, i've lived here in the u. k for 2 decades now and she's always been there when i married when i had my children. so it will be really difficult to imagine the life in the u. k. without the queen. and now be again the queen died it balmoral as we know in in scotland. she had her body is still there remains are still there. what's going to be happening there? people are laying flowers there, aren't balmoral paying their respects? what will be happening there in scotland in the coming days? we do know the exact choreography, but we're expecting that on there. the queen's body will stay at bol morrow for a little while, and then it, it will be our transfer to bed. that

dear against unfortunately, i'm going to have to interrupt you there. we seem to be having a little bit of trouble with al line to beg, at mass in london in front of buckingham palace that we will be coming to her later in the program. on a speech on her 21st birthday, the then air to the throne, princess elizabeth promised to dedicate her life to public service. it was a promise she kept until the very end. just a few months ago, breton, mount her 70 years on the throne with platinum jubilee celebration. earlier this week she appeared in her last official photo and she appointed her 15th new prime minister, less trust at all moral. here's a look at how the news of her death was broken to the nation. a simple letter posted at the gates of buckingham palace informing the public that the queen had passed peacefully at her scottish estate. and the country now has

a king away. as the news broke, people were already gathering outside the palace grounds. many had been waiting for updates on the queen's condition. been flags fell to half mast. also at 10 downing street flags were lowered. prime minister lids truss just days into new job addressed the nation. we are all devastated by the news that we have just heard from bow 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 modern britain was built. our country has grown and flourished under her reign earlier in the day, members of the royal family had rushed to be by the queen's side,

several members flowing into aberdeen airport before making their way to queen elizabeth's summer home in scotland. bout moral, all 4 of the queen's children were there, including the air to the throne, prince charles, now known as king charles. in an official statement, charles said that the family was mourning profoundly, the passing of a cherished sovereign and a much loved mother. tributes to the queen have already begun to flood in from around the world. britain has lost its longest, ever serving monarch a leader who was with so many a cornerstone of stability through 7 decades. joining me now in the studio, cedar is alex of horace whiting. alex, queen elizabeth has herb was on the throne, i should say for 70 years, as we know we were just hearing about some of her legacy there. she saw so much

history in her time in her long reign, reminders of some of the landmarks during that time she met with 13 out of the 14 u. s. presidents to name one. yeah, i mean it's extraordinary, isn't it? when you think that she, when she came to the throne, there was a british empire, britain rule the world. and it certainly doesn't now. and does he say yes, she met 13 us presidents including jeff k, g, f. kennedy. she also, as we saw, an ad was on the throne for 15 british prime ministers, including sir winston churchill, the war time leader. i mean, talk of a completely different era. we saw the berlin wall go up, the berlin will go down the end of the soviet empire. oh, the vietnam war. i mean, where do you, where do we begin? where do we finish? it was next been an extraordinary 70 years that were that she was on the throne and what has developed, i'm in history across the world and incredible. and i think particularly for her,

given the fact that when she took power, it was an written, i had this huge empire and then she had to oversee the demise of that, but still manage what was left behind, which is of course, the commonwealth is truly remarkable. it's hard to imagine another sovereign or another leader in fact, or, you know, anybody really having seeing so much of change during history. of course we don't know what will happen, but you know, it was in quite an incredible rain. but it wasn't won without missteps. was it? yeah, i mean, i think it's fair to say that over 70 years, she and performed very, very well, obviously at the beginning and for most of the decades there was no social media and things of what i oversee get much more difficult when everybody's looking at the absolute intricacies and it's made public across the world within seconds. but there were some missteps, and i think it's fair to say that for example, in 1966 there was this terrible mining accident in wales in which

a 116 children died. and at some adults as well. and although prince philip went there the next day to show his condolence on behalf of the royal family, the queen actually didn't make the visit for a whole week. and so i think there was some eyebrows raised about that. but i think probably the main events really have been would have happened within her own family and those that that was particularly the 990 s. and with the death of princess diana, princess diana, of course, was the 1st wife of king charles. she died in a tragic accident in 1997 in paris. and the queen at the time was in bo morrow. and it took her a week or so i think to come back down to london. of course, everybody was in morning and i think there was a lot of anger at the royal family at prince charles as he was then, but also disappointment with the queen because there was a feeling that she wasn't there to leave the nation. i think a learned from that,

and although she was the queen was never going to change how, how she ruled. certainly i think they look at the role finally became much more receptive to what was expected of them in terms of showing empathy at these times. a big events of national morning. now the queen's son, formerly prince charles, is now the new monarch. are to be known as king charles the 3rd, and he had this to say about his mother. the death of my beloved mother. her majesty the queen is a moment of the greatest sadness for me and all members of my family. we mom profoundly the passing of a cherish sovereign and a much love mother. i know her loss will be deeply felt throughout the country. the realms and the commonwealth, and by countless people around the world during this period of morning and change my family and i will be comforted and sustained by our knowledge of the respect and

deep affection in which the queen was so widely held. royal observers have said they expect charles as carnation to be quicker and smaller than that of his mother. and it's an event he's had ample time to prepare for. let's take a look now at charles as long white to be king. ah, he was done the perpetual prince waiting to be king longer than any other air to the throne before him. charles philip arthur george, mount patton windsor, was born in 1948, the 1st son of princess elizabeth. he was who he is old at his mother's coronation. queen elizabeth the 2nd, the classes from the abbey, consecrated and dedicated to her life work. after attending boarding school and graduating from cambridge universe.