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the record i worked with in the newspapers, americans that when you're feeling altogether, you'll realize that culture just another way of living. are you ready to meet the driver and then join me, right? let's do it on b, w. ah ah ah, this is d w. news ly, from berlin, welcome to our special coverage of the death of britons. queen elizabeth, who died on thursday. at the age of 96, her son and successor,
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kicked king charles. the 3rd is now making his 1st address with the mother was an inspiration. an example to me and to all my family and dish we owe her the most heartfelt that any family could oh to their mother for her love, affection, guidance, understanding, and example. queen elizabeth was a life well lived, a promise with destiny kept. and she is mourned most deeply in her passing that promise of lifelong service. i renew you all to day alongside the personal grief that all my family of feeling. we also share with so many of you in the united kingdom, in all the countries where the queen was head of state in the commonwealth and
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across the world. a deep sense of gratitude for the more than 70 years in which my mother, as queen, served the people of so many nations. in 1947 on her 21st birthday. she pledged in a broadcast from cape town to the commonwealth to devote her life, whether it be short or long to the service of her people's. that to was more than a promise. it was a profound personal commitment which defined her whole life. she made sacrifices for duty. her dedication and devotion of sovereign never wavered through times of change and progress through times of joy and celebration. and through times of sadness and
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loss. in her life of service, we saw that abiding love of tradition together with that fearless embrace a progress which makes us great as nations. the affection, admiration and respect, she inspired became the hallmark of her reign. and as every member of my family can testify, she combined these qualities with warmth, humour, and an unerring ability always to see the best in people. i paid tribute to my mother's memory and i honor her life of service. i know that her death springs, great sadness to so many of you and i share that sense of loss beyond measure.
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with you all when the queen came to the throne, britain and the world was still coping with the privations and aftermath of the 2nd world war. and still living by the conventions of earlier times. in the course of the last 70 years, we have seen our society become one of many cultures and many faiths. the institutions of the state have changed in turn. but through all changes and challenges our nation and the wider family of realms, of whose talents, traditions, and achievements i am so inexpressibly proud, have prospered and flourished our values have remained and must
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remain constant. the role and the duties of monarchy also remain as does the sovereigns, particular relationship and responsibility towards the church of england. the church in which my own faith is so deeply rooted in that faith and the values it inspires. i have been brought up to cherish a sense of duty to others and to hold in the greatest respect the precious traditions, freedoms and responsibilities of our unique history and our system of parliamentary government. as the queen herself did with such unswerving devotion, i too now solemnly pledged myself throughout the remaining time. god groan smith
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to uphold the constitutional principles at the heart of our nation. and wherever you may live in the united kingdom, or in the realms and territories across the world, and whatever may be your background or beliefs, i shall endeavor to serve you with loyalty, respect, and love. as i have throughout my life, my life will of course change as i take up my new responsibilities, it will no longer be possible for me to give so much of my time and energies to the charities that issues for which i care so deeply. but i know this important work will go on in that trusted hands of others. this is also a time of change for my family. i count on the loving help of my darling wife,
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camilla. in recognition of her own loyal public service since our marriage, 17 years ago, she becomes my queen, consoled i know she will bring to the demands of her new role. the steadfast devotion to duty on which i have come to relies so much as my air william now assumes the scottish titles which have meant so much to me. he succeeds me as duke of cornwall and takes on the responsibilities for the dutch of cromwell, which i have undertaken for more than 5 decades. to day. i am proud to create him prince of wales, to were so comely, the country whose title i been so greatly privileged to bear. during so
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much of my life and duty with catherine beside him. ah, new prince and princess of wales will, i know, continued to inspire and lead our national conversations, helping to bring the marginal to the center ground where vital help can be given. i want also to express my love for harry and megan as they continue to build their lives overseas. in a little over a week's time, we will come together as a nation, as a commonwealth, and indeed a global community to lay my beloved mother to rest. in our sorrow, let us remember and draw strength from the light of her example.
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on behalf of all my family, i can only offer the most sincere and heartfelt thanks for your condenses and support. they mean more to me than i can ever possibly express. and to my darling mamma, as you begin your last great journey to join my dear late papa, i want simply to say this. thank you. thank you for your love and devotion to our family and to the family of nations you have served so diligently. all these years may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
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that was britons, king charles the 3rd making his 1st address as sovereign and talk to me more about that speech. i'm joined by hannah clever. here in the d. w studio. hannah and that covered a lot of different points. he talked a lot about the promise of life long service. that if dedication, i talked about his mother who made sacrifices for duty and her dedication never way . but what was it that stood out most for you in? what can charles just said it was a really well structured speech. i must say. i mean, he started off talking, seeing the praises of his mother talking about her life. well lived talking about the life long service, and he immediately then said, i renew that vow to you. so he's putting himself very much in her tradition. and
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then he slowly shifted the speech then to himself, talking about how he, he says i to now solemnly pledged myself to uphold the constitutional principles of the heart of a nation. that i thought was very interesting. he's been quite an activist prince, he's written letters to various different ministers in the past, urging them to take particular positions on policies that he's particularly interested in. he then, a few years ago in interview i looked at recently, said that he would stop this, can't campaigning, saying that it wouldn't be constitutional recognizing that as monarch, he actually has to keep out of politics. and he did actually just say didn't he, my life will change. now he said my life would change now my family's life would change now. but when he then said, i solemnly pledged myself to uphold the constitutional put principles. a heart of nation. i think that was that would i, i would take that as being a message,
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like okay, i'm going to step away from these politic home interferences that he has in the past made. he also then kind of moved towards his family. he specifically mentioned his darling wife, camilla, and then made a couple of announcements about his son and heir william saying that he was making him prince of wales. which is interesting. that was the job that he had for for very long time. and that makes her kate williams wife, the princess of wales, which is of course, the new price wales. right. and i don't know how they would feel about that. but how will people feel about that? i mean, the princess of wales, an enigma. and now we have a new princess of oil. there hasn't been a princess a while since diana died. and it's difficult. it's
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a big title to take her on. i mean, kate is massively loved by the pressed by the media by people. so if anybody can carry it, i guess she could, you know, she often weighs this big blue sapphire ring that was diana's that william gave her . so. so yeah, and this is, this is really a shift in urgent situations within the royal family. this is them. now stepping up, he did mention harry and meghan, which you know, he had to do would have been astounding if he hadn't. and then i think this is also interesting and also maybe sets a different tone. he became quite emotional towards the end. we met his darling mamma and his late darling papa. and him showing some emotion, i think, is the modern monarchy and that again is a generational shift. that's something that his mother would probably know after we did see before, didn't we? him really animatedly reaching out,
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shaking people's hands immediately, being with people. so showing a very different way of being a monarch than his mother. can i back to what he was saying about his family as you mentioned, and he's becoming king a. he's in his early seventy's. do you think that he will include his son, a prince williams and you prince of wales in carrying out his duties as morlock in the coming years? i think it would be very smart if he was to do that. i'm william and kay are very popular and you know, there were generation younger. so i mean, he is in his early seventy's as he said, he can't be running around, you know, the world doing probably all that he might want to do. so it would be smart it to bring them in to the kind of modern squad of the new royal family i'm. i'm fairly confident he will. they, they carry with them such a bonus of popularity, of energy, of modernity that it would be crazy for him not to kind of hold them close. and i
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think they might say that will be coming back to you in just a moment. now, a memorial service commemorating the life and reign of queen elizabeth is being held at saint paul's cathedral in sun central london. and we're going across live now to that service of this vocation. we celebrate her love for her family, her commitment to duty, and her calling to create unity and concord. at the heart of the commonwealth, we prayed for the royal family as they mourned the loss. we pray to for our most gracious sovereign lord, the king, the placing all his trust in god. he too may rule.

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