in 97, i was reporting on the death of princess diana, and that was just extraordinary crime. outpouring of, of shock and grief. and at some point such the also anchor at the time monica has learned a lot since then i'm has changed a lot. even queen elizabeth, the 2nd i tried to become a little bit more touchy feely if one day or even say that she did express some emotion. i and that's been a, that was a major shift in the monarchy. and this is, this is going to be another major shift in the monarchy as we move to child. 3rd, um, we will see i'm fairly sure him continuing to, to learn that lesson of showing a little bit more of his personality a little bit more of his humanity. part of the massive appeal of clueless 2nd was that she maintained this facade very rarely allowed anybody to see and a thing of herself as a person. and that was the has come supplementation of her as person into monarchy

. which i think has also done a great deal to serve the monarchy and to maintain as, as long as is it's, it's been there for ever. and as you know, this feeling of permanence. i really was through her ability to be everything to everybody because people could project really what they wanted aunt to see on to her. and some people saw from loving a grandmother. other people saw this very stern, steady person who it is that can be defined by duty. and this is going to be interesting change as we bury the one monarch and, and eventually crown the next. where does britain go? what does, what does person do with this monica? and move forward into the rest of the 21st century? we can see that the thousands of pete people lining the mouth. many who have been waiting for more than a day to watch this procession to watch the queen the queen's casket,

make its way through london to westminster hall. and many people have been telling that story is talking about their memories of queen elizabeth the 2nd. she was well known for taking her work very seriously. she was, she worked as we know until just a couple of days before her death, where she met britain's new prime minister appointed britons, the prime minister. and she travels widely around the u. k. around the world. missing people. and many people have mentioned how, how down to us, how friendly, how pleasant she was, and how interested she was in then their stories,

when we can see the emotion in people's faces. here they say good bye to queen elizabeth hanna, this week of morning. and of course, the funeral on monday, these events have been planned for years. the queen was 96 when she died. and can you tell us a little bit about the, the preparations for this really quite momentous. and then as, as he said, they've been people in preparing for this for years and years and years. um, you know, the most extraordinary down to the most showed me detail in terms of things like

how board the black bands around the soldiers arms. i've read summers a 3 and a quarter inches. you know, this kind of attention to detail and yet this massive event that is being planned that has been planned on, you know, throughout the u. k. and it had a name operation, london bridge. and there were various different plans that have been drawn up for various different members of the monarchy. should they die? but yeah, if you've got this silence and i, i don't know whether you can tell here, but i read today that flights going in and out of he throw, we're going to be diverted. heathrow airport just outside of london. yeah, we're going to be diverted so that there noise which you normally kind of here as a background part of london life doesn't disturb this, this event, you know, to day move, move cream from one place. the next. and i think the huge,

the huge planning that's gone into it. i mean, obviously you have to figure out where all these hotels can apart from way we're going to pull the horses and all that kind of stuff. but it's very important for the british establishment to be able to proton at the drop of a hat and this massive event with millions of people involved literally an app and, and to be able to do that to be able to show that things are not i have not been destabilized, this is part of this transition to be able to put on this massive event to be able to deal with, with these people to be able to, to handle these soldiers marching. all these, these guns that be firing later on in london bridge, i believe the official name. yes. enormous. a bit, a bit very important for the, the monarchy, the kind of body politic and the church to come together and to show that they as the british establishment have things in control when particularly this royal dash

in this upcoming royal funeral. real and lynch pen that joined all these 3 elements of the british establishment together has gone, and it would be a terrible sign to that control to that continuity if things will not work very well. so they will be doing everything to make this work properly. i think there's even one to dish and where the gun, the gun carriage carrying the coffin will be pulled by sailors on their feet. because at a previous world funeral or pill previous royal possession of a coffin. some of the horses spooked and ran off. and there was a bit of disaster than the navy had to come in, sailors had to come in and pull that for the carriers themselves. and so acknowledging that building that into the new tradition is also part of this flexibility of the british constitution. and the british establishment, which is to take things that went bit wrong,

build them into the next edition. and there it gets kind of in a smooth over, becomes part of what we want to see. and that, that is the flexibility of the british constitution as the flexibility of the british establishment and the british people. it'll be interesting to see what these people who are watching now. a lot of people say they want to be there to see history. um, it's a curious thing it's it's, it's an amazing show the interest so. so very what next? it's also a very bonding moment. i think. i mean there have been royal funerals just last year, prince philip the queen's husband. and just shortly before his 100 birthday, the queen mother 20 years ago. but of course the queen's funeral was always going to be the big event. and it was always going to bring crowds and crowds of people from all over the u. k. from abroad as well, who as he,

they want to come and be part of this moment of history as the casket, making its way down the mouth. again, the procession being led by king charles queen's eldest son, now controls the 3rd with his 3 siblings, princess anne, prince andrew, and prince edward. and then all said king charles as 2 sons, prince william and prince harry also worked walking in that procession

window last thursday. the age of 96, spite her age it was quite unexpected. and in these last days as being a real national morning, people have come together. she was brought from balmoral castle in scotland where she died to edinburgh, where again thousands of people lined the streets to pay their respects in a very moving moment when her children afford children stood god around her coffin

in the cathedral in edinburgh as people members of the public file true to say their good byes. she was then flown down to london. they spent last night in buckingham palace amendment for the royal family to be together for the last time to learn more the loss of their mother, that grandmother their great grandmother. and today's procession. queen elizabeth the seconds last journey from buckingham palace through the streets of london to westminster. who bless you, the lions state for 4 days. ah,

would you say prince harry now married father of 2. again, bringing back memories of when he was 12 years old and he and his brother, william followed his mother, princess diana's casket through london. since the queen died and prince charles immediately became king king charles the 3rd upon her death. and he, as, as tradition, has travelled quite a lot in the last few days to various parts of the united kingdom. to tell us a little bit about that, how important is it for him to connect with her with his subjects?

because of course, the queen was incredibly popular, wasn't he? does he have the same kind of popularity or can he build it up? he never has, and he's had quite a bump and popularity of the last few days. i believe the figures went up from about 20 percent approval rating in may to more than 60 percent now. so this has been a good start for him if you like, as king. yeah, no. his he was in scotland with his mother when she died. unstated scotland for a while, and then also been to northern ireland, which is very, very difficult, very interesting place for we'll see you've, you've had effectively a civil war been coming on there for a long time, a. and at the core of that is whether people in northern ireland wants to stay part of the united kingdom or what they want to join the rest of island. that's been

a massive problem for very long time, arguably started by the world. he back in henry the 8th day. we don't need to go all way back there. but yeah, and, and, and him going, there was very important to try to signify his desire to keep united kingdom united. and you know that there have been rumblings in scotland for a long time. if i were the scotland wanted to leave the united kingdom and to go to live, that movement in northern ireland has always been there. and so him going physically, personally with his pin consort to go there to receive the consolations from various different politicians, represent representatives of all different kinds of people that was very important too for him to do and very significant. i'm a moment for him to do that and it's, it, it is important you've seen in scotland, some of the in sure protests know. everybody's talking about how everybody's,

you know, in the u. k. is united in grief and sorrow in support for one. but that's close because the people who feel like that all the ones who take to the streets and who will be lining the streets of london. the people who feel differently and not to be found on the streets very often. and you saw some minor protests in scotland and in london. and there's been very heavy criticism of the police handling of fat people making, you know, very minor protests voting and per sign saying not my king and being arrested for it. there will be a time very soon to have a look into why that has been happening because it would seem extraordinary that in this, you know, mature democracy that we can't tolerate a few people saying, well maybe we should think again about them on a k, even at this time, and this is this time of transition web apps, those questions do need to be raised and you see the flags that we just saw. the

flags are on, on the mall there of various different commonwealth countries, i believe. and that's another source of people now questioning ok will be we be stuck with the queen. she embodied the monarchy for us. and therefore, you know that there was really no questioning or very little questioning of it that now may, will be the time. or when, when can charles really kind of takes office that where may well be the time when countries follow the example of barbados and decide to come out of the camo mouth to no longer have a british monarch as their head of state which does on the face of it, for many people seem extraordinary anachronistic. the procession has now passed down the mouth, passing close to trafalgar square on its way to horse god's parade, and then on to white will beautiful weather for this.