those questions do need to be raised and you see the flags we just saw. the flags are on, on the mall, that of various different commonwealth countries. i believe in that same melva sorts of people now questioning ok will be we 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 were, may well be the time when countries follow the example of barbados and, 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 occasion after torrential

rain in the last few days as people were, were queuing up hoping to secure a place for this, but now we've got some more members of the senior royal family leaving buckingham palace. i think that the queen consultant, that when you print this as the wiles is catherine ha, liam's wife, leaving buckingham palace and making their way through london to westminster hall. and you can hear big ben tolling in the background. there. king charles with fitzwilliam there in the background, portland lay the queen, queen's nephew

ah. the crowds pulling mobile phones trying to get things often as it passes through them 1st to the last time. that's it, that's big. we are fully in the 21st century. everybody has a mobile phone, a smart phone in their pocket, and yet with no tradition and said trees own a house in the 21st century, reaching all the way back in 2000 years, loyal history in the u. k. and yet with these people with this modified by me,

and that's really the balancing act, the king charles will have to manage. now looking at hes, he $73.00. he won't reign to 70 is as his mother did. how much do you think he will rely and work with his son and his wife, the new prince and princess of wales, william and catherine. in carrying out his duties as king. he would be very smart man to keep them very close. although his popularity has had this bump, and he has been an activist prince and has held and publicly held some very unpopular views. and yet william and kate are hugely popular. and you know now that kind of approach in their thirty's, they're now no longer needs to be quite so protected. i think older children now at school. so they have already started sheltering quite

a lot of responsibility and going to a lot of events in representing in some cases i think keep the queen so, so they're kind of, you know, growing into the, into the row. and of course, william will be the next day. so king charles would be very wise to hold them close to bring them into. what he has already promised is going to be a slim down senior royal family. you know, mister squad at the center of this boy family would be the most seen and the most representative. and yet what even kate will be a cool part of that be not to keep them as real central part because they represent the future. he's almost a transitional king because he's become king so late. you know, one doesn't want to speculate how long he's gonna be there for, but it's not definitely not going to be 70 as, as he said. just saying the class, the crowds trapping. we've been hearing that it's been a samba,

a sad occasion, of course, but actually quite a, quite a happy atmosphere. people happy to come to london and to be together for this occasion. paying their last respects and ann and talking about what the queen meant to them. and that's really this extraordinary skill. i think she had was to not show really her emotions, but to be able to connect with people to be able to connect with people on her walk about on her visits carrying out had uses as the mac, and many people talking about their memories of her and the very down to earth way that she had about her being able to connect to, to chat with people and to make them feel comfortable. and this is melissa seconds,

often as it pulled through horse guards and on to whitehall, on its way to the palace of westminster. and let's not forget, i mean, she and her children already kind of ultimate celebrities, to sit, to a certain extent. you know, people read about their personal lives, people devour any little bit of information about any of them at a repay shifts. right. and you know, there were pitches published a few years ago, the queen's breakfast table, and whether you remember, and everybody lost their minds because she had tough where on her table and kind of normal kind of things to eat for her breakfast. and those that kind of drip, drip her little bits of personal detail. and yet as you say, maintaining that kind of facade all duty and you know, keeping that famous, british,

a stiff upper lip. all that kind of stuff enabled people to feel that they had a piece of her in so way. and yet a never enough for them to really question very much about her. and yet you seeing with her children, certainly with prince charles and his unhappy initial marriage to princess diana. that too much was shown and, and people lost respect for them because they fell into that trap of giving the media much more than queen elizabeth ever did. giving them what they wanted and, and yet turns out that's not really what people wanted. after all, it's very difficult balance to strike. the procession crossing was god's parade. and now, moving down, whitehall continued to the house, the parliament and westminster hall, where the queen will line state, followed by a 4 children some a grandchildren acute, including princes, william harry. and you see will say that the connection between the word family in

the armed forces, all of her 4 children, served to some to be ortho, in various different armed forces. most of them have uniforms on prince prince. his hairy and william also served as you see that prince andrew. it's heavy aunt when he falls, wearing their medals, but they're not wearing uniforms for various different, scandalous or less scandalous reasons. they in strips of stay on refix. and so the, and the massive discussion again, you know, discussion of these tiny details about who should be able to wear what uniform in this very militarized march. and you can see them lying dress suits incentive, they uniforms. and again, this family's kind of trials and tribulations carried out in the most public place . ever. a

real sense of quiet and calm. thousands of people watching or we can hear is the military band flip flopping of the horses hooves, and the clattering a sombre, clumping of the people watching the procession goes by. and there again, we can hear big ben chiming in the background honoring the procession. walking past the women of world war 2 monument on their way down to the houses of parliament and westminster. and again, this read it that they're moving along is quite symbolic. think me from buckingham palace to westminster. moving from the royal family from the hospital family to the

house of political terrestrial britain. if you like, giving the body of the queen back to the people of westminster is the house. if the british government wishes to who is where the kings and queens if you have met with politicians and have count continued that deal of a constitutional monarchy of the king or the queen having ultimate power through god they say and, and that giving that power to the politicians to kind of actually guffman the country as a very delicate balance. i hate and so far has worked fairly well. we haven't had a revolution in the u. k for a long time. we should just explain to our views. of course, the houses of parliament is the heart of british politics in the u. k. and westminster hall and the oldest building on the parliamentary estates as played a central role in british history. because it was,

it was in and around westminster hall that the major institutions of the british state grew up in parliament, the law courts and various govern government offices. and this is why the queen will now line state for the next 4 days. and it will be open for 24 hours so people can come day or night to walk past and it better. well, 2 queen elizabeth, the 2nd some people have been saying she was she, she wasn't a queen, she was the queen, the mac, the most people, the only monarch, the most people can remember. she was on the throne for 70 years. she was in her twenties when her father died, a young mother of 2 children. and she was on the throne for 70 years, a time in which united kingdom,

absolutely transformed. it was a time of empire. and in the last 70 years, british society has changed. it's become multicultural and the royal family has had to adapt to the changing british society. see the so just now saluting as it must be the center top which is where read for laid on november 11th every year to commemorate focus 12 of all the will dead. yeah. and that so the queen for so many years went to lay to every wow. last few years and she hasn't been able to because of her

incredible age. and that again is one of those ceremonies that her son has already stepped in in stephanie into tycho's full. huh. that's right. he really has been stepping in over the last few years. hasn't he because even though the queen always had a bright smile in the last photo, we saw her just a couple of days before her death, very bright smile, looking in great spirits. and yet she has been physically ailing in the last few years she had been and prince charles, now king charles the 3rd was stepping in to support her at quite important occasions over the last couple of years. and so he has been, as you say, a king in wasting, ready to take on his responsibilities and to season king charles has made a real point in the last days since his mother's death during the traditional

ceremonies and events i have taken place in the last few days to make a point this, he takes this responsibility and this sense of duty that his mother absolutely displayed very, very seriously. and that he is ready and willing to dedicate himself in the same way as his mother did to his role as sovereign. absolutely, and he's made the point also that he's gonna have to step back in some of the things he was able to do as print because his prints. um, you know, he had a lot of a fuel authority and a lot of publicity and a lot of the privilege but didn't actually have that kind of heavy weight. the literally the crown upon his head. and so he said that he's gonna have to take a step back from some of his more activist positions where he was, you know, for some years writing letters to politicians against the constitution, against protocol writing letters to politicians and ministers, asking them to,

to change policy on issues that he really cared about, like the environment like architecture and he's acknowledged that he's gonna have to stop doing that now as king, it's very important for this constitutional monarchy that the monarch doesn't intervene on, on day politics. that's really not constitutionalist not allowed to happen. and, and he's acknowledged that he has mentioned a few times in various different speeches that he's made, that he will rule constitutionally. and that's really important for, for him to be seen, to do the procession. now, coming up to the houses of parliament getting closer to its final destination, westminster hall in the center of the u. k. that we see the queen's children and 3 of her grandson's prince william, prince harry and peter phillips, whose the son of princess anne.