♪♪ good day, i'm katy tur in london alongside jose diaz-balart. and as the world settles into a new realty that nine out of ten people on earth have never known a sovereign on the british throne not named elizabeth. and now in just two hours, king charles the iii, new monarch in 70 years, will deliver his inaugural address. here he is this morning shaking thegathered hoping to catch a glimpse of their new king. and his upcoming speech will be part of what has been a momentous day across the united kingdom. including this booming tribute in hyde park right next to

buckingham palace. a royal 96 gun salute, one for every year of elizabeth's long momentous life. [ gun salute ] >> also echoing this morning over london, the iconic bells of westminster abbey ringing out along with the bells of other churches across the nation. [ bells tolling ] all of this marks the first of ten days of national mourning. all part of the long planned meticulously orchestrated order of events following the death of the queen. and this hour, we will be bearing witness to all of these historic moments, but also looking back on queen

elizabeth's extraordinary life and what is ahead for her son, king charlesiii. you are in front of buckingham palace which we just saw in the last hour king charles iii when he arrived, was able to meet with and briefly talk to so many people. thousands of people that are there. >> reporter: you are really hit with it as soon as you get off the plane. i arrived this morning and i spent the morning walking around this city. i spent the morning watching the bbc. you can hear the emotion in people's voices. the emotion in the leaders of this country. their voices. multiple prime ministers, former prime ministers spoke remembering their time with queen elizabeth. and some of them sharing funny being a neck dot anecdotes abou.

and the entire country remembering her as vast majority of their people have known as their queen. and i think it was best summarized, first conversation i had this morning, i got into a cab and the driver told me that it was a sad day here. and i asked him how he felt and he said it is like i lost a member of my family. he came here after fleeing the war in and the public took care of him, and he said it was all her. that generosity of spirit that allowed him to buy a home, rebuild his home in kosovo. he said again he felt like he lost a member of his family. with me now here in london is

keir simmons. it is remarkable the number of people that have shown up here. i mean, the crowds we see behind us have been flowing through all day, the tributes are pouring in. what does it mean as a british citizen? >> many of us have still trying to come to ti terms of it. and that emotion, you are getting on with the day this morning and distracted, discity, and then you stop and it hits you. about him as powerfully as it did yesterday.him as powerfullyd yesterday. the queen is dead. and you have to pinch yourself that king charles is walking in to buckingham palace as king. people are chanting god save the king. and within all of that, he is already setting out the kind of king he wants to be going around talking to people, trying to

connect with the public. so so much is happening at once. the private side, emotional side, it is something of a roller coaster. >> and it must be so difficult for him. he is losing his mother and at the same time this is a moment that he's been waiting for for his entire life. he will be the oldest british monarch to take the throne. and all those things -- >> yes, the royal standard, which signifies that the monarchy is in the poll has and starts flying at full staff, not half-staff, because he is the king. and so you don't mourn a monarch who is alive. the monarch never dies is the principal of that. but you're right, he's had years to prepare, decades to prepare.

so he will try to remove some of the controversies to try to put those behind him. and one of the questions will be whether or not he can do that. and he know that the british public are the ones that ultimately decide that and that is why you saw him first thing he did out talking to the people. >> and is the public ready for him? i know this has been a long time coming and on top of people's minds for the past year or so at least and certainly after that last photo we saw between her and the new prime minister liz truss. there was questions about her frailty. i don't think that anybody though thought that it would come that quickly. >> it happened so quickly. >> but are they prepared to take into the death of queen liz best and long live king charles? even saying the words king charles, you almost have to stop yourself because you are so used to saying prince charles. >> and such a difficult question to answer because it is 70 years that most people have not been through this. when i saw him stepping off the plane here in london, it

reminded me of the images of the queen landing back in london when her father had just died. a great poet says history rhymes and it does. but a different case now. the queen was taking to people's hearts because she was on wrung, because she went through the war. and how do you follow that. it is extraordinary when you think as you mentioned that she is there, appointing a new prime minister, just days before she died. and i mentioned that she went through the second world war. she stayed at her post until the very end. and so for king charles, it is a hard act to follow. >> she was living thoirs an his . you talk about when her father died and she saw winston churchill in tears and what is moment it was.

just 25 years old when she assumed the thrown. >> throne. >> yeah, from truman to biden with every single u.s. president with the exception is of johnson. just an extraordinary life of service. i want to bring in tim and katty kay. for the people that don't live in the uk, never had a monarch to deal with, what does this moment feel like? not only the loss of the queen, but the transition. >> jose, i'm probably one of the very few people that you will have on air who actually remembers a little bit of life before the queen. i remember the coronation of the queen. in 1953, i was just a little kid can, but the excitement then of the new era, i think that in a way will be matched this time

once we've gone over the grieving for this moment. king charles is taking over at a time, you know, when this country have a lot of problem. maybe not as bad as it was in the immediate post-war year, but the nation is quite divided. and economical crisis. and he has made it his job through his work as prince of wales to try to help people who are less advantaged in our society. and i suspect that when we hear from him in a couple of hours time, that may be part of his message, that he wants to unite people. so we kind of have to move on from national grieving. we heard keir talking about it. it is hard to believe it has happened. most people -- the queen has been part of the nation dna as we'ved is said.

but we have to look to the future. we have a new prime minister and a new king meeting for the first time. meeting right now in buckingham palace. so we have to hope that the success from queen elizabeth will be something that be ultimately inspire and hopefully unite or help to unite this nation that are really very difficult times. >> and in just two hours, we will hear from king charles as he addresses the nation and we're just hearing tim reference that. what more do you expect that he is going to say? >> i thought it was really interesting watching those first pictures of him as he left his car and shook hands with the public. and it was the first time of course the british public had seen their new king. we had never seen him in this role before. we got a glimpse of him in the car, but never seen him out and about. and he looked -- he is gleefing

his mother. and she only died yesterday. so that is an enormous weight on him. but despite that, i was struck by the sort of positivity that he was exuding to the crowd. he was smiling with them, he was chatting with some people. he had his foot forward, his head held high. and even in this moment of grief. and i think that maybe that is the charles that we are going to see in the next few days. somebody who is stepping in to this role, who has been preparing for 73 years who has thought about what it means to makes transition from the prince of wales to the king of the united kingdom. and he has spoken about that. so we know that he has been thinking about it. and that is what we'll be looking to when he gives this speech. what he says actually, i don't know. we haven't had the script. none of us know what he will say specifically. but the tone, it will set the tone for his monarchy. and at least for this period of

succession. i was really struck listening to the former prime minister as you referenced it in parliament and a couple of the swee speeches f boris johnson were really moving when he said that we were lulled into thinking that maybe she was eter natural. eter natural. but we hoped that it would never come. so there was some sense that maybe she was different. we knew she have wasn't, but she had been with us for so long, that maybe we felt she was different. and now is the moment to remember her, but i think today for charles to pay tribute to his mother and the fact that there has been this clean succession and that he has stepped out of that car and shook hands with the crowd is in a way in itself a tribute to her. she prepared her son for this moment. and she prepared the country for

this moment. and it will be really interesting to watch over the next weeks and months how he takes on the mantle of monarchy. >> and he is already filling those responsibilities already. liz truss, i understand she just arrived to buckingham palace for her meeting with king charles. the world is so different from the time when queen elizabeth came, you know, into being a queen. do you think a monarchy will change in any way? it seems that the relevancy of the monarchy is in question. and to use tim's term, you know, when someone becomes part of the dna of a nation or of a peoples, it is a lot easier to see the relevance. but that changes now. >> the queen had an advantage.

she came to the throne at the age of 25. and she was a king's slate. the country didn't know her as an adult very well. she had not expressed opinions about things. she had not invited criticism on things. she was so young and more reserved. prince charles becomes king charles as a fully formed adult at the age of 66 with very strong public opinions about everything from holistic medicine to architecture to the climate. and he brings all of that history, some white call it baggage, with him into the monarchy. and i think that it will be a balancing act between not letting the public knowing too much about them, the mystique of royalty, but also being

accessible and adaptable. and so now how can he combine those two things. even queen elizabeth wrestled with it but managed swrel that kind of balancing act between those two competing forces.weswt kind of balancing act between those two competing forces.lswr that kind of balancing act between those two competing forces.lswrel that kind of balancing act between those two competing forces. that kind of balancing act between those two competing forces. it will be a challenge for king charles to have that balancing act and to keep the monarchy relevance and adaptable and changing for the modern world but also maintain the mystique. >> katty kay, thank you very much. appreciate you both being with us this morning. outside the gatespalace, th expected to pay their respects. we'll look at how people this in london and around the world are rememberin the queen. and also king charles iii is executing his new royal duties

as the nation mourns. he will have to steer the monarchy into a new era. but first we remember the legacy of britain's longest serving monarch an and the impact she made. >> i declare before you all that my whole life whether it be long ordevoted to your service.

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the uk outside of buckingham palace where still a lot of people are coming to show up and pay tribute. even showing up now in the rain opening their umbrellas. queen elizabeth has sat on the throne for 70 years and most brits have not lived with another monarch on the throne. here was princess elizabeth on the balcony in 1927. she was just over a year old. and on the other side, there is the queen on that same balcony for her platinum jubilee this summer. >> and in her 70 years on the throne, queen elizabeth led her country through major events. the fall of the berlin wall, northern ireland conflict, swearing in the first female prime minister margaret thatcher. brexit and the covid-19 pandemic. let's bring in now former itv

news editor and also our presidential historian. queen elizabeth is the secondei. how central is she in the lives the british public? >> well, completely central. it is difficult really to imagine almost life without her. she has been such a permanent figure. i think that at tracts, the loyalty of the queen was largely based on the fact that she didn't directly herself get involved in all the controversies that we've talked about. she didn't talk about public expression. somebody yesterday made the point that in an age of constant chatter, silence is golden. and i think that that is what a lot of people felt about the queen. she was just a long lasting

preference so much so that it is hard to imagine life without her. she worked with 14 prime ministers. liz truss would have been her 15th. and that goes back to winston churchill. she saw britain through numerous crises, economic, international in that time. and of course she headed a family that had its own fair share of crises. and generally speaking as far as the public was concerned, her performance was practically flawless. >> you know, we were talking about that on my show yesterday, tim, i believe that you were there for that conversation. the fact that she didn't wear her heart on her sleeve. everybody didn't know what she was thinking at all times of the day like we get with some politicians.

you can see the wind and rain has picked up. i believe a couple of my scripts have just flown out. and part of her reserve though was the fact that she didn't get into politics. at least not publicly. she might have had political conversations with prime ministers in private, but publicly you didn't know where she stood. and i was struck today by what liz truss called the nation's greatest diplomat. she mentioned ireland, south africa, and also you could add germany. michael, tell me about what she meant as a diplomat for the uk. >> here she was this great world figure probably when she became queen in 1952, how many models were there of strong women as word leadead world leaders for to fold. she was improvising all the

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but until the 1980s, there was still a distance. but that is gone from the british monarchy and you compare that to king charles who has been famous from the day of his birth and from all sorts of his well publicized controversies. so he will not have the benefit that she had of establishing herself before the modern world of social media and tab tab employeds and he was he will. >> and just the role of the importance of a constitutional monarchy.and he was he will. >> and just the role of the importance of a constitutional monarchy.he was he will. >> and just the role of the importance of a constitutional monarchy. i'm thinking of juan carlos in spain where he was able to stop the coup elizabeth did have rol that were important. and how does that translate into king charles? >> well, he will have to build the same kind of authority that

she did. and he may well do it, we'll see. it will take a while. because right now, people are just missing his mother and that will be very tough for him. but, you know, we americans as you both know, we fought hard to get our independence of a king. we didn't want a dictator or a king or a monarch. but one thing that we lost by that is our president is both chief of state and also the political leader. and as a result, we don't have a unifying benign figure like the queen or king charles the way that the british do and that is something that we lack. one thing we think that we know queen elizabeth ii, but well don't at all. she kept a secret private diary that she wrote in we're told almost every day. that will not be reese released probably for decades.

and so almost we know is what we have seen in public arrest heard what other people had to say about her. one day we'll get to see the diaries and records of meetings and only then will we really know who this woman really was. >> they don't have a presidential records act. >> they do not. >> but certainly if we do, we would stand to learn a lot about her, her role in this country, but also just how times change throughout the decades. she was literally living history. she lived through so much change. and you were mentioning one of her former staff members who wind out and told stories about her and her sister. that was -- >> right. >> and that was in a magazine here in the states. and you don't do that, you don't

pull that -- >> that's right. excellent. >> gentlemen, thank you very much for joining us. still ahead, king charles iii will deliver a message to the united kingdom in just under two hours. what sort of king will he be. and she is the only british king most have ever known. from yankee stadium to the gates of buckingham palace where people are gathering today in remembrance. >> we've always looked to her. it is a sad day. r what everyones doing on their phones? they're investing with merrill. think miss allen is texting for backup? no she's totally in charge. of her portfolio and daniel g. she's building a greener future and he's... running a pretend restaurant. and phil? phil has questions, but none of them are about his portfolio. digital tools so impressive,

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rows and rows of flowers have been placed at the gates reminisce sense of what we saw after the death of princess diana. a memorial that will only grow over the coming days. molly hunter is also here in london, she is near big ben speaking with londoners about this moment. i imagine you are getting a lot of emotion. >> reporter: a lot of emotion. and we went out trying to find young people to speak with. there are so many young people in this modern diverse area especially here in london who all had very strong feelings. universally they felt a wave of grief. and the uk has had a rocky last few months. there was the pandemic of course which most countries felt un unsettleed coming out of, but a new prime minister, inflation which is making life very tough for people.d coming out of, but new prime minister, inflation

which is making life very tough for people. there is a cold winter coming. so we asked what all the change was feeling like on the back of look zing queen elizabeth. take a quick listen. >> we never thought the queen would like pass away.sok zing q. take a quick listen. >> we never thought the queen would like pass away.k zing que. take a quick listen. >> we never thought the queen would like pass away. zing quee. take a quick listen. >> we never thought the queen would like pass away.zing queen. take a quick listen. >> we never thought the queen would like pass away.ing queen . take a quick listen. >> we never thought the queen would like pass away. obviously she was 96. >> and everything is uncertain so we don't know what will happen. looking at the king right now, we'll have so many changes, we have to change passports and money and all everything. and we don't know how the new king will -- >> reporter: so interesting. people who might have mixed feelings about the royal family or the monarchy, universally still love and respect the job that the queen did. and we asked the people what they want to hear from king charles iii. and when he addresses the nation. we know it is a pre-recorded

address. but what they wanted to hear. and everybody said they want him to talk about a slimmed down monarchy, about bringing his much more popular son prince william into the fold much sooner. and they hoped that he would reach out to young who care about climate change which is an issue that as prince charles now king charles has absolutely championed. >> i think that you're seeing a lot of queenists out there today. molly hunter, thank you very much. now king charles iii after living as the longest serving heir to the throne, now the oldest british monarch ever to

become kick. king. and join us now is our panel. and michelle, what can king charles expect?and join us now . and michelle, what can king charles expect? >> for starters he can expect a number of raised eyebrows and a certain cynicism about whether or not he will indeed be able to fill his mother's large shoes. although she was small in stature, she obviously left an enormous vacuum for the world. and we do know that charles has long championed a stream lined monarchy. and some of this is because frankly survival of the monarchy likely depends on that. the taste for having a large hereditary monarchy that costs millions of taxpayer dollars has long since faded.

and so making that transition from past to present and as understand noting that he is the oldest monarch to take the throne is a challenge. and i also heard mention of people, the public wanting to see william front and center and that is something that i hear a lot. and in fact i heard many people even up until yesterday certain that in fact charles will hand over the throne to his popular heir prince william and convinced that this was a reality. and, you know, there is no way that he would ever do that. he has indeed been waiting his entire life for this moment. and i think that you see in this footage outside buckingham palace that we're looking at right now, this is a man who is ready to step in to the role he was born for. i think although he is mourning his mother, you see a real confidence there. an, you know, the amount of time he spent with the public this morning and the closeness was very deliberate. it was an attempt to really show

that he is ready to connect with his new subjects. and i think that we're going to see that in the speech today as well. >> and i was talking to someone a little earlier today, i asked how they felt about king charles. and they gave me kind of awry smile, and they said i'll have to see him every day because he will be on our money eventually. indicative of the fact that he wasn't super into prince charles but he did say that he believed that the country would rally around him. he has had his share of controversy over the decades, most notably through the '90s and marrying camilla who is now the queen consort and she has since been more embraced by the british public. are very going to see a period of rallying around him because of the death of his mother and the fact that he is a new king, yes, but will it take a little bit more and a little longer for

him to patch the still very deep wounds? >> i think undoubtedly it will. you know, obviously he has had 70 plus years to prepare for this moment. but i'm not sure if the british public is prepared. i thought the voices that you just played from the streets of london were so telling, this idea that people were not ready for the queen to pass away. well, she was 96 years old and one obviously could have expected that at some point she would pass away. but i think for many britons, she has always been there. she's been there for the vast majority of britons. and the idea that this extremely unifying figure this person who had really knitted the entire country together is gone now and that she is being replaced with someone who has been more divisive, someone who has made his opinions known on a wide variety of matters, there is a real question there about whether he can do what his other did. can he bring this country together. and at a time when the country

is truly divided. i lived in the uk for four years and at a time of extraordinary tumult where there was a scottish independence referendum, two general elections. and of course the brexit referendum. and these were matters that really divided and in a very birth and personal way britons from one another. but the queen never took a stance on any of those matterses. she was someone who everyone could safely rally around.matte. she was someone who everyone could safely rally around. so i think that charles has to prove that he can be the same unifying figure. i think that he will accomplish it in the short term because there is this period where they are mourning and embracing. but it may be quite a longer term even though he is a older man, whether he can keep people united. >> his parents lived quite a long time. and there might very wellen another scottish referendum.

also the commonwealth and whether there will be an us a tlalian referendum as well. they are not as big fans of king charles as they were of queen liz best. we know that he is passionate about climate change and letter action. and will he be more willing to be out there when it comes to the policies that he feels passionately about, policies that he feels threatens our entire exist tense? >> i think yes in terms of climate change. this has been the driver for his public work.

his father and son, all three men have been focused on this for a long time so the point that i don't see him walking back any of them. i think certainly he will shift into a more neutral role of monarch in other areas. but in terms of climate change, i think that is a place where we can expect to see him continue to advocate for policies that he feels are for the betterment of the future. and i also want to say in terms of the goodwill that we were just speaking of, it is also worth noting that the queen was of a generous -- the greatest generation. so because she had built that throughout decades beginning as a young girl during the blitz and the courage that the royal family showed then, and then serving herself during world war ii as an army mechanic, i think that that is the other piece that charles unfortunately, you know, does not bring to this.

right? i mean, it is fortunate of course not to have lived through times such as those, but at the same time, he is building on a very different foundation than his mother did. and i think that is a challenge for him. but i do feel that xrk is something that he will bring forward into the future and in fact william will as well.is so that he will bring forward into the future and in fact william will as well. >> and she gave her first address on radio when she was 14 years old. and the 13th of october, 1940, speaking to the youth of the uk. talking about the need to keep solidarity and the future was going to be bright. that is just part of the history of our entire world. michelle, grif, thank you for being with us. queen elizabeth really was a person who lived through much of our recent history. bombings in world war ii, she

reigned during the tense difficult times of the cold war. she led her people through the darkest days of pandemic. >> better days will return. we will be with our friends again. we will be with our families again. we will meet again. >> next, how the queen provided a steady hand through 70 years of global unrest and change. and how in the process changed the world itself.

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queen. >> she visited 117 different countries during her reign. she was in kenya in 1952 when she found out her father had passed. and she was the first british monarch to visit china in 1986 and the first in a century to travel to ireland in 2011. her last royal tour was in 2015 in malta long side prince philip. and join us now is douglas brinkley. she is probably one of the most well traveled heads of state. what impact did she have visiting all those countries and how exactly did it help british diplomacy? >> it was a massive influence. wherever queen elizabeth went around the world, everything stopped. i mean, all the newspapers and roads were blocked and there

were parades and she would visit state capitols and museums. and it was the highest dignitary perhaps other than the pope to have queen elizabeth show up. and msnbc says that she knew all american presidents except lyndon johnson. but she knew lady bird johnson. she came and they had a dinner in 1991, lady bird with queen elizabeth 2. and no trip was more significant than in 1976 when she got an opportunity to be part of america's bicentennial celebration. >> and the dance with president ford. the queen has made historic trips. like her visit to china in '86,

her visit to ireland in 2011. what did these trips mean for the uk and did she have an impact on how things ended up around the world? >> right now they are mourning the death like we are in the united states almost on par with the uk. and she was -- bill clinton had the best line i've read in that she was born into a circumstance, she had no choice of, but she really could have been on her own a cracker jack politician and a diplomat. and that is a rare combination. and nobody really knew whether she was right or left, was she a tory or a unionist. i mean, she was able to kind of go -- enter a kind of zone unto herself. and that made her welcomed everywhere. and so in china, there could not

be a higher honor britain could have offered to have queen elizabeth as representative of the uk. on the down side, it has been difficult. we call the problems with northern ireland the troubles, but in has had the troubles, period, since world war ii. they have been struggling to find a role. are they a friend of the united states and the special relationship? are they about the anglo alliance or were they a european union nation? king charles is having to confront climate change. he is a believer on being the lead. i think with pope francis, he will take a national lead. he will work hand in hand with john kerry, our climate czar. it means so much to him. the problems in scotland right now are very real. there's also a movement in wales

afoot. and ireland is a big question mark. her death leaves a void when it comes to what is the uk of today. >> it is said queen elizabeth's reign paralleled the shrinking if not the -- the end of an empire. douglas, thank you. queen elizabeth was married to prince philip for 73 years, longer than her reign. a look back at their love story and how they transformed the uk together. bubbles so many bubbles! as an expedia member you earn points on your travels, and that's on top of your airline miles. so you can go and see... or taste or do absolutely nothing

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had a love story for the ages. the world had a front seat to their fairytale romance from the very beginning. a romance that aged like fine wine. side by side, the queen and her prince went through a lifetime of celebrations and tribulations for more than seven decades. >> quite simply, my strength and stay all these years. >> it was love at first sight. the queen only a princess in 1939, spotted the dapper and to you -- towering philippe while on vacation and became enraptured. >> she fell desperately head over heels in love. >> like any great romance, the bond was put to the test when he joined the royal navy. their courtship continued long distance. >> it was a correspondence love affair. they wrote letters to one another. >> with each letter, their feelings flourished. until he returned from war and asked the future queen's hand in

marriage. it was the wedding of the century. broadcast around the world in 1947. >> to see their future queen and her husband. >> their quiet home life didn't last long. in 1952, the sudden passing of king george would thrust the princess into the spotlight at 25 years old. she became a queen. from princess to monarch and from wife to matriarch. at the coronation, prince philip bent the knee to swear his allegiance to her. >> he was always quite the alpha male. having to take a step back and follow his wife as she became head of state was a big adjustment for him. >> he gave up his work and stood by her side, making a life together sprinkled with humor. >> tolerance is the one essential ingredient of any happy marriage. it may not be so important when things are going well. but it is absolutely vital when

things get difficult. and you can take it from me that the queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance. >> they were married for 73 years, until his death in april of 2021, during the height of the covid pandemic. the queen having to mourn alone in the church as she said farewell to her life partner. leaving a handwritten note on his casket. >> for me in the months since the death of my beloved philip, i have drawn great comfort from the warmth and affection of the many tributes to his life and work. that mischievous inquiring twinkle was as bright at the end as when i first set eyes on him. >> the queen will be laid to rest alongside prince philip in the family chapel in that grand st. george's chapel on the grounds of windsor castle where the couple spent their last months together. >> that was kelly cobiella.

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