richard thornton there.t from jenny hill. this city set the world alight 30 years ago. tonight, berlin is still on fire. cheering the wall was loathed, feared, resisted. in the end, it couldn‘t hold them back. cornelia was 11 when communist east germany came tumbling down. i remember also when we could go to the west part, the smelling. i will never forget about the smelling in the shops because it was such an amazing smell, i never had before. in 1961, the world looked on as, brick by brick, east berlin became a prison, its citizens sealed off from friends and family in the west, trapped in an oppressive communist regime. monika was among them. the wall, she told us, tore her family apart. she never knew her grandfather, who lived in the west. by the time the wall fell, he was dead. angela merkel, leading commemorations today, also grew up behind the iron curtain. it shaped her politics, her aversion to borders and walls. but even she admits divisions remain between the old east and west. the revolution was

this dad, richard thornton, spent the summer spending £5,000. do. and i... admit fully that my... judgment was probably coloured by my... tendency to be too honourable. but that is just the way it is. the problem was the fact that once he had been convicted... you stayed with him. i stayed with him. and that‘s the bit that, that, um as it were, i kick myself for on a daily basis because it is not something that was becoming of a member of the royal family and we try and uphold the highest standards and practices and i let the side down. one of jeffrey one ofjeffrey epstein‘s accuses, virginia roberts has said she met you in 2001. she says she dined with you, danced with you at tramp nightclub in london. she went on to have sex with you in a house belonging to ghislaine maxwell, your friend. your response? i have no recollection of ever meeting this lady. none whatsoever. you don't remember meeting her? no emily maitlis joins us now from our london newsroom. i wonder, many people will be seeing and hearing those words for the first time, just if