his whole mission at this point is to continue that stability and continuity of being a cultural, traditional icon for people of the united kingdom to look to for who they are, what binds them together, a national banner so they can act regardless of their own political leanings and backgrounds, interesting separation that exists here but it is very tenuous, very difficult to hold onto these royal lineages. look what happened across europe. don t think those people can name another king or queen of those countries in the world but everybody knows who queen elizabeth was and now king charles is. they are hanging on to something that has been a past vestige of the rest of the world, and a vastly smaller
elizabeth, there was a moment, that they were going to meet with her and they are not going to meet, it is not in keeping with the way queen elizabeth has run thing to keep their emotions to themselves. it is reminiscent of the diana moments, where she started to talk about her own unhappiness. i see parallels in those moments but it detracts from the duty and putting the duty to the country above your own feelings and for some of these younger members their feelings are more important than their duty to the crown and william, charles and queen elizabeth certainly didn t see it that way. pete: we turn to the united states of america, questions over the change in the throne, how the royal family, how king
see their eyes and the straps go over their chin obscuring most of their face and lifted them off and got down on one knee and gave three cheers for the king and it was really an interesting morning. the trumpests blared from the balconies and this is an ancien. will: martha, we believe a proclamation is being read in again and we ll listen for a moment and pop back out. absolutely. [ trumpets ]
separated. pete: it s rachel: it s very, very interesting and the queen, adhering to her christian faith. a lot of people think the king s religion is more climate change. we ll see what happens there and if he s able to assume that religious role as well. martha, so great checking in with you all morning and we ll be back with you later on as well. thanks, guys. look forward to it. will: king charles iii approving the day of queen elizabeth s funeral a public holiday. rachel: it ll be a ten day period of national mourning. pete: alex hogan is live from buckingham palace with moray. moraymore. good morning, alex. good morning. thousands of people make their way here to buckingham palace and despite the size of the crowds, you hear construction noise behind me because of the number of journalists here from
these are people that the ira, who killed lord malbatton, one of the dearest relatives of charles by blowing up his boat. there s a ton of history of break away and trying to keep it together and big questions. you know, i was just reading they lowered the flags to half staff in ghana and kenya and complicated histories in these countries, but they re putting out proclamations today as well of their love and admiration of queen elizabeth. in big families, it s comply cod extremely complicated in this situation as well. perachel: yeah, family dynamics are complicated and this is no different. one thing that s striking in the procession, it s not just government officials that are processing in part of the ceremony, but there s clerics and the queen of england when she was alive, one of her titles