the pageantry of the queen s diamond jubilee and the excitement of the olympics. matt s so excited he s already there on the grounds of kensington palace today, may 3rd, 2012. captions paid for by nbc-universal television announcer: today in london with matt lauer. live from kensington palace. and ann curry. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and welcome to a special split edition of today on this thursday morning. i m ann curry in new york. and matt, i know you already consider yourself royalty, but do you really have to rub it in? yeah, how about this background, huh, ann? this is kensington palace behind me on what they call a beautiful spring day here in london. temperature, 48 degrees. a little wind and rain. if this is spring, i can t wait for summer. but boy, isn t it nice? they just spent two years and about $19 million renovating this beautiful palace.hat statu there that you see of queen victoria who, by the way, was born here at kensington palace.
and a tanning room. reporter: she says it was a misunderstanding, that she took her daughter inside the room similar to this one but had anna wait while she alone went into the tanning bed. she says her daughter was never exposed to uv rays. she s my little girl. am i going to bring my little daughter into a # 90-degree bed? i mean, that s not normal. reporter: well, later that day anna s mother and father say she was playing in the back yard. it was 80 degrees. anna got a minor sunburn. at school the next day, they think she proudly told her friends she went tanning with mommy even though she didn t actually get a tan. they think her teachers heard her say that, saw the sunburn, made an assumption, and called the police. she got sun burned. that s it. that s all that happened. reporter: the incident happened over a week ago but we couldn t see any burns on anna or even any indications she even had a sunburn. new jersey law prohibits kids under 14 from going tanning