captions by vitac www.vitac.com looking right now at buckingham palace. people, though fewer in number, are still showing up at this hour. the embodiment, as cnn s max foster put it earlier in the program, of a nation slightly loss after the passing of queen elizabeth ii earlier today in scotland. she was, as many have said, the only monarch most britons have known. and she may have been the first british monarch most britons have known in a familiar, more regal sense, the first to usher in the modern united kingdom. christian am pour said tonight from the grand britain of her early childhood to the great britain of today. it read, the queen died peacefully at balmoral this afternoon. the king and the queen consort will remain at balmoral this evening and will return tomorrow. we saw a demonstration of remarkable continuity of secession, people outside the palace singing the national anthem with god save the queen replaced from here to the end of charles iii s reign
she was all aebt laughing at somebody tripping up or maybe slapstick humor or on official duty, something is going wrong, someone s hat blew off or whatever. it was quite funny, her sense of humor, and it was a pleasure to photograph her like that. you said some of your favorite parahotographs, can yo tell us about queen elizabeth and the queen mother kneeling in front of what looks like a fence. i m not sure where this was. well, it was back in the mid- 70s when i first started taking pictures of the royal family as a young photographer. and it was pre the period of a lot of security coming. it was easy days, when you could virtually walk right up to the royal family. and that actually is the public directly behind them. it s just that little fence dividing the public. so, can you imagine that today? you wouldn t have that happen. and they were at a horse show, and they were watching this is where the sense of humor comes in. they were sitting on the ground by a water jump at th