a personal moment between king and heir william wishes his father good luck with a kiss. i , william, prince of pledge male loyalty to you as you are liegeman in life and limb, so help me god. after the ceremony the royal couple headed back to buckingham palace as the crowds cheered on along the mall. cheering and the weather causes a scaled down fly past but the red arrows delight the crowds. winged victory shimmering and a dark sky this evening outside buckingham palace, still some crowds milling around the victoria memorial but it is cold and wet and it has been all day, but there has been no event like it in seven days. seven decades. king charles iii has been crowned in a ceremony rich with music and symbolism at london s westminster abbey. the king took an oath on a bible promising to do the duties of the monarch. his queen camilla was also crowned in a service which included representatives from a range of faiths across the uk and the commonwealth. the coronat
the queen mother, in 1937. a personal moment between king and heir, william wishes his father good luck with a kiss. i, william, prince of wales, pledge my loyalty to you as your liegeman in life and limb, so help me god. after the ceremony the royal couple headed back to buckingham palace as the crowds cheered on along the mall. and the weather causes a scaled down fly past, but the red arrows delighted the crowds. good evening. the lightjust faded here at buckingham palace. there is queen victoria holding the orb in the memorial at buckingham palace with winged victory shimmering above her in these dark skies. still the rainfalls. most people have now left, some stragglers still soaking up left, some stragglers still soaking up the atmosphere of the day. there s been no event like it in seven decades. king charles iii has been crowned in a ceremony rich with music and symbolism at london s westminster abbey. the king took an oath on a bible promising to do fulfil the dut
the united kingdom of great britain the united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland? i solemnly promise so to do. she was anointed, blessed and consecrated. choir sings zadok the priest by handel she took possession of a 1,200 year old throne. she knew that it was a role from which only death could release her and yet, when she was born, no one had thought that it would be her destiny. elizabeth alexandra mary windsor was born on 21 april, 1926. she was the first child of the then king s second son, the duke of york. she cried at her christening perhaps the only time in her life that she made a public scene. she was a happy child with occasionally a child of make sense of mystery. mischief. this was the young princess elizabeth at the age of four and three quarters, visiting a photographic studio in london. her life then was comparatively carefree. a politician called winston churchill noted she had an air of authority that was astonishing in an infant. fate pro
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an amazing woman. just a very sombre mood in windsor, really. what did she represent to people of your generation? a guiding light, a moral code, how to conduct yourself, - how to act, what is - right and what s wrong. here on the streets of royal windsor, the sense of a an epoch having passed is palpable. there is the sense of mourning, shared with the entire nation. but something else. for these people have lost a neighbour, a queen who was part of their daily lives. amir bukhari was getting calls from relatives in pakistan, who had heard the news. he runs a cafe besides windsor castle. no words to express my emotions. it is really sad. what did she mean to you? not only me but everyone in the world. everybody feels very sad, very down. for us, she was a neighbour. and we feel more. no matter how long anticipated, the end has crystallised loss. the passing of a monarch, who symbolised to people the best of their nation, of themselves. fergal keane, bbc news, windsor. you ve