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
this stall. they were very good. he went through the whole procedure so fast, so rapidly, i thought, oh, my goodness. he did it deliberately. then he did it again in slow motion. i thought it was funny because i got to the kneeling stool and i looked at this, do i start left, right, left, right. you ve got to put your left foot to the side first and place your knee. you don t want anybody, you know, going over and stomp. he winds you all up. and the thing i thought was so wonderful british. he says, you take a knee, and the sword will be placed on your right shoulder. nothing is said. then the sword is placed on your left shoulder, nothing is said. you ll stand to the side. her majesty will place the medal. nothing is said. she will then retrieve to disperse of the sword, and then you only speak when her majesty speaks. and then it s conversation,