and this is the scene right now, with people continuing to queue despite an onset of colder weather tonight and waiting times of around 22 hours. earlier, the king ended his tour of the uk in cardiff, addressing members of the welsh parliament and greeting crowds who came to welcome him. i take itake up i take up my new duties with immense gratitude for the privilege of having been able to serve as prince of wales. we ll bring you details of the events taking place over the weekend leading up to the queen s state funeral on monday. also on the programme. ukraine says hundreds of graves have been found outside izyum, a city that was recently regained from russian forces. it s only now, after the russians have been pushed out, that the authorities can really investigate and can establish how many victims they left behind. as retail sales in the uk dip sharply, the pound falls to a 37 year low against the us dollar. and the women s super league in england gets under way, with cl
10 days. can you think of anyone? the only comparison i can make was really nelson mandela, whose funeral i also attended. these were two people who, they transcended their countries and frankly, they ended upstanding and symbolizing for things greater than even the institutions they represented. that would be the only comparison i think you could make. they were good friends. in fact, nelson mandela had a habit of calling her elizabeth and kept being reproached by his family saying you can t call the queen by her first name. why not, she calls me nelson? . she knew everyone. she did. anyone she wanted to meet. i remember the story she wanted to meet billy graham came to
0 in a different way than emotional then sad. i think it was just overw overwhelming. you know, you are there and you see and appreciate the longevity and the grandeur of the institutions that the queen represented. and it is really imposing. obviously, someone who knew the queen personally, it is a sad moment. but at the same time, what you are also seeing3 it was a beautiful life well lived with much meaning and accomplishment. can i ask you one thing with canada? the queen chose four mounted officers from the royal canadian mounted police to reed the procession, which was indicative of her great abiding affection for the mounties and canada but a great honor for canada itself. i absolutely agree. canada had a very special place in her heart. she traveled to canada regularly both before she was queen and after. i think she had some 20 royal tours. she was literally at every part of the canada is a huge country and she was in every part of it at one time or another. she unders
she was met by south africa s most famous prisoner, now democratically elected president, nelson mandela. now, underyourwise and generous leadership, south africa is emerging onto the world stage. the two regal figures were soon on first name terms. people would say, how can you say elizabeth to the queen? and mandela would say, but she calls me nelson, so what is wrong with my calling her elizabeth? very much a relationship of equals. very much so. unusual. very unusual. significantly, and despite security concerns, the queen insisted on visiting poor and often violent black townships, attracting curious, enthusiastic crowds. so, it meant a lot to people here that she came. it meant a lot, she came here. and wasn t scared.
raise your right hand at the tv. see me here on the tv? raise your right hand at me, at the tv. repeat after me. i state your name. do hereby swear. that i will watch the rachel madmaddow show to the very, very last second every day that it is on. to the best of my ability. so help me nelson. thank you. you may sit down back in front of the television. one of the strangest face plants that s happened in this week of big funny mistakes in washington is a story that started like a footnote, like a detail about the proceedings in washington but now has snowballed into a real story. it s the story of two members of congress, people elected to serve in congress, who tried to fake their own swearing-in. the constitution says you can t be a member of congress unless you are sworn in as a member of congress and thomas jefferson s writings in the constitution itself make clear what it means to be sworn in as a member of