buckingham palace. we re all day, people have been to leave flowers, share memories, or just be part of history. this is cnn s continuing live coverage of the death of queen elizabeth the second. i m cristiano lump or in london. the queen saw 14 american president and 15 british prime ministers come and go. the latest, lustrous, who became prime minister just two days ago. their meeting was captured in the final photographs of a monarch who is still working right to the very end. now, her family is in mourning, as the world watches. saying farewell to the queen who is also a mother, a grandmother, a great grandmother. prince charles, now can charles the third, is expected to address the british people in a matter of hours. but, this was the scene outside buckingham palace earlier. a rainbow spreading across the sky as crowds gathered shortly before the death of the queen was announced. the queen, who dedicated her life to the service of her people. saw many years ago. i dec
i am christiane amanpour with more of our continuing live coverage on the death of queen elizabeth the second. it is 5 am here in london. the vast majority of the british people, more than 80%, have lived their entire lives with only elizabeth on the phone. now her son king charles the third largest nation later on and a world in a matter of just a few hours. with me tonight, cnn correspondent bianca nobilo is at buckingham palace. correspondent nick robertson isn t and cnn correspondent scott mclain is at windsor castle. bianca, let s go to you outside buckingham palace. we know that a lot of press is coming. the noise out there, the engineers putting all the final touches on press platforms. don lemon will be there tomorrow and given his show. tell us what is going on outside and has been. i know there s not so many people are now, but the morning has been quite consistent throughout the day. preparation s had been her at balmoral. of course, we now know as well that
buckingham palace in london. it s 6 am and the uk where people are waiting up with a profound sense of loss. for the first time in more than seven decades, the country is without its queen. a period of mourning now for britain s longest reigning monarch, elizabeth the second. you may hear the noise around me as preparations are underway for this next ten to ten days to two-week period. flags being hung around as these are images from buckingham palace where crowds have been gathering throughout what has been a rainy night in london. memorials to her late majesty with flowers, candles, and personal messages outside the royal grounds. symbols of the country s immense grief decorate the gates of windsor castle. as well as balmoral, the queen scottish retreat where she passed away peacefully at the age of 96. just two days after appointing her 15th prime minister while appearing very frail. elizabeth the second is coronation happened in 1953. no date has been said yet for the c
welcome to westminster, where people continue to queue to pay their respects to her majesty the queen. the queue is now officially closed and no more people are now allowed to join the end of the queue, so the people who are now filing past me are some of the last who will have that moment in westminster hall in that historic building, nearly 1000 years old, that has witnessed so much history, witnessing it once again, these are some of the last people to be able to file past her majesty the queen, the late queen who has been lying in state for nearly four and a half days. that will then end at 6:30am many of these people behind me, they have started at 4pm and they continue to file past and this is we are right in the middle of the snake, that moment where people have do zigzag very compressed in order to facilitate so many people, thousands of people, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people. we believe at least half a million people will ma
shortly before a correlation in 1953, whatever your religion may be to pray for me on that day to pray that god may give me wisdom and strength to carry out the solemn promises i should be making and that i may faithfully serve him and you all the days of my life. for the most part she did just that. and that was not a small achievement given the period she lived in. the week that elizabeth was coordinated, edmund hillary, the british subjects from new zealand, the beekeeper became the first man in history to summit mount everest. the achievement seems symbolic at the time, britain on top of the world. but in fact britain was already over whether the british knew it or not. to this day britain claims to have won both of the century s world wars but they destroy that nation forever after victory came, humiliation. the empire evaporated in along with apron self-confidence, and ultimately had self-respect. it s hard to believe now, but britain was not always a regional banking c