buckingham palace. a royal 96 gun salute, one for every year of elizabeth s long momentous life. [ gun salute ] also echoing this morning over london, the iconic bells of westminster abbey ringing out along with the bells of other churches across the nation. [ bells tolling ] all of this marks the first of ten days of national mourning. all part of the long planned meticulously orchestrated order of events following the death of the queen. and this hour, we will be bearing witness to all of these historic moments, but also looking back on queen elizabeth s extraordinary life and what is ahead for her son, king charlesiii. you are in front of buckingham palace which we just saw in the last hour king charles iii when he arrived, was able to meet with and briefly talk to so many people. thousands of people that are there. reporter: you are really hit with it as soon as you get off the plane. i arrived this morning and i spent the morning walking around this city. i spent the
and so almost we know is what we have seen in public arrest heard what other people had to say about her. one day we ll get to see the diaries and records of meetings and only then will we really know who this woman really was. they don t have a presidential records act. they do not. but certainly if we do, we would stand to learn a lot about her, her role in this country, but also just how times change throughout the decades. she was literally living history. she lived through so much change. and you were mentioning one of her former staff members who wind out and told stories about her and her sister. that was right. and that was in a magazine here in the states. and you don t do that, you don t
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so he will try to remove some of the controversies to try to put those behind him. and one of the questions will be whether or not he can do that. and he know that the british public are the ones that ultimately decide that and that is why you saw him first thing he did out talking to the people. and is the public ready for him? i know this has been a long time coming and on top of people s minds for the past year or so at least and certainly after that last photo we saw between her and the new prime minister liz truss. there was questions about her frailty. i don t think that anybody though thought that it would come that quickly. it happened so quickly. but are they prepared to take into the death of queen liz best and long live king charles? even saying the words king charles, you almost have to stop yourself because you are so used to saying prince charles. and such a difficult question to answer because it is 70 years that most people have not been through this. when i saw
buckingham palace. a royal 96 gun salute, one for every year of elizabeth s long momentous life. [ gun salute ] also echoing this morning over london, the iconic bells of westminster abbey ringing out along with the bells of other churches across the nation. [ bells tolling ] all of this marks the first of ten days of national mourning. all part of the long planned meticulously orchestrated order of events following the death of the queen. and this hour, we will be bearing witness to all of these historic moments, but also looking back on queen