it was done at balmoral not where it is traditionally done at buckingham palace. normally the queen would have come to buckingham palace to meet with an incoming prime minister. yeah, anderson. i think we should give her a break. she is 96 years old. why would she get on a plane even if she was healthy to come to london. fair point. reporter: when actually the younger people could go up and see her. seriously. 96 years old. she has the right for them to come to see her in balmoral. and i would just say that as we were saying that she has been the thread of everyone s life in this country and the commonwealth and really in the fans of the british monarchy all over the world for the last 70 years. we are right now in a state of some political upheaval. we ve just had a new prime minister, her 15th, and i would also just say that, look. she is also a mother. she is a grandmother, she is a great grandmother, a family woman. and now it s time for them to be having their mome
through. i think once prince harry is in there, not a working role but still a senior member and very high up in the line of succession. i think they want him there before any announcements were made. it would seem dismissive i think if the announcements were made before they were all behind the gates at balmoral castle. then you need a bit of time for them to regroup as well. even if they have been informed of the latest situation, the optics of making sure they have family time. a different angle there. you have a police driver and there is sophie the countess of l w essex there. it looks a bit like william. that would be an extraordinary situation where you ve got all very senior roles in one car which they don t normally to be together like that because it is a bit, a big risk. i think that speaks to the
omitted to understand what the people were feeling. and they not only felt grief but they felt blame. they pointed the finger at the royal family for making diana s life essentially hell. i m paraphrasing. but that is what was happening. she had to come back and look at all the flowers and pay respects out here and that sort of changed the tone. max, i understand you have new reporting about who was in those suvs we just saw going in. well, we re hearing from p.a. who i know have a reporter up there and took the picture as well of truss meeting the queen the other day, said these are the official land rovers and we re told prince william is in one of them and the duke of york in the other and countess of lewa prince edward and sophie. i think we re waiting on prince harry traveling separately. i think the only option is
urgency of today. look at sophie s face. that paints a picture and she is very close to the queen. they ride or until recently rode together every weekend, lived at windsor together. whenever i, you know, asked about interviews with the queen they always suggested sophie because she knows her so well. can i just point out that just the expressions on the faces of very, very somber obviously and because we re journalists we have to point out that prince andrew who has been known as the queen s favorite son is also no longer a working royal because of the scandal that he was involved in regarding the epstein affair, the allegations of sexual mishandling especially of a minor. you know, just to say that she has been surrounded by her sense of never putting a foot wrong, her sense of absolute duty, her sense of being practically the
majority of all british subjects in their life times. there s also the personal and the family and we are seeing the family gathering as many families do when the matriarch is ill. and is at home and has chosen not is not being sent to a hospital. is staying at home and one can read into that whatever one might think. yep. but that image which we are showing up on the screen right now, richard, where you see prince william, you see prince or andrew, you see prince edward, his wife, it is extraordinary to see that. i m wondering your thoughts on that image. i look at that, look at william s face. look at william s face. the intensity of the look. andrew s seriousness. edward looking off again deep in thought and sophie sad.