with the british royal family. how do you make an old family relevant? it clearly is. jonathan: talking about that my want to show the viewer some video of this morning. the lying in state for the queen ended 6:30 this morning and that was 1:30 eastern. nuc the last person in the line, hundreds of thousands, this was the last person to be allowed into westminster to pay her respects to the queen to say that last goodbye and she spoke briefly as she came out from the palace at westminster. listen here. it is an honor. to be able to do that on behalf of of the air force, to an amazing lady that will never be replaced. it was an honor. jonathan: really quite something, duncan, to be the
about bringing people together, unity. duncan: it is a good story. jonathan: duncan, we will come back to you throughout the hour. thank you for being here. people all over the world are turning their attention to london this morning for queen elizabeth s funeral. every country with diplomatic ties to the u.k. received an invitation to the queen s funeral, but there are some notable exceptions. who is in and who s out? next. she will be with him every step of the way, every minute, every moment.
watched so closely and has to avoid any mistakes. one of the mistakes everybody was watching for this time was who will be in and who will be out on this invite list. obviously, we saw president biden he is here, justin trudeau from canada, the australian prime minister and also not invited vladimir putin of russia for obvious reasons, kim jong un of north korea, and syria. not fun to have to draw up that list whereas duncan was saying earlier a seating chart for all of this. luckily, the king doesn t have to do that. he s got good people. and so, the european royal families the late queen related to many of the royal families of europe. you have the king of sweden. we have the king of spain, the royal family of monaco, the
contributor duncan. duncan into the ranks of state funerals and there haven t been that many of them as we just mentioned, where do you think with historians to look back in two years time? yes, this will be right up there what we say and what we will witness today and since her death we have seen ceremonies in strange old traditions and rituals. today that will all come together, police security and all of these world leaders, the nightmare, only a few days to arrange the seating and if you ve ever done that, when i got married, next to north korea, south korea. do they sit together? does the ambassador of iran seat anywhere near the prime minister of israel? the disgraced king of spain does he sit near his son who is now running spain? so, i mean to have a few days to
last person in line. as you were sagging, an extraordinary display we saw over the past four days, so many people lining up in so many people i heard saint she gave us 70 years, what is 24 hours of my life to say goodbye? duncan: one of the things that came across a lot, i just didn t want to miss this personally. i don t think i could wait that long at all. i m not the world s most patient man. but for those british people that were patient enough, i think they were rewarded and how wonderful for that lady to be the last one. not only that but don t forget there is a story for aging and the paper about a couple of strangers that met in the queue a couple of days ago a woman and a man, and they will meet up today and watch the funeral together. jonathan: those friendships have been made very special. duncan: that might be periods be with the queen was