The Queen became a mother at the age of just 22, but it was her extended role among all her descendants that marked her as a truly matriarchal monarch.
i m particularly interested in this idea of rehearsal. i know that when emily maitliss was preparing for her interview with the prince andrew, colleagues were playing out what would happen in that interview. we do that. you have a colleague pretending to be rishi sunak? we have a whole line up - of colleagues pretending to be all of them. i got back on friday- night, saturday morning, we were in a room rehearsing, doing a paper rehearsal- with five standing candidates. we are just very fortunate. i do these debates with this - amazing team on the programme. an amazing array of smart producers who are all - across all of the policy. detail, and it allows me to test out how the debate is - going to work, so we were doing that on saturday morning. we did another full dress rehearsal on sunday, - and for me, they aren t absolutely crucial bit i of the process. one question i ve got for the three of you before i bring in our guest from sky news, and maybe faisal, you re back with us,
that went down. - i got a call on mondayl and it was just sort of, 0k, here s a heads up there may be a debate . on sunday night. it was like, 0k, fine. as soon as somebody has said that to me, i think. there is a part of my brain| that is already going on it. i knew that it was pretty likely within hours. - it looked as if it was moving in the right direction, - it was akin to an automatic mode. i know how i have to prep for these and it is really. detailed, it is, you know, i already thought about . which subject areas to pull in, and they were very- obvious subject areas. ijust start working as soon as i know, because i knowl there s that element of you vej just got to be prepared in case something shifts or changes. i would just like to be across that. - i m particularly interested in this idea of rehearsal. i know that when emily maitliss was preparing for her interview with the prince andrew, colleagues were playing out what would happen in that interview.