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hello and welcome to the programme, which brings together leading commentators in the uk with the journalists from overseas who write, blog and broadcast from the dateline london. this week, as this country marks the 70 year long reign of queen elizabeth, what future for queens and kings here and globally? from king mswati, who s used his absolute power to rename his country eswatini to the imperial family ofjapan, gods made mortal by an occupying power. from the often absent thai monarch to king felipee of spain, embarrassed by his dad. in the studio thisjubilee weekend, are catherine pepinster whose new book defenders of the faith, addresses one of the reasons this queen does not contemplate retirement and herfaith. yasmin alibhai brown, a british columnist who is a committed republican, and henry chu from the la times in the united states, a country formed in revolt from the then english monarch. welcome to you all. thank you very much for coming in, particularly on ....
thisjubilee weekend, are katherine pepinstow whose new book defenders of the faith, addresses one of the reasons this queen does not contemplate retirement her faith. yasmin alabi, a brown british columnist who is a committed republican, and henry chu from the la times. in the united states, a country formed in revolt from the then english monarch. welcome to you all. thank you very much for coming in, particularly on such a busy weekend. catherine, can i start with you? there s no doubt that this weekend feels like a very public affirmation of this queen. but is it also consciously, do you think, for the monarchy, at least, a moment of transition? it does feel like that. it s been feeling like that for a while now. we saw the prince of wales represent his mother at the state opening of parliament, another major occasion, and this one too. so i think transition is a good word for it, but he s not being a replacement. he s representing her. and i m intrigued that there h ....
I don t know if you were referring there to. february 1974 and 2010. well, i was thinking more that actually the one that was really the most serious is 63 when macmillan stood down for health reasons. there wasn t a general election, and it was all a bit of a muddle. and he effectively recommended to her that she ask douglas hume to to replace him. but there was a whole group of people who wanted it to be rab butler, and she went for him. and she went for hume. and it seemed on that occasion that it was more the problems caused by the then set up in the conservative party rather than her saying i must have hume because i want hume. and i think that 74 and 2010, with those attempts by heath and brown to stay in office were more of their making than hers. that s a fair criticism. ....
Have been saying and doing. i don t know if you were referring there to. february 1974 and 2010. well, i was thinking more that actually the one that was really the most serious is 63 when macmillan stood down for health reasons. there wasn t an election, there wasn t a general election, and it was all a bit of a muddle. and he effectively recommended to her that she ask douglas hume to to replace him. but there was a whole group of people who wanted it to be rab butler, and she went for him. and it seemed on that occasion that it was more the problems caused by the then set up in the conservative party rather than her saying i must have hume because i want hume. ....
And professor turley isn t himself the subject of these proceedings, him changing his mind on this stuff over time is like an interesting thing to note about him as a congressional witness. it s not particularly material to what we are facing in terms of this decision for the congress and the country. but seeing professor turley and seeing michael gerhardt, seeing them both testifying at both of these impeachment hearings for clinton in 98 and for trump today, recognizing that the report of the watergate committee that came in february 1974 was on this same subject, the constitutional grounds for impeachment. it s kind of a good reminder i think that this is part and parcel how we as a country approach presidential impeachments at least in the modern era. there does have to be a reckoning what the constitution says impeachment is for. and considering the impeachment of any particular president rightfully involves a robust discussion and a robust argument that as to whether the preside ....