cautious step as monarch, she is torn between the palace old forward led by her mother and those like her husband philip who want change. with scandals swirling around her sister margaret threatening to tarnish her reign, the queen must assert her power. sacrificing the happiness of those she loves. february 1952. elizabeth ii has been queen for just a few days, following the death of her father, king george vi. shortly after the king s lord mount batten prince philip s uncle holds a dinner party at the house in hampshire. lord louis mountbatten played a key role in the life of his young nephew philip. when philip is a child the family are deposed and they flee to exile, and really his father has no time for him. louis mountbatten takes over as philip s guardian and so he sees him as his son really. lord mountbatten had always had domestic ambitions for his nephew philip. he was like some sort of medieval character plotting the advance of his own dynasty. lord mou
prime minister is tweeting about it. so address the issue rather than trying to keep it private. also been announced that prince of wales, the queen s heir, is traveling immediately to balmoral in scotland and he is dropping all his plans. we are also, of course, trying to i just checked in with kensington palace to see what prince william s movements are because obviously he s been informed. we re told all the family, key family have been informed. but prince william will also i m sure be expected to visit as well. max, remind us of the queen s activities over the last week, where she was seen and not seen and what concerns have arisen over the last few days about her health. well, she always goes to scotland to balmoral in the summer. and she always comes to buckingham palace to appoint a new prime minister. and the concern recently was that she announced she would not be returning from balmoral to appoint the prime minister, so the outgoing and incoming prime ministe
was wise enough, particularly after the death of diana, to learn how to move the monarchy forward incrementally. and she was much more in touch in a personal way with people, and you know, so i think, you know, she s always been incredibly wise and she has never gone out she never went out sort of over her skis. she always sort of had almost a sixth sense of knowing not to be too far ahead of where the public was. but yet, to bring them along when it was necessary, and i think in terms of the transition now, she has particularly, it s notable that over the past months, when or month when charles was up in balmoral, he was with her many days, and i think it s it s important to remember that she has given him many tutorials on leadership, and at one point, he said, we learn by observing, and he s obviously learned by doing as well. but she has, as her father did before her, you know, she has provided a model and a guidebook, in a way, for him to reign. kate williams,
max, anybody under the able of 72 or so, has never known a world without queen elizabeth. what happens now? what do the next few weeks look like? i think the images you ve been speaking to and the ones we re looking at now really express the now. people are shocked, saddened, they sort of saw this coming but didn t know how it was going to feel. you have thousands of people coming down here to buckingham palace to mill about, to talk to each other, it s quite celebratory at times. i think that s quite heartening in a way, because i know that the queen wanted people to celebrate her life and not necessarily mourn her life. but people just, you know, pouring down with rain and people are flooding here. i think that s going to be the story of the next few days. as the palace, the government, and various public bodies tried to organize a series of events that could last up to two weeks after the funeral to somehow try to not just express the queen s legacy, but also to look ahe
prerecorded. there will be gun salutes tomorrow. the formalitiies tomorrow. k king charles and queen camilla will be overseeing the first day of national mourning, which will continue until the funeral in just under two weeks time. so at the moment, the body will be lying in the ballroom, i imagine, and members of staff will be paying their respects, as will members of the family who will gather there, and there will be a procession to the capital of scotland tomorrow, where the queen will lie for a couple of days. that s the plan, i think. but these things are being signed off by prince charles, i think. king charles, as we speak. and then there will be the funeral in a couple of weeks, which will be an extraordinary affair, bianca. can you imagine a bigger state event, not just for the uk but almost the world considering her status on the world stage. i don t think it s possible for anyone to imagine what that s going to be like. i think, jake, picking up on your point a