the united kingdom of great britain the united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland? i solemnly promise so to do. she was anointed, blessed and consecrated. choir sings zadok the priest by handel she took possession of a 1,200 year old throne. she knew that it was a role from which only death could release her and yet, when she was born, no one had thought that it would be her destiny. elizabeth alexandra mary windsor was born on 21 april, 1926. she was the first child of the then king s second son, the duke of york. she cried at her christening perhaps the only time in her life that she made a public scene. she was a happy child with occasionally a child of make sense of mystery. mischief. this was the young princess elizabeth at the age of four and three quarters, visiting a photographic studio in london. her life then was comparatively carefree. a politician called winston churchill noted she had an air of authority that was astonishing in an infant. fate pro
covid. i knowi meet again and we did. covid. i know i speak for other prime ministers, ex prime ministers, she comforted us and guided us as well as the nation because she had the patient s and sense of history to see troubles come and go and that disasters are seldom as bad as they seem and it was that indomitable ability, that humour, that were cathy and that sense of history that made her elizabeth the great. work ethic. i should add one final quality, which was her humility, hersingle humility, her single bioelectric fire humility, hersingle bioelectric fire tupperware using refusal to be grand and, unlike us politicians, without convoys, as a direct eyewitness account tell you that she drove herself, in her own car, with no detect lives or bodyguards, at alarming speeds over the scottish landscape, to the total amazement of the tourists we encountered and it is that indomitable spirit with which she created the modern constitutional monarchy, an institution so str
(tx 00v)rescue teams in southwestern china are searching for survivors in the rubble of collapsed buildings following the 6.8 magnitude earthquake on monday. 66 people are now known to have died and more than a dozen are still missing. now on bbc news, the travel show. coming up this week on the travel show i m uncovering ancient treasures amongst spain s moving sand dunes. this is a melting pot of cultures, and all of those peoples have left their archaeological site, which have been kept perfectly intact, down the millennia. cat s in the uk s northernmost city. here s a clue where. the site s really significant. it s had castles that have been burned, besieged, rebuilt. mary, queen of scots, robert the bruce have all had connections with this place. and why greenland is fast becoming a bucket list destination at the top of the world. we decided on greenland. our reason was to experience climate change at the hub of it, so to speak. the huge sand dunes of southern spain ar
follow that, stav danaos! you re here with the weather. here with the weather. good afternoon- here with the weather. good afternoon. it s here with the weather. good afternoon. it s been - here with the weather. good afternoon. it s been a - here with the weather. good afternoon. it s been a wild i here with the weather. good i afternoon. it s been a wild start here with the weather. good - afternoon. it s been a wild start to the week. low pressure nearby, lots of showers and thunderstorms. a few sunny spells here and there and we are going to continue this theme as we head through the working week. we have had the same area of low pressure with since last weekend, parked across the west of the uk, but as we move through the next few days, it was start to migrate towards the east. then we are between weather systems for the coming weekend, so it should be a bit quieter with some sunshine around. we could see mist and fog around. we could see mist and fog around too. th
diehl wins massachusetts governor. worst nightmare. and i m here to stop. tracking the tropics, we are watching hurricane earl. good news not a direct impact. we will see rip current. getting a hair cut a couple seats away from me. i still love you i have plenty of reasons why i do brian: can t get over that hair cut. i will focus on the beach. hard to focus. why are you getting a hair cut at a match like that? steve: he needed one. 67 acres of beach, recreational area of the town nahant, massachusetts. kids are back at school. so they will be there this afternoon at 3:00 when school is over. new york city, don t expect any snow days this year because they stopped them thanks to the advent of zoom, you don t have to miss schooling. ainsley: right, exactly. brian: you should be able to go to the beach or zoom it in. phone your teacher listen i m at new hadn t beach in massachusetts so great i m not coming in today mrs. johnson. i will be watching you.