they respectfully ask the focus remain on the life and legacy of her majesty. that was the message from the spokesperson of prince harry? yes. in just a moment we will be seeing the coffin of the queen being taken out, greeted by the honor guard. anderson, you know, we ve heard it once, we ve heard it many times, it nonetheless remains very true. the queen over 70 years became the rock. she was the rock of this nation through thick and thin, ups and downs, family tref vales, triumphs and disasters, national crises in a very unstable rocky world. i think also people are reacting to that. again, it wasn t unexpected that a 96-year-old matriarch was going to passed away. we knew that she was getting weaker, she had retired not quite but reduced a lot her public duties. a lot of them had been handed over to prince, now king charles, and, you know, the fact that she spent her last waking moments performing it s extraordinary. her constitutional and professional dut
Just as a warm and extraordinarily thoughtful person and her experience, i should mention, of course, she was a refugee. yes. and that experience informed her policy. and she knew what dictatorship looked like and continued her warning us of that of that possibility right up to the time of her death. i ll be there, mika, i m sure is going to be there this morning at the cathedral for her service. it s a great loss to the country. a great loss to the country. and of course, we see it there. you telling that story, fascinating, in so many ways she was a trail blazer, whether in ed muskie s office or secretary of state. but women who are major figures like thatcher, like lagarde, you could name so many other leaders. she wasn t a woman who was secretary of state.