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this is the end of an era without any

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doubt at all it was a friendly subdued

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thoughtful well-controlled

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and

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obviously people with fond memories and

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wanting to be respectful and the

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atmosphere is dignified

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well i can remember when the coronation

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in 1953

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that we got a television specifically

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for that occasion

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sense of service and duty

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work ethic

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dignity calmness and diplomacy

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it's someone's mom it's someone's gran

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it's it's it's a family member i think

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she was a real

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positive role model she was always so

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dignified and

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was always there at the at the big

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occasions and led to the country really

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in a dignified manner

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hiya welcome to easy english so as

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you're probably well aware queen

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elizabeth ii passed away recently so we

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thought during the strange and unique

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time in the uk it would only be fitting

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to head down to the beach and ask the

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people of brighton what memories they

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have of her during her 70-year reign as

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queen

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i'm also interested to know they'll be

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watching the following proceedings

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including her funeral and also what they

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think might change if anything once king

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charles takes the throne now before we

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here we go

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the thing that stands out most for me

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was the um the silver jubilee

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when i was

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would i've been 11 probably and that was

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a really big celebration okay um

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did you do something for it the schools

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all did something i remember being on

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the back of like a carnival truck

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everyone was dressed in red white and

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blue

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um big tea parties in the street it was

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a really big occasion i think if you're

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not from britain you view more the queen

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more is like you know the representative

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of the uk when you know more than our

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prime ministers more than the prime

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ministers yes in some ways is that

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because we've had so many

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i think so i mean and you haven't had

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the best run of prime ministers in the

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last like

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15 years right right and so the queen is

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a much more like kind of dependable or

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stable presence through those years in

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canada we have a very strong feeling for

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the queen

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she's visited our country

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many times very beloved in canada yeah

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for her

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devotion uh to the commonwealth

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for her hard work in her role

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and as a role model for

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service to things that you believe in

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and

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she's

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always on our postage stamps yeah she's

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a big part of life in canada so we're

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very sorry to see her

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pass away but by the same token her

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legacy is is immense and very

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appreciated

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well we've lived through three jubilees

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so

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and each one i think has been a

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reflection of the

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high steam in which she's been held

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purely because of the service that she's

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rendered

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incredible really

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she's always managed to

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devote herself to service

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without ever expressing personal

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opinions

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um which is a

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amazing feat in itself

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she went to a country show i believe it

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was and she got extremely excited when

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the cows came on

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which made my day because i don't know

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it was just such a personal moment that

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sort of connected me to uh is that as a

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real person that's excited over

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something that maybe you know i'd be

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excited to see for the first time kind

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of thing it just goes through your mind

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about how much she worked and how much

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little time she probably had to enjoy

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being a mother

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um a grandmother and all that sort of

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stuff so you're thinking more on the

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personal side of things as opposed to

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the queen the monarchy kind of stuff oh

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she was i mean first and foremost she's

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a human being yeah um

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and you know think about that sort of

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stuff

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i think the thing that i'll

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always remember actually

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about her is the fact

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that when she was dying she somehow

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managed

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to get off her deathbed

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and stand up

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and

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welcome in the next prime minister the

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15th prime minister that she had done

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i think that that summarized the

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strength of character that she actually

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had

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in that

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she knew that it was her duty

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and somehow it looked as though she was

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going for the record

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in that she had welcomed in 15 prime

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ministers from winston churchill to liz

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trust and when you looked at her

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she was immensely frail

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and you could see the bruises on her

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hand which showed that she had been you

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know getting a cannula or a drip in

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there and yet she

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managed to do that and that shows

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immense strength of character

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and shortly after that she died and that

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will be my abiding image of her what do

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you think

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will change if anything with um

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with

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now king charles seems weird to say that

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it's interesting isn't it because he's

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obviously got his own ideas

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on how he's going to um

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lead the country and

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and reign as our monarch but i think

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he will probably follow very much in his

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mother's footsteps in how dignified he

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is

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the age he is as well i wonder whether

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he will

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um stay on the throne as long as she did

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and see it through to the end or whether

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he will

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give it up and and hand over to william

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at some at some point

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so it's interesting we watch with

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interest how do you think king charles

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will fare in comparison to elizabeth i

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mean this is what everyone's been

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discussing right i mean elizabeth was

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very uniquely as a public figure

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reserved and i'm not sure that this is

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how

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king charles conducted himself when he

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was prince

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so it remains to be seen people bring

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the same sort of you know quiet

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gravitas as elizabeth did i think he'll

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try to modernize things i think he'll

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try to

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um support projects that meet his goals

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he's a well-known environmentalist for

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instance

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we were impressed by the way to take a

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solar-powered bus to get here from

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brighton we we don't have solar-powered

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buses in vancouver yet so we're going to

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try and take a lesson

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from the uk on that yeah you think he

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might you think he won't face too many

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hurdles in pushing these things

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forward you know his own interest in

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like you say environment so many years

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of being in training for

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his role i'm sure he has quite a few

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people that support him and support his

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causes he'd be well connected of course

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and so i think he'll he'll have a pretty

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smooth

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transition and be able to realize some

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of his goals but of course i have no

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idea but

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i hope he will and i also think william

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would make a great king

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i think there might be a slight leaning

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towards different charitable causes if

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you like or just causes themselves but i

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think

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charles has been brought up within that

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environment of duty

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work ethic

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and service

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for all his life so i see no reason why

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that should change at all um but i think

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he will probably bring a slightly

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different

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nuance to the

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um

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matters of today if you like

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particularly environment what do you

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think then if anything other than money

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in stamps

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what will change once we have king

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charles

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anything

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you think i think it's hard to tell at

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the moment for me personally like as i'm

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not quite connected to it all i don't

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know what's going to change

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but i think there will be changes i

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think i think there will be it's a newer

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it's a king isn't it

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yeah it seems big yes it seems like a

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big deal so it's got it's got to change

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something hasn't it this is the end of

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an era without any doubt at all

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and we have most people in this country

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have been used to having just this one

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monarch and we all think that we know

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what chance is like because he's been

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serving the longest apprenticeship

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for in

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possibly history you know he's starting

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his new job at a time when everybody

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else is retired and we think we know him

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yeah

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and we think you know many people

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probably think that he's going to be

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divisive but

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um those people who know him seem to

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suggest that he's going to be um quite a

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good leader and you know he has to

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really up his game if he's going to make

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the monarchy relevant in modern society

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will you be watching the the funeral on

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monday yes i will be well it's such

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and has it's such an historic kind of

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event isn't it yeah

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and has obviously been planned for a

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long time what how they were going to

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play it out and right yeah all of the

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official kind of

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way they do everything so it will be

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interesting to watch will you be maybe

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watching the funeral on monday um

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i think i was supposed to be going to

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london on monday which i won't be

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anymore

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um that'd be hectic hectic yeah a little

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bit scary in london for that but um i

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think i'll probably watch it yeah oh

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yeah okay

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i'll watch it because i've got lots of

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friends that seem to be upset by the

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situation

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and

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even though

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there's a lot of controversy around it

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i believe that you know it's someone's

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mom it's someone's grand it's it's it's

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a family member and not only that is

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it's it's you know it's going to be a

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big celebration it's going to be a

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beautiful moment for

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for telly i guess uh to be honest i

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think i'll try to go and at least crowd

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spectate just because like oh you might

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go to london to go to watch yeah i mean

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actually last week i was in london and i

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went outside to see it's like saint

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paul's cathedral but it's just

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interesting from let's say sociological

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perspective to people watch what's

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happening oh wow okay well i hope you

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have i'm not gonna say a nice time is

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yeah i guess so i mean you know it is um

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something where many people are coming

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together and sharing an emotional

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experience which outside of concerts is

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not sort of the norm in modern society

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right so it's an interesting experience

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thanks for watching this week's episode

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please let us know in the comments below

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your thoughts and memories of queen

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elizabeth ii

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and then we'll see you next week

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