CAPTIONS BY ABLE. CAPTIONS WERE MADE WITH THE SUPPORT OF NZ ON AIR. WWW.ABLE.CO.NZ COPYRIGHT ABLE 2021 (SOMBRE MUSIC) (SOMBRE MUSIC CONTINUES) FOR MORE THAN 1000 YEARS, IN GOOD TIMES AND BAD, THE TOWER OF WINDSOR HAS TAKEN PRIDE IN ITS ENDURING BOND WITH THE MONARCHY. TODAY, UNDER BLUE SKIES AND GLORIOUS SUNSHINE, THE ROYAL BOROUGH PROVIDES THE SETTING FOR A CEREMONIAL FUNERAL AS THE LONGEST SERVING CONSORT OF THE ROYAL FAMILY IS LAID TO REST. A LONG AND PRODUCTIVE LIFETIME AND A HISTORY OF REAL ACHIEVEMENT AND A PEACEFUL DEATH AT THE AGE OF 99. THESE ARE ALL THINGS TO CELEBRATE AND MARK DEATH AT THE AGE OF 99. THESE ARE ALL THINGS TO CELEBRATE AND MARK WITH GRATITUDE. TODAY'S FUNERAL FOR THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH WILL CERTAINLY CELEBRATE A LIFE WELL LIVED. BUT IT WILL ALSO BE A TIME OF GRIEF AND LOSS FOR HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN, WHO HAS RELIED ON HER CONSORT. IT IS A TIME OF LOSS FOR THE CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN AND WIDER FAMILY. IT WAS HERE AT WINDSOR CASTLE EIGHT DAYS AGO THAT PRINCE PHILIP PASSED AWAY. IT IS HERE IN THE PRIVATE CHAPEL THAT THE PRINCE HAS BEEN LYING AT REST BEFORE TODAY'S FUNERAL WHICH WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE CASTLE'S PRECINCTS IN THE SPLENDOUR OF ST GEORGE'S CHAPEL, THE BURIAL PLACE OF SOME OF BRITAIN'S GREATEST MONARCHS. THE CHAPEL WILL NOT BE FILLED. DUE TO COVID RESTRICTIONS, THERE WILL BE LIMITED NUMBERS. THERE WILL BE GLORIOUS MUSIC, MUCH OF IT RESTRAINED BUT POWERFUL, IN KEEPING WITH THE OCCASION. FLOWERS AND COUNTLESS OTHER TRIBUTES ARE A VIVID REMINDER OF A VAST CONGREGATION WATCHING THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AND ESPECIALLY IN THE COUNTRIES OF THE COMMONWEALTH, WANTING TO PAY TRIBUTE TO PRINCE PHILIP AND TO GIVE SYMPATHY TO THE QUEEN AT THIS TIME. IT IS FAIR TO SAY THAT EVENTS HAVE MOVED QUICKLY SINCE THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DEATH ON FRIDAY, APRIL 9. FAMILY MEMBERS HAVE PAID THEIR OWN TRIBUTES, LED BY HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE OF WALES. PALACE OFFICIALS HAVE BEEN FINALISING THE PLANS FOR TODAY'S PLANS AND THEY HAVE BEEN APPROVED BY PRINCE PHILIP IN RECENT MONTHS. WE ARE INTERRUPTING OUR NORMAL PROGRAMMES TO BRING AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT. BUCKINGHAM PALACE HAS ANNOUNCED THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH. IT IS WITH DEEP SORROW HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN ANNOUNCES THE DEATH OF HER BELOVED HUSBAND, HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH. HE PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY THIS MORNING AT WINDSOR CASTLE. (SOMBRE MUSIC) I PARTICULARLY WANTED TO SAY THAT MY FATHER, OVER THE LAST 70 YEARS, HAS GIVEN THE MOST REMARKABLE DEVOTED SERVICE TO THE QUEEN, TO MY FAMILY AND TO THE COUNTRY. AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, MY FAMILY AND I MISS MY FATHER ENORMOUSLY. HE WAS A MUCH LOVED AND APPRECIATED FIGURE. WE ARE SO DEEPLY TOUCHED BY THE NUMBER OF OTHER PEOPLE HERE AND AROUND THE WORLD AND IN THE COMMONWEALTH WHO SHARE OUR LOSS AND OUR SORROW. (EMOTIVE MUSIC) MY DEAR PAPA WAS A VERY SPECIAL PERSON, WHO I THINK ABOVE ALL ELSE WOULD HAVE BEEN AMAZED BY THE REACTION AND THE TOUCHING THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN SAID ABOUT HIM. WE ARE DEEPLY GRATEFUL FOR ALL OF THAT. IT WILL SUSTAIN US IN THIS PARTICULAR LOSS AND AT THIS PARTICULARLY SAD TIME. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. A SENSE OF THE RAPID COURSE OF THE PAST WEEK. ONE OF THE IMPORTANT THINGS TO DO TODAY AHEAD OF THE FUNERAL SERVICE IS TO TALK ABOUT THE MAN, TALK ABOUT PRINCE PHILIP AND HIS CHARACTER AND HIS CAUSES. WE HAVE INVITED SOME SPECIAL GUESTS TO SHARE THEIR KNOWLEDGE WITH US TODAY. TWO WITH A WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE JOIN US NOW. BROADCASTER AND NATURAL HISTORIAN SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH AND BARONESS SCOTLAND, SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH. WELCOME TO THE STUDIO. SIR DAVID, GIVEN THAT YOU HAVE A SHARED CERTAINLY A CORE OF INTERESTS AROUND CONSERVATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT, AND THAT YOU HAD QUITE A FEW DEALINGS WITH THE DUKE OVER THE YEARS, CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE MAN FIRST OF ALL AND THE IMPRESSION HE MADE ON YOU DURING YOUR EXCHANGES TOGETHER? HE WAS AN EXTRAORDINARY COMBINATION OF BEING FORMIDABLE AND ACTUALLY BEING CHEERFUL, FRIENDLY MORE THAN CHEERFUL. YOU KNEW HE WAS THERE IN AN EXTRAORDINARY WAY, AN AMAZING PRESENCE, WHICH IS AN EXTRAORDINARY BALANCING ACT BETWEEN FORMALITY AND INFORMALITY. AND THAT BOTH PUT YOU AT EASE BUT ALSO MADE YOU AWARE THAT YOU WERE ON PARADE AS IT WERE. HE WAS A SERVING OFFICER IN THE BRITISH NAVY, THAT WAS WITH HIM ALL THE TIME. AT LEAST IT WAS IN MY VIEW. I WAS IN THE NAVY TOO, A LONG TIME AFTER THE WAR. I KNOW WHEN A COMMANDING OFFICER COMES ON BOARD. YOU KNEW THAT WHEN HE ARRIVED. HE HAD AN EXTRAORDINARY AMBIENCE. YOU HAD TO SENSE IT. WE WILL TALK ABOUT THE CAUSES IN A MOMENT. I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE MAN AND THE IMPRESSION HE MADE. I THINK HE WAS EXTRAORDINARY. I HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF MEETING HIM OFF AND ON ABOUT 40 YEARS. FIRST AS A YOUNG BARRISTER HERE AT CUMBERLAND LODGE. AND THEN IN ALL THE OTHER MANIFESTATIONS UP TO BEING SECRETARY-GENERAL AND HE WAS ALWAYS THE SAME. HE HAD THIS ACUITY AND SHARPNESS. HE COULD MAKE YOU REALLY STAND ON YOUR METTLE. BUT HE WAS CHARMING AND KIND AND WARM. HE REALLY CARED. THE THINGS THAT ABSORBED HIM, WHETHER IT WAS CLIMATE CHANGE OR THE EX-SERVICE LEAGUE OR THE COMMONWEALTH STUDY CONFERENCE, THE EDINBURGH AWARDS, THESE WERE PASSIONATE THINGS TO HIM. HE WAS A GREAT CONVEYOR OF THOSE PASSIONS. I THINK WE WILL MISS HIM TERRIBLY. THE COMMONWEALTH IS HEARTBROKEN. 54 COUNTRIES, 2.5 BILLION PEOPLE, ONE THIRD OF THE WORLD, 60% OF THEM UNDER THE AGE OF 30. THEY WILL MISS HIM. SIR DAVID, HE WAS A PIONEER IN SOME FIELDS. HE EMBRACED SOME CAUSES SUCH AS CONSERVATION AND CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE ENVIRONMENT WHEN PEOPLE DID NOT GIVE IT A LOT OF THOUGHT. WHAT IS HIS CONTRIBUTION IN THAT AREA, GIVEN THAT YOU HAVE MADE A BIG CONTRIBUTION? HE WAS RIGHT IN THERE AT THE BEGINNING. YOU SAY CORRECTLY IT WAS AT A TIME WHEN CONSERVATION DID NOT MEAN MUCH TO MANY PEOPLE. BUT HE, BACK IN THE EARLY, MID 1950S AND 60S, WHEN THE WORD CONSERVATION HAD HARDLY OPENED UP, HE SAW IT HERE BUT HE ALSO SAW IT UNIVERSALLY. THE WORLD WILDLIFE FUND AS IT WAS THEN CALLED, OWED A HUGE AMOUNT TO HIM AND HIS PRESENCE AND THE FACT THAT HE MADE A REAL ISSUE AND AN IMPORTANT ISSUE, NOT SOMETHING TO BE BRUSHED ASIDE OR A PAST TIME. IT WAS VERY IMPORTANT. WHEN HE SPOKE ABOUT IT, HE SPOKE WITH A PASSION OF A MAN WHO CARED ABOUT IT BUT ALSO KNEW ABOUT IT AND KNEW ABOUT IT A LOT. HE CAMPAIGNED WITH VIGOUR. HE WANTED RESULTS. HE IS KNOWN AS AN ACTION MAN. WHAT WOULD YOU POINT TO TODAY AS SOME OF THE THINGS HE ACHIEVED IN THIS AREA, WHICH LET'S SAY A YOUNGER GENERATION NOT FAMILIAR WITH PRINCE PHILIP WOULD BE ABLE TO RECOGNISE? THE FACT THAT CONSERVATION NOW IS A WORLDWIDE SENSITIVITY. PEOPLE KNOW WORLDWIDE, NOT JUST IN THIS COUNTRY. PEOPLE USED TO THINK LOOKING AFTER RARE BIRDS IS INTERESTING BUT NOT ESSENTIAL. BUT WE NOW KNOW IT IS MORE CENTRAL THAN WE REALISED BACK IN THE 50S AND THE 60S. THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD NOW DEPENDS ON US SOLVING THESE PROBLEMS. IF PEOPLE ARE AWARE THAT THERE ARE PROBLEMS, A GREAT DEAL OF THAT AWARENESS IS DUE TO THE FACT THAT HE MADE IT CLEAR. IT IS A VERY BIG TRIBUTE TO PAY TO PUT IN THAT CONTEXT. THERE HAS BEEN DEBATE ABOUT BRITAIN'S PLACE IN THE WORLD, NOT LEAST IN THE LAST FEW YEARS WITH ALL THE POLITICAL DEBATE AROUND THAT. WILL THIS LEAD TO A REVISITING OF THE IMPORTANCE OF THE COMMONWEALTH AND THEN MAYBE A REALIGNING OF THE VISION THAT PRINCE PHILIP HAD FOR THE COMMONWEALTH IN YEARS TO COME? I THINK HE MADE A TREMENDOUS CONTRIBUTION TO THE COMMONWEALTH. IF YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT HE DID IN 1956 WHEN HE CREATED THE COMMONWEALTH STUDY IS A LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE AND THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH AWARDS. HE SAW THERE WAS HUGE COMMON GOOD AND COMMITMENT THAT COULD COME FROM THE COMMONWEALTH. HE THOUGHT IT WAS WORTH A GREAT DEAL OF PERSONAL SACRIFICE BECAUSE OF THE INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY TO DO GOOD. THAT HAS BEEN PASSED ON TO THE NEXT GENERATION. IF YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT DAVID HAS JUST TALKED ABOUT IN TERMS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, HE HAS PASSED THAT ON TO PRINCE CHARLES WHO HAS BEEN PASSIONATE ABOUT THIS ISSUE FOR 50 YEARS. JUST THIS WEEK, NOTWITHSTANDING THE BEREAVEMENT, HE HAD A ROUND TABLE WITH AFRICAN LEADERS TALKING ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY. THIS IS A NEW COMMONWEALTH. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH SAID THE NEW COMMONWEALTH WAS A NEW CONSTRUCT BUILT ON THE HIGHEST IDEALS OF MAN. WE HAVE 54 COUNTRIES NOW, THE LARGEST NUMBER, MORE COUNTRIES WANTING TO JOIN. THAT IS PART OF HIS LEGACY AND HER MAJESTY'S LEGACY. THEY WERE MODERNISERS BACK IN THE 1950S AND WHAT IS EXTRAORDINARY IS THEY HAVE BEEN MODERNISERS FOR 70 YEARS. THAT COMMITMENT TO THE COMMONWEALTH FAMILY HAS BEEN FELT SO DEEPLY BY ALL OF THE LEADERS IN THE COMMONWEALTH TODAY. HE IS BEING HONOURED BY ONE THIRD OF HUMANITY IN 54 COUNTRIES. THE COMMONWEALTH HAS A GREAT FUTURE AND HAS THAT BECAUSE OF HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN AND BECAUSE OF PRINCE PHILIP AND ALSO THE TOTAL COMMITMENT THERE IS NOW FROM PRINCE CHARLES AND THE REST OF THE FAMILY AND THE 54 LEADERS WORKING TOGETHER FOR HUMANITY. I THINK IT HAS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR US. SUCH IMPORTANT THEMES FOR US TO SET OUT AT THE START OF THIS COVERAGE TODAY. WE WILL PAUSE THERE FOR A MOMENT. JUST TO SAY THAT TODAY'S EVENTS HAVE BEEN PLANNED DOWN TO THE LAST SECOND, AS YOU WOULD EXPECT WHEN BRITISH THEIR CEREMONIAL EVENTS TAKE PLACE. JUST A SHORT WHILE AGO WHEN BRITISH CEREMONIAL EVENTS TAKE PLACE. JUST A SHORT WHILE AGO AS AN EXAMPLE, THE ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY PROJECT WINDSOR CASTLE VIA THE LONG WALK. WHAT AN IMPRESSIVE SIGHT. THIS GLORIOUS SUNNY DAY. IT IS THEIR DUTY TO FIRE THE GUNS. THEY WERE FIRED ON THE DAY OF THE WEDDING OF PRINCESS ELIZABETH AND THE DUKE IN 1947. THIS TIME TO FIRE THE GUNS FOR THE FUNERAL PROCESSION ON THE EAST LAWN OF WINDSOR CASTLE. BY 2.15, THE KINGS' TROOPS AND ALL THE MILITARY ELEMENTS WILL BE IN PLACE IN THE QUADRANGLE IN WINDSOR CASTLE. AND THEN WHEN ALL THE PARTICIPANTS ARE IN PLACE, THE PROCESSION WILL STEP OFF FROM THE QUADRANGLE, AND SENIOR MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY WILL WALK BEHIND THE HEARSE AS IT MAKES ITS WAY DOWN THE HILL TO ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL. THE MINUTE'S SILENCE WILL BE OBSERVED THROUGHOUT THE UNITED KINGDOM, AFTER WHICH THE FUNERAL SERVICE WILL BEGIN. OUR UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THE QUEEN HAS TAKEN THE DECISION TO FOLLOW THE FUNERAL PROCESSION IN THE STATE BENTLEY INSTEAD OF TAKING THE LEAD, AS THE SOVEREIGN WOULD NORMALLY DO. THAT IS A SIGNIFICANT STATEMENT. IT IS, OF COURSE, A VERY SPECIAL OCCASION. IT IS A MOMENT OF HISTORY, WITHOUT QUESTION. THE FUNERAL IS SMALLER IN SCALE BUT NO LESS POIGNANT FOR ALL OF THAT. WE WILL HAVE FULL COVERAGE OF ALL THE DAY'S EVENTS, BUT IF YOU WOULD LIKE UNACCOMPANIED COVERAGE, YOU CAN USE THE SERVICE THAT WE HAVE FOR YOU ON THE RED BUTTON. SO LET'S JOIN MY COLLEAGUE SOPHIE RAWORTH. SOPHIE, LET US JOIN YOU. I AM HERE ON THE LONG WALK. THIS 2.5-MILE LONG ROUTE THAT STRETCHES FROM THE STATUE OF KING GEORGE III RIGHT UP TO THE GATES OF WINDSOR CASTLE. NORMALLY, THE LONG WALK WOULD HAVE BEEN PACKED WITH THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WHO WOULD HAVE COME HERE TO PAY THEIR LAST RESPECTS TO THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, BUT INSTEAD TODAY, EVERYTHING IS TAKING PLACE INSIDE THE CASTLE WALLS. THERE ARE REALLY VERY FEW PEOPLE OUT HERE THIS AFTERNOON. THEY DO SEEM TO HAVE HEEDED THE WISHES OF BUCKINGHAM PALACE TO STAY AWAY. LATER THIS AFTERNOON, I WILL BE TALKING TO PEOPLE WHO KNEW THE DUKE, SOME OF THE REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE OVER 1000 CHARITIES THAT HE SUPPORTED OVER 70 YEARS. WE WILL BE TALKING TO A EXPLORER WHO DESCRIBES THE DUKE AS A SURROGATE FATHER TO HIM, AND HE DISCOVERED HIS OWN SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE WHEN HE DID THE 'DUKE OF EDINBURGH' AWARD AT THE AGE OF 13. SOPHIE THERE ON THE LONG WALK ON THE APPROACH TO WINDSOR CASTLE THROUGH THE PARK. MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES ARE FORMING UP. THEY WILL BE TAKING THEIR PLACES WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. THERE WE HAVE THE FAMOUS BLUES AND ROYALS OF THE HOUSEHOLD CAVALRY. IN THE PARK, WE HAVE MY COLLEAGUE ` HIMSELF A FORMER VETERAN ` JJ CHAlMERS. I AM ABOUT 300M FROM THE FRONT GATES OF WINDSOR. IT WILL TAKE THE TROOPS JUST A FEW MINUTES TO MAKE THE PROCESSION. TODAY IT IS THE FORMING-UP POINT FOR THE OVER 700 MILITARY TODAY IT IS THE FORMING-UP POINT FOR THE OVER 700 MILITARY PERSONNEL. YOU CAN SEE OVER MY SHOULDER THAT THEY ARE SLOWLY FALLING IN AND TAKING POSITION. THEY HAVE BEEN REHEARSING ALL WEEK FOR THIS. THE DUKE HIMSELF WAS INVOLVED IN THE PLANNING AND PREPARATION OF THIS EVENT. HE WAS A HUMBLE MAN. HE KNEW WHEN AND WHEN NOT TO USE POMP AND CEREMONY. THIS IS THE MILITARY SPECTACULAR WE FEEL HE DESERVED. THERE IS A SENSE OF ANTICIPATION FOR WHAT IS TO COME. JJ, MANY THANKS. WE WILL BE BACK SHORTLY TO SEE WHAT IS GOING ON THERE, BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY, THERE IS PLENTY TO SEE IN TERMS OF THE VARIOUS UNITS AND REGIMENTS AND ATTACHMENTS COMING TOGETHER. WE WILL SEE THEM LATER. LET ME SAY THOSE REGIMENTS, ATTACHMENTS AND UNITS WHO HAD A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE DUKE. THEY WILL BE VERY MUCH PART OF TODAY'S EVENTS. SO WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING THE VARIOUS TROOPS FORMING. WE WILL EXPLAIN A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DUKE AND THE ROYAL NAVY AND THE ROYAL AIR FORCE AND THE GRENADIER GUARDS. MUCH OF THE WEEK HAS FEATURED TRIBUTES TO THE DUKE'S SUPPORT OF MANY SERVICES, BUT AT THE HEART OF TODAY'S SERVICE IS A FAMILY MOURNING THE LOSS OF A MUCH-LOVED FIGURE. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN HAS LOST HER HUSBAND OF 73 YEARS. PRINCE CHARLES, ANNE, ANDREW AND EDWARD HAVE LOST THEIR FATHER. HERE ARE SOME OF THE TRIBUTES OF THE PAST EIGHT DAYS. WE WERE ALWAYS AWARE THAT THERE WAS A TIME SET ASIDE, PARTICULARLY IN THE EVENINGS AND THAT, IF HE WAS AROUND, HE WOULD ALWAYS COME UP AND HE WOULD BE THERE. THAT WAS FOR READING AND STORYTIME. I REMEMBER HIM AS A MAN WHO LOVED THE FAMILY, LOVED BEING AROUND IN SCOTLAND. HE WAS JUST EXTRAORDINARY IN THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES. MY FATHER WAS ALWAYS A GREAT SOURCE OF ENCOURAGEMENT AND GUIDANCE ALL THE WAY THROUGH AND NEVER TRIED TO CURTAIL ANY OF THE ACTIVITIES THAT WE WANTED TO TRY AND DO. I PERSONALLY WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN THE 'DUKE OF EDINBURGH' AWARD IF IT WAS NOT FOR HIM AND HIM ENCOURAGING ME TO BE INVOLVED IN ALL OTHER ASPECTS OF THE AWARD AFTER THAT. WHEN I WAS YOUNGER, I WOULD LISTEN TO HIM A LOT AND TALK TO HIM A LOT ABOUT HIS EFFORTS IN THE WORLD WILDLIFE FUND. WE DID TALK QUITE A LOT ABOUT THOSE THINGS. I SUSPECT I WAS PROBABLY QUITE INFLUENCED BY THAT. AS YOU GROW OLDER, YOU ARE EXPECTED TO HAVE A DEGREE OF DISCIPLINE AND MANNERS IN YOUR LIFE. VERY OFTEN IF YOU DIDN'T DO THAT, YOU WOULD KNOW ABOUT IT. BUT THERE WAS A HUGE AMOUNT OF ENCOURAGEMENT TO DO THINGS AND QUITE A LOT OF LEEWAY IN PUSHING YOUR OWN BOUNDARIES. HE WAS INSPIRATIONAL IN GETTING ME TO JOIN THE NAVY BUT NOT FOR THE REASONS THAT YOU MIGHT THINK. HE TOOK ME FLYING IN A HELICOPTER WHEN I WAS VERY, VERY SMALL. IT ALWAYS STUCK WITH ME THAT THAT WAS WHAT I WANTED TO DO. AND WE NEVER REALLY DISCUSSED IT, AS TO WHETHER OR NOT I SHOULD GO INTO THE NAVY, BUT IT WAS A LOGICAL CONCLUSION, BECAUSE THAT IS THE BEST PLACE TO FLY HELICOPTERS. HE TAUGHT ME HOW TO PLAY POLO AND THAT SORT OF THING. HE TRIED TO TEACH ME HOW TO DRIVE A CARRIAGE, BUT I WAS NOT VERY GOOD AT THAT. I WILL CERTAINLY REMEMBER HIM AS SOMEBODY YOU COULD ALWAYS TURN TO IN GOOD TIMES AND IN BAD. AND THAT HE WOULD ALWAYS MANAGE TO FIND SOMETHING THAT YOU COULD TURN INTO A POSITIVE AND HELP YOU TO LOOK FORWARD. I THINK HE WAS SOMEBODY WHO DID HIS DUTY, YOU KNOW, BY THIS COUNTRY AND OBVIOUSLY BY MY MOTHER. SOME OF THOSE LOVELY TRIBUTES THAT WE HAVE HEARD THIS WEEK. AND STANDING BY, KNOWING THAT THEY ARE PLAYING SUCH AN IMPORTANT PART IN TODAY'S EVENTS, THE GRENADIER GUARDS. THEY REALLY HAVE SUCH AN IMPORTANT RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ROYAL FAMILY BUT ESPECIALLY WITH THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH. HE TOOK OVER AS THEIR COLONEL IN 1975. HE SERVED THERE FOR 42 YEARS. HE WAS VERY PROUD OF THEIR ASSOCIATION. HE SERVED IN THE NAVY. A BIT OF A CULTURE TRANSITION FOR HIM ` HE BECAME THE COLONEL OF THE WELSH GUARDS INITIALLY. THEN HE TOOK OVER THE GRENADIER GUARDS. HE WAS VERY, GUARDS INITIALLY. THEN HE TOOK OVER THE GRENADIER GUARDS. HE WAS VERY, VERY KEEN TO MAINTAIN A CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE GRENADIERS AND ATTENDED LOTS OF THEIR EVENTS. THEY WILL BE LEADING THE FUNERAL PROCESSION TODAY. THAT IS THE BURDEN THAT THEY ARE BEARING. THEY WILL LEAD TO THE PROCESSION DOWN CHAPEL HILL TO ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL WITH THE HEARSE BEHIND THEM ` A SPECIALLY CONVERTED LAND ROVER DESIGNED BY THE DUKE HIMSELF, AND WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING THAT A LITTLE BIT LATER. IT IS A VERY SPECIAL FEATURE OF TODAY'S EVENTS. THE GRENADIERS WILL LEAD THAT PROCESSION WITH MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY AND, OF COURSE, THE QUEEN A LITTLE LATER ON. JUST A WORD THERE ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THOSE VERY SMARTLY TURNED-OUT FOOT GUARDS TODAY. THE GRENADIERS ARE CERTAINLY PRIDE OF PLACE WHEN IT COMES TO THAT FUNERAL PROCESSION. I AM GLAD TO SIT HERE IN THE STUDIO. SIR DAVID IS STILL WITH US. WE HAVE BEEN JOINED BY SOMEONE WHO KNOWS THE DUKE VERY WELL FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE. RICHARD GRIFFIN IS A FORMER PERSONAL PROTECTION OFFICER FOR THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH. IT IS REALLY GOOD TO HAVE YOU WITH US TODAY. WE HAVE TALKED A LOT ALREADY IN THIS PROGRAMME ABOUT THE CHARACTER OF THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, BECAUSE PEOPLE HAVE A SENSE OF A ROBUST MAN, SOMEONE WITH A PRETTY STRONG SENSE OF HUMOUR, SOMEONE WHO COULD BE TOO OUTSPOKEN FOR SOME PEOPLE. WHAT WAS HE LIKE TO WORK FOR? WAS HE AS DAUNTING AND FORBIDDING AS THAT SEEMS TO SUGGEST? YES, WHEN I STARTED WORKING FOR HIM, HIS REPUTATION TERRIFIED ME. BUT I QUICKLY REALISED THAT HE WAS A KIND, CONSIDERATE MAN. THE FIRST TIME THAT I WAS INTRODUCED TO HIM, I WAS WORKING FOR PRINCE EDWARD. I WAS INTRODUCED TO HER MAJESTY AND PRINCE PHILIP. I HAD JUST BEEN TRANSFERRED TO BUCKINGHAM PALACE. HE ASKED ME WHAT I DID BEFORE I'D WORKED AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE. I'D RATHER NOT HAVE ANSWERED THAT QUESTION, BECAUSE THE FIVE YEARS PREVIOUSLY, I HAD BEEN DEALING WITH VICE. I HAD BEEN DEALING WITH SEX SHOPS, BROTHELS AND PORNOGRAPHIC CINEMAS. SOMEONE SAID TO ME GOOD GRACIOUS ME. 'WHY SETTLE FOR 'A PROTECTION OFFICER WHEN YOU'VE WORKED VICE?' THE DUKE SAID, 'HE'LL HAVE GREAT PARTIES HERE.' I WAS WITH HIM IN CHINA WHEN HE MADE THOSE FAMOUS COMMENTS, AND HE WAS ALWAYS COMING UP WITH THESE INAPPROPRIATE ONE-LINERS. BUT I REMEMBER ONE DAY IN THE PRESS THEY WERE SAYING THAT PRINCE PHILIP HAD MADE ANOTHER GAFFE, AND I WAS IN THE CAR WITH HIM THE FOLLOWING DAY. I SAID TO HIM THAT I WAS WITH HIM ALL THE TIME YESTERDAY, 'WHEN DID 'YOU SAY THAT?' HE SAID 'I DIDN'T, 'BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING I WOULD'VE, 'SO I MIGHT AS WELL TAKE THE CREDIT FOR IT.' HE WAS SO, SO KIND. OCCASIONALLY, HE WOULD RING UP MY HOUSE. HE KNEW MY PHONE NUMBER AND HE WOULD RING UP. WHEN MY WIFE ANSWERED THE PHONE, SHE WOULD STAND UP AND CURTSY. I USED TO TELL HER HE COULDN'T SEE HER. A WONDERFUL STORY THAT HE USED TO DINE OUT WAS WHEN HE RANG UP AND MY FIVE-YEAR-OLD ANSWERED THE PHONE. MY SON ASKED WHO WAS CALLING. PRINCE PHILIP SAID 'THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH.' PRINCE PHILIP SAID ALL HE COULD HEAR WAS MY LITTLE BOY SAYING, 'DAD, 'SOMEONE FROM THE PUB WANTS TO SPEAK TO YOU.' WHAT YOU ARE OFFERING US IS A VERY DIFFERENT PICTURE, OF SOMEONE WITH A GENTLE SENSE OF HUMOUR AT TIMES, VERY GOOD RAPPORT WITH YOUNG PEOPLE, AS YOU SAY, A REAL SENSE OF BEING KIND TO PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY TO THOSE PEOPLE WHO WORKED WITH HIM AND FOR HIM, AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT IS IMPORTANT TO POINT OUT TODAY. THE STAFF ABSOLUTELY ADORED HIM. HE HAS GOT ONE VALET WITH HIM WHO HAS THE STAFF ABSOLUTELY ADORED HIM. HE HAS GOT ONE VALET WITH HIM WHO HAS BEEN WITH HIM FOR OVER 35 YEARS. HE HAD A PRIVATE SECRETARY WHO UNFORTUNATELY PASSED AWAY, BUT BRIAN HAD BEEN WITH HIM FOR OVER 20 YEARS, AND HE HAD A RETIREMENT PARTY AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE, AND HE STILL CAME BACK TO WORK ON THE MONDAY. HE WAS ASKED WHAT HE WAS DOING THERE, AND BRIAN SAID HE WAS NOT LEAVING. HE TOOK OVER HIS OLD OFFICE, AND THE NEW PRIVATE SECRETARY HAD TO FIND SOMEWHERE ELSE TO WORK. BRIAN CONTINUED TO WORK FOR ANOTHER FIVE YEARS, BECAUSE HE LOVED BEING AROUND PRINCE PHILIP. YOU MENTIONED EARLIER ABOUT THE VERY BIG PROJECTS AND MISSIONS AND PASSIONS, DAVID, TO DO WITH CONSERVATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT, BUT WHEN YOU DEALT WITH HIM, WHEN YOU DISCUSSED THINGS WITH HIM, DID YOU GET THE SENSE OF A MAN WHO HAD A VERY DIFFERENT PUBLIC PERSONA TO THE ONE BEHIND THE SCENES? HE WAS A MOST EXTRAORDINARY AMALGAM OF TWO THINGS. HE WAS THAT CONSIDERATE, CHARMING, WITTY HUMAN BEING THAT YOU HAVE JUST SPOKEN ABOUT, BUT HE WAS ALSO ACTUALLY VERY FORMIDABLE. HE WAS A REAL PRESENCE. AND IT WAS AN EXTRAORDINARY BALANCING ACT IN WHICH HE COMBINED FORMALITY WITH ACTUALLY SOMETHING THAT YOU KNEW THAT HE WAS NOT AS OTHER MEN. WHEN HE CAME INTO THE ROOM, YOU KNEW ABOUT IT. AND IT WAS SOMETHING INDESCRIBABLE. HUMAN BEINGS WANT PEOPLE WHO ARE SPECIAL. HUMAN SOCIETIES WANT TO BE LED BY PEOPLE WHO ARE SPECIAL. 400 YEARS AGO, KINGS AND QUEENS HAD A DIVINE RIGHT, BUT OF COURSE WE DO NOT BELIEVE THEY ARE GODS ANYMORE IN THAT SENSE, BUT THERE WAS SOMETHING VERY POSITIVE. HE KNEW HOW TO HANDLE IT. HE KNEW HOW TO PUT YOU AT EASE. BUT WHEN IT WAS REQUIRED, IT WAS THERE. I THINK THAT IS A GOOD POINT AT WHICH TO PAUSE. THANK YOU, SIR DAVID. THANK YOU FOR THOSE ANECDOTES. IT HELPS US TO UNDERSTAND THE MAN WHO IS BEING LAID TO REST. OVER HIS LIFETIME, THE DUKE WAS ASSOCIATED WITH OVER A THOUSAND ASSOCIATIONS, MANY CHARITIES. WE GO TO SOPHIE NOW WHO HAS SOMEONE FROM HIS FIRST CHARITY. IT WAS ORIGINALLY CALLED THE LONDON FEDERATION OF BOYS CLUB AND BACK IN 1947 THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH BECAME ITS PATRON AND IT WAS SOMETHING HE STAYED WITH THROUGHOUT HIS LIFETIME. IT HAS NOW BEEN RENAMED THE LONDON YOUTH. I AM NOW BEING JOINED BY A FORMER MEMBER VICTORIA. AND YOU SHOWED THE DUKE AROUND ONLY THREE YEARS AGO. YOU TOOK HUNDREDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE THERE TO SHOW HIM. IT WAS A GREAT DAY. IT WAS CELEBRATING THE ANNIVERSARY OF LONDON YOUTH. IT WAS SO IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE TO SEE THAT A MAN FROM A DIFFERENT GENERATION WANTS TO HEAR THE VOICES OF YOUNG PEOPLE. WE HAD ACTIVITIES LIKE ROCKCLIMBING AND TENNIS AND FOOTBALL. IT WAS A GREAT DAY. 96 YEARS OLD AT THE TIME. HE HAD STEPPED BACK FROM PUBLIC DUTIES BUT HE HAD SHOWED GREAT INTEREST. THERE WAS A LOT HAPPENING ON THE DAY, BUT HE WAS SO DETERMINED TO UNDERSTAND THE VIEWPOINTS OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE AND REALLY LISTEN TO THEIR STORIES AND IT WAS A GREAT EXPERIENCE. WE HAVE HEARD TODAY WHAT A GREAT PRESENCE HE WAS. THAT WAS SOMETHING YOU RECOGNISE DON'T YOU? IT WAS THE WORK WITH LONDON YOUTH THAT HE DID. HE WAS SO PASSIONATE IN MEETING THE YOUNG PEOPLE AND UNDERSTANDING THEIR STORIES. IT WAS A GREAT EXPERIENCE. AND HIS SERVICE TO LONDON YOUTH OVER THE 70 YEARS. GREAT TO HAVE THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE VERY FIRST CHARITY THAT HE WAS PATRON OF. THANK YOU, SOPHIE. LET'S GO TO WINDSOR GREAT PARK. WE WANT TO CELEBRATE THE ENVIRONS. IT IS SUCH A GOOD VIEW. I TOLD YOU EARLIER ABOUT THE GRENADIER GUARDS. THEY PLAY SUCH AN IMPORTANT ROLE. THE PEOPLE JUST JOINING US FOR THE SPECIAL COVERAGE TODAY FROM WINDSOR FOR THE FUNERAL OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, I WANT TO OUTLINE THE IMPORTANT PART THE GRENADIER GUARDS WILL PLAY. THE FOOT GUARDS ARE THE QUEEN'S PERSONAL GUARDS. THEY ARE VERY MUCH A PART OF THE COMMUNITY. THE GRENADIER GUARDS TODAY ARE MISSING THE SPECIAL MAN WHO HAS BEEN THE COLONEL FOR 42 YEARS, BEING LAID TO REST. THEY WANT TO MARK THAT PROPERLY AND MARK IT WITH DIGNITY. THEY WANT TO PLAY THEIR OWN SOLEMN PART IN THIS PROCESSION. YOU SEE THE INSTRUMENTS THERE, THE DRUMS. YOU WILL SEE A LOT OF THOSE LITTLE EMBLEMS OF GRIEF AND MOURNING AS WE GO THROUGH THE DAY. LET'S CELEBRATE WITH THE GRENADIER GUARDS AS WE LOOK AT THE LONG ASSOCIATION BETWEEN THE DUKE AND THE GRENADIER GUARDS. (SOMBRE MUSIC) ALTHOUGH THE NEWS WAS NOT UNEXPECTED, WHEN IT CAME THROUGH, IT WAS SHOCKING. I WAS VERY UPSET. REGARDLESS OF THE AGE, YOU JUST THINK SOMEBODY IS GOING TO LIVE FOREVER. THAT SENSE OF LOSS AND SADNESS IS VERY MUCH APPARENT. HE WAS NOT ONLY AN AMAZING FIGURE TO LOOK BACK ON AND SEE WHAT HE HAS ACHIEVED BUT ALSO TO LOOK UP TO. HE WAS A PATRON OF 800 ORGANISATIONS AND THEY WERE ALL COMPETING FOR HIS TIME AND AMONGST THOSE WAS THE GRENADIER GUARDS. HE WAS COLONEL FOR 42 YEARS. HE WOULD ALWAYS FIND TIME TO VISIT THE GRENADIER GUARDS. HE WANTED TO KNOW THE SOLDIERS AND THEIR FAMILIES AND BE MORE THAN JUST A FIGUREHEAD. HE WANTED TO PROVIDE THAT PRACTICAL SUPPORT AND I THINK IT WAS FOR THAT VERY REASON THAT HE WAS SO KEEN TO CREATE THE COLONEL'S FUND. IT FOLLOWED THE BATTALION'S DEPLOYMENT TO AFGHANISTAN IN 2007 WHERE IT PROVIDES FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO BEREAVED FAMILIES AND SOLDIERS WHO HAVE BEEN INJURED. IT IS THRIVING TODAY. I LOST A SON IN AFGHANISTAN 13TH OF FEBRUARY 2010. DAVID. HE LOVED BEING A SOLDIER AND HE WAS VERY PROUD TO BE A GRENADIER GUARD. PRINCE PHILIP CAME TO PASS ON HIS CONDOLENCES. HE WANTED YOU TO KNOW THAT HE REALLY DID CARE. IT WAS AS IF HE COULD FEEL YOUR PAIN. I ACTUALLY SAID TO HIM IF IT WASN'T FOR THE COLONEL'S FUND, WE WOULD NOT BE HERE TODAY, SOME OF US. HIS ENTIRE PERSONA SCREAMS EVERYTHING YOU SHOULD LOOK UP TO AS A PERSON. IT IS SOMETHING YOU SHOULD WANT TO ASPIRE TO ACHIEVE. WE HAVE LOST A GREAT MAN. HE HAS DONE SO MUCH FOR ALL OF US AS A NATION AND FOR US AS GRENADIERS. IT IS SOMETHING WE ARE ALL GOING TO FEEL THE EFFECT OF. VERY ELOQUENT TESTIMONY THERE FROM ONE OF THE YOUNG GUARDSMEN IN THE GRENADIER GUARDS. WE ARE LOOKING AT THE RIFLES. THE BAND AND BUGLES OF THE RIFLES. THEY WILL BE POSITIONED NEAR ST GEORGE'S CHAPEL, THEY WILL BE IN THE HORSESHOE CLOISTER NEAR THE WESTERN DOOR OF ST GEORGE'S CHAPEL. IT IS THEIR DUTY TO PLAY THE NATIONAL AT THEM, THE ROYAL SALUTE, WHEN THE HEARSE APPROACHES THE CLOISTER. JUST A FEW MOMENTS BEFORE WE ARRIVE AT THE CHAPEL ITSELF. THERE WILL BE A VERY REPRESENTATIVE NUMBER OF MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL NAVY AS WELL AS PART OF EVENTS OF THE DAY. HE WAS LORD HIGH ADMIRAL OF THE ROYAL NAVY, THE HIGHEST RANK OF THE ROYAL NAVY THAT WAS AWARDED JUST A FEW YEARS AGO BY THE QUEEN TO RECOGNISE HIS ASTONISHING SERVICE THERE. TALKING ABOUT THE FOOT GUARDS, THE GRENADIER GUARDS, AND IT GIVES ME GREAT PLEASURE TO INTRODUCE MY TWO NEXT GUESTS. MAJOR GENERAL CHRISTOPHER IN CHARGE OF THE HOUSEHOLD TROOPS ON PARADE TODAY. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US TODAY. YOU HAVE SO MUCH ON YOUR MINDS TODAY. I WOULD LIKE TO ASK YOU BOTH ARE RELATIVELY PERSONAL QUESTION TO START. THAT IS ABOUT THE SENSE OF RESPONSABILITY YOU BOTH HAVE TAKING PART IN TODAY'S EVENTS, NOT LEAST BECAUSE OF THE LINK WITH THE GRENADIERS, WHICH WE HAVE TOLD THE AUDIENCE ABOUT IN THE LAST FEW MINUTES, AND AS COLONEL THAT THE DUKE SERVED. TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE SENSE OF THE REGIMENT'S LOSS AND WHAT IS IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO MARK TODAY? I THINK IN TERMS OF MARKING, IT IS EVIDENTLY CLEAR TO US THAT THIS IS A FAMILY THAT IS GRIEVING. SO IN A SMALL WAY, IF WE CAN HELP MARK THE PASSING OF A MAN OF SUBSTANTIAL STATURE BY ANY MEASURE I THINK, GIVEN THE SPAN OF HIS LIFE AND WHAT HE WAS WITNESS TO AND WHAT HE WAS A PARTICIPANT OF, THEN I THINK WE ARE DOING OUR DUTY. BUT THIS IS MORE THAN A DUTY. THIS IS A PRIVILEGE. HE PLANNED THIS. WE ARE HERE BECAUSE HE WANTED US TO BE HERE, AND DOWN TO THE JUNIOR GUARDSMEN IS A KNOWN FACT. I WILL TALK TO THE MAJOR GENERAL ABOUT THIS PLANNING ASPECT. AS WE UNDERSTAND IT, THE ORIGINAL LARGERSCALE EVENT THAT WOULD HAVE OCCURRED HAS UNAVOIDABLY BEEN CHANGED BECAUSE OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES WE FIND OURSELVES IN, BUT HE STILL WANTED A VERY BIG SAY, DOWN TO THE LAST DETAILS, ABOUT HOW THIS WOULD TAKE PLACE SAY ABOUT THE GRENADIER GUARDS, WHAT WAS THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE GRENADIER GUARDS? THERE IS A CLOSE BOND BUT HOW DOES IT MANIFEST ITSELF? WHAT DID HE DO THAT WAS SO SPECIAL? I KNEW HIM AS A GRENADIER. BECAUSE HE WAS SO INTERESTED IN THE MEN AND THEIR FAMILIES, I THINK HE WAS AMUSED BY SOME OF OUR REGIMENTAL IDIOSYNCRASIES, BUT IT WAS PERSONAL, I COULD BE FORGIVEN FOR THINKING THAT WAS ALL THAT MATTERED TO HIM. EVIDENTLY BY WHO IS HERE TODAY THAT IS NOT THE CASE. I THINK FOR HIM, THE RELATIONSHIP WITH US AS A REGIMENT IN THE ARMED FORCES REFLECTED A DEEP APPRECIATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ARMED FORCES AND HE WITNESSED THAT FIRST HAND IN PERIL. I THINK IT IS A REFLECTION TO US AS A REGIMENT WITH THE VERY CLOSE ASSOCIATION WE HAVE WITH THE SOVEREIGN, THE QUEEN, AND HE WAS A LIVING PROOF OF THAT LINK, WHICH IS WHY GRENADIERS WILL STAND A BIT TALLER WHEN THAT ASSOCIATION IS CLEAR. MAJOR GENERAL, THERE WILL BE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD FOCUSING ON THE EVENTS HERE IN WINDSOR AND IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL OF THE HOUSEHOLD DIVISION IS DOING WHAT IT NORMALLY DOES, WHICH IS TO REALLY BE PIN SHARP AND TO BE IN A POSITION WHERE THEY EXPRESS PRIDE IN THE KIND OF THINGS THAT BRITAIN DOES SO WELL, BUT BEHIND THAT WE HAVE THIS BOND BETWEEN THE HOUSEHOLD DIVISION AND THE SOVEREIGN AND THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH. HELP VIEWERS WITH THE NATURE OF THAT BOND, HOW DOES THAT MANIFEST ITSELF AND HOW THE HOUSEHOLD DIVISION OPERATES? WE ARE AROUND THE ROYAL FAMILY AND TROOPING THE COLOUR AND STATE VISITS AND WE CONDUCT THOSE DUTIES FOR THE QUEEN. THIS HAS BEEN A CASE OF REFINING A PLAN WHICH HAS BEEN MANY YEARS IN THE MAKING AND THEN REDUCING NUMBERS AND ENSURING THAT IS COVID COMPLIANT AND ENSURING THAT IT IS A TRIBUTE TO A MUCH LOVED NATIONAL FIGURE AND THAT IS THE WORK FOR THE LAST WEEK. I ASSUMING YOU WOULD BE AT ONE WITH ROLAND WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT DUTY OVERLAID WITH THE HIGHEST PRIVILEGE? YES. I THINK THAT EVERYONE HERE TODAY, A SLIGHTLY REDUCED NUMBER, ARE HERE BECAUSE THEY HAVE A CONNECTION WITH THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH AND THEY ARE HERE AT HIS BEHEST. WE ARE FORTUNATE TO TAKE PART IN THIS EVENT. IT IS AN HISTORIC PRIVILEGE. I HOPE TO PAY TRIBUTE TO THIS REMARKABLE MAN. YOU HAVE A LOT TO DEAL WITH TODAY. WE ARE VERY GRATEFUL FOR YOU COMING ALONG AND LETTING VIEWERS KNOW. WE WERE TALKING EARLIER ABOUT ST GEORGE'S CHAPEL. IT HAS BEEN A PLACE FOR WORSHIP AND CHRISTENINGS AND AND WEDDINGS AND BURIALS FOR CENTURIES. HENRY VIII AND GEORGE III AND EDWARD VII BURIED HERE AND THE QUEEN'S PARENTS, GEORGE VI AND QHEEN ELIZABETH, THE QUEEN MOTHER. IT STANDS IN A MARKED CONTRAST WITH THE OVERFLOWING CROWD THAT WAS HERE FOR HARRY AND MEGHAN'S WEDDING. THIS IS A SPIRITUAL HOME OF THE ORDER OF THE GARTER. PHILIP'S GARTER BANNER HAS ALREADY BEEN TAKEN DOWN, BUT HIS ENAMELLED PLATE IS STILL THERE AND THERE IS A WREATH OF LAUREL PLACED THERE AS A SYMBOL OF HONOUR. THE CHOIR OF ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL HAS BEEN REDUCED TO JUST FOUR SINGERS. BUT IT IS A MAGNIFICENT SOUND, HAVING HEARD THEM IN THE LAST FEW DAYS. THE MUSIC HAS BEEN SELECTED BY THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH IN RECENT YEARS. AT THE END OF SERVICE, PRINCE PHILIP WILL BE LAID TO REST IN THE ROYAL VAULT WHICH LAYS DEEP IN THE CHAPEL. THAT WILL BE AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE FUNERAL SERVICE. IT WILL BE VERY TRUE TO THE TRADITIONS OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. THERE WAS A TIME WHEN PRINCE PHILIP ADMITTED THAT HE QUESTIONED HIS FAITH. INDEED, THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY HAS SAID IN THE PAST THAT FAITH REALLY DOES HAVE TO BE TESTED. BUT THE FUNERAL SERVICE TODAY WILL CONFIRM THE CENTRAL PART OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN THE DUKE'S LIFE. TO DISCUSS THIS FURTHER, I AM JOINED BY THE FORMER ARCHBISHOP OF YORK. DR SENTAMU, IT IS VERY GOOD TO HAVE YOU WITH US. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. A THOUGHT FOR VIEWERS TODAY WITH PRINCE PHILIP BEING LAID TO REST ` THERE IS A SENSE OF GRIEF FOR LOTS OF PEOPLE, A SENSE OF LOSS, NOT JUST IN THE ARMED FORCES BUT, OF COURSE, IN THE FAMILY ` GOES WITHOUT SAYING, BUT FOR OTHERS ALSO WHO HAD NOT MET THE DUKE. BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN SUCH A PROMINENT PART OF BRITISH LIFE FOR DECADES, THEY TOO FEEL A SENSE OF LOSS. WHAT IS YOUR MESSAGE TO THEM AS A PROMINENT FAITH LEADER ON A DAY LIKE THIS? MY MESSAGE IS REALLY SOMETHING THAT THE DUKE SAID TO ME AFTER 1992, THAT TERRIBLE YEAR. SHADOWS HAD PASSED. AND HE SAYS TO ME AT THE VERY, VERY END, 'MIGHTIER THAN THE THUNDERS OF MANY WATERS, MIGHTIER THAN THE WAVES OF 'THE SEA, THE LORD ON HIGH IS MIGHTIER' ` PSALM 94:3. THAT ENCAPSULATED` THIS IS INSCRIBED ON A BIG STONE ON HOLY ISLAND. BELOW, SOMEONE HAS PUT A GOOD RESPONSE ` 'GOD IS GREATER THAN ALL OUR TROUBLES.' THERE WAS A SMILE ON HIS FACE. I WANT TO SAY TO THEM THAT WHATEVER YOU ARE GOING THROUGH, ACTUALLY, PRINCE PHILIP HAD THIS VERY, VERY DEEP FAITH WHICH ALLOWED HIM TO QUESTION. AND FAITH WITHOUT QUESTION IS ACTION NOT WORTH LIVING. BECAUSE HE QUESTIONED, HIS FAITH IN CHRIST GREW DEEPER AND DEEPER, AND HE WAS THEREFORE FREE TO WELCOME ANYONE WHETHER THEY HAD RELIGION OR NOT, BECAUSE HE WAS VERY SAFE IN HIS OWN FAITH. I WANT TO SAY TO PEOPLE WHO ARE WATCHING TODAY A PRAYER THAT HE LOVED ` 'SUPPORT US, OH, LORD, ALL THE DAY UNTIL THE 'SHADOWS LENGTHEN, THE EVENING COMES AND THE BUSY WORLD IS HUSHED AND THE WORK IS DONE. THEN, LORD, IN THY MERCY, GRANT US PEACE AT THE END.' SO ACTUALLY, THAT IS WHAT PEOPLE TODAY SHOULD FOCUS ON. HE WOULD HAVE FOCUSED ON THE PEOPLE AND HIS SERVICE. HE WOULD NOT FOCUS ON HIMSELF AND HIS MISERIES. A BEAUTIFUL MESSAGE. I KNEW YOU MET HIM MANY TIMES OVER THE YEARS. WE HAVE HEARD ABOUT HIS INTEREST IN PEOPLE. THE FACT THAT HE HAD A BIT OF A DUAL PERSONALITY THE PUBLIC PERSONA AND THE PRIVATE MAN. WHAT IMPRESSION DID HE MAKE ON YOU? I USED TO PREACH IN SANDRINGHAM ON THE WEEKEND. HE USED TO DO A BARBECUE. HE IS REALLY, REALLY DOWN TO EARTH. HE WASN'T ACTUALLY GIVEN TO POMPOSITY. HE DID NOT LIKE IT. HE LOVED WHAT HE CALLED 'SHORT SERVICES, 'NOT LONG CHURCH'. HE WAS A REAL LOVER OF A PATRICULAR PRAYER, BECAUSE IT ACTUALLY SAYS EVERYTHING IT SHOULD QUITE BEAUTIFULLY IN HUMBLE WORDS. IN COMMUNION SERVICES, HE SAID THAT THE SERMON SHOULD BE SHORT, BECAUSE IT LEADS TO THE CRESCENDO OF COMMUNION. AND IT SHOULD NOT TAKE OVER, SO HE... AND THE OTHER THING WAS HE KNEW THE BIBLE. AND IF PEOPLE MISQUOTED IT, HE WOULD IMMEDIATELY TELL THEM AFTERWARDS. 'IT WAS THE WRONG VERSE IN THE WRONG BOOK.' HE WAS ABLE TO HAVE A LIFE THAT WAS STABLE BECAUSE HE KNEW THE SCRIPTURES. HE WAS NOT OPPOSED TO CHANGE, BECAUSE HE WAS VERY STABLE. AND I LOVED WHEN HE WOULD TALK TO ME ABOUT HOW THE BIRDS FLY. 'YOU KNOW WHAT IS IMPORTANT ABOUT BIRDS? WHEN 'THEY TAKE OFF, THEY GO SO HIGH, BUT ALL THE TIME, THEIR FEET ARE 'POINTING TO THE GROUND, AND THAT IS 'WHY THEY WOULD LAND VERY SAFELY.' THAT IS A NICE MESSAGE. THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS TO LOOK FORWARD TO TODAY, AND I WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR GIVING US SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT WHEN THE FUNERAL STARTS. THE QUEEN ON WEDNESDAY, SHE IS GOING TO BE 95, AND FOR 73 YEARS, BOTH OF THEM HAVE CELEBRATED EACH OTHER'S BIRTHDAYS, AND THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. BUT HER MAJESTY, LIKE THE DUKE, WOULD SIMPLY LOOK TO CHRIST AND LOOK TO GOD. THE FORMER ARCHBISHOP OF YORK. LET US JOIN JJ ONCE AGAIN. OF COURSE, THE DUKE HELD HONORARY TITLES FOR ALL THREE SERVICES, BUT HE STARTED IN THE ROYAL NAVY. I HAVE HEARD HIM DESCRIBED AS A SAILOR'S SAILOR THIS WEEK. THAT IS TRUE, ISN'T IT? IT IS ALMOST DOWN TO EVEN HIS SENSE OF HUMOUR. I THINK PEOPLE MIGHT HAVE THOUGHT HE DID NOT HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOUR, BUT HE CERTAINLY DID. BUT THAT IS THE SAME TO BE SAID OF ALL SAILORS WITHIN THE ROYAL NAVY. BUT HE DEFINITELY HAD HIS STANDARDS, THOUGH, AND WOULD NOT RELENT ON THOSE AT ALL. SPEAKING OF STANDARDS, WHAT IS YOUR JOB TODAY? I AM WITHIN THE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIPS QUADRANGLE GUARD, WHICH IS A MASSIVE HONOUR AND PRIVILEGE TO TAKE CHARGE OF THAT. THE SAILORS AND COMMANDOS ARE ALL READY TO DO THEIR DUTY TODAY. YOU MET THE DUKE A FEW TIMES. I HAVE BEEN VERY PRIVILEGED OVER THE YEARS AS A PETTY OFFICER ALL THE WAY THROUGH TO A CHIEF. I HAVE BEEN FORTUNATE TO MEET HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS AND HAVE QUITE A LOT OF INTERACTION WITH HIM, WHICH WAS REALLY FANTASTIC. YOU HAVE HAD A 29-YEAR CAREER. HOW DOES THE STAY STACK UP? I DON'T THINK ANYTHING WILL BE AS IMPORTANT AS THIS AT THIS STAGE. IT IS AN INCREDIBLE PRIVILEGE TO BE PART OF THIS EVENT. IT IS HUGE ` LOTS OF PRESSURE. BUT AS I KEEP SAYING, IT IS JUST A MASSIVE PRIVILEGE TO BE HERE TO REPRESENT THE ROYAL NAVY TODAY. THEY LOOK VERY POISED AND READY. I WILL LET YOU GO AND FALL IN. LET US JOIN SOPHIE. MILLION AND MILLIONS OF PEOPLE HAVE DONE IT IN OVER 140 COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD. THE 'DUKE OF EDINBURGH' AWARD IS THE DUKE'S GREATEST LEGACY. THAT IS HOW THE EXPLORER SIR DAVID HEMPLEMAN-ADAMS DESCRIBES IT. YOU DID THE AWARD WHEN YOU WERE 13 YEARS OLD, AND LOOK WHERE YOU ARE NOW. I HAVE OFTEN SAID THAT NOTWITHSTANDING THE NORTH AND SOUTH POLES, MOUNT EVEREST, THE BRONZE AWARD WAS THE HARDEST THING I'D EVER DONE, BECAUSE IT WAS THE FIRST TIME I HAD LEFT HOME. IT WAS A REALLY SERIOUS EXPERIENCE. BUT BECAUSE OF THAT, YOU GOT TO KNOW THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH VERY WELL LATER IN LIFE. YOU DESCRIBE HIM AS A SURROGATE FATHER. HE WAS A PATRON TO A LOT OF MY EXPEDITIONS. HE WOULD GET ME UP AND ASK REALLY VERY, VERY INTELLIGENT, KNOWLEDGEABLE QUESTIONS. HE DID NOT REALLY WANT TO KNOW ABOUT PULLING SLEDGES OR CLIMBING. HE WOULD WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE CLIMATE AND GLACIERS. HE ASKED ME TO BE THE CHAIRMAN OF HIS 50TH, WHICH WAS A GREAT PRIVILEGE. AND THEN HE ASKED ME IF I WOULD BE A TRUSTEE OF THE AWARD SCHEME. AND I SAID, 'THANK YOU VERY MUCH. IT IS 'A GREAT HONOUR AND PRIVILEGE.' HE SAID, 'NO, IT'S NOT. IT IS A DUTY, 'AND REMEMBER THE DIFFERENCE.' AS PART OF THAT OVER THE YEARS, YOU HAVE WONDERFUL STORIES TO TELL ABOUT HIM. YOU WERE PICKED UP MANY TIMES BY HIM AND HIS BLACK CAB. ONE MORNING, I WAS WORKING WITH HIM AND SAID THAT I HAD TO LEAVE, BECAUSE I WAS GOING TO PRESENT SOME GOLD AWARDS, AND HE GAVE ME A LIFT. I WAS EXPECTING A BIG DAIMLAR, BUT IT WAS A TAXI. IT WAS A GAS-CONVERTED TAXI, AND WE GO OUT, AND ALL THE POLICEMEN STAND TO ATTENTION, BUT AS SOON AS WE GOT OUT OF THE GATES OF THE PALACE, EVERY SINGLE TAXI DRIVER FLASHED THEIR LIGHTS. THEY ALL KNEW HE WAS OUT THERE. THE TAXI DRIVERS LOVED HIM. YOU WROTE TO EACH OTHER EVEN FAIRLY RECENTLY. IT WAS NOT FOR COVID, YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN THERE AT THE FUNERAL. IT IS A VERY SAD DAY FOR MILLIONS OF PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD. BUT I THINK HE WOULD HAVE ENJOYED IT IN A WAY ` BEAUTIFUL BLUE SKY. EVERY ONE WILL STAND THERE FOR TWO MINUTES OF SILENCE AT 3 O'CLOCK. I THINK IT IS REALLY GOOD THAT IT IS ONLY THE ROYAL FAMILY THERE RATHER THAN 800 PEOPLE. IT IS A VERY SAD DAY, AND WE WILL MISS HIM ENORMOUSLY. YES, INDEED, AND SIR DAVID THERE RIGHTLY POINTING TO THE LOVELY CIRCUMSTANCES IN TERMS OF WEATHER TODAY, AND SUCH BEAUTIFUL COUNTRYSIDE AROUND WINDSOR ITSELF. IT IS SUCH A LOVELY SETTING FOR AN EVENT OF THIS KIND ` A FUNERAL, WHERE PEOPLE WANT TO REFLECT ON THE GOOD THINGS THAT WERE ACHIEVED EVEN IN SAD TIMES, SO IT IS A NICE THING FOR US TO BE TALKING IN THOSE TERMS. WITH ME IS THE CURRENT CHAIR OF TRUSTEES OF THE 'DUKE OF EDINBURGH' AWARD. FIRST OF ALL, YOU ARE THE CHAIR OF TRUSTEES. YOU KNOW ALL ABOUT THE SCHEME, AND WE ALL KNOW PEOPLE FIRST OF ALL, YOU ARE THE CHAIR OF TRUSTEES. YOU KNOW ALL ABOUT THE SCHEME, AND WE ALL KNOW PEOPLE WHO HAVE BENEFITED FROM THE SCHEME. WHAT DOES THE SCHEME DO TO TAKE ON THE VALUES THAT THE DUKE WAS SO KEEN TO UNDERLINE OVER DECADES? HE WAS VERY KEEN TO BUILD RESILIENCE IN YOUNG PEOPLE. HE SAID MANY YEARS AGO THAT IF YOU CAN GET A YOUNG PERSON TO EXCEL IN ONE PART OF THEIR LIFE, IT WILL SHOW IN OTHER PARTS. IT'S ABOUT VOLUNTEERING AND COMMUNITY. 6.7 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE BENEFITED WORLWIDE. IT IS INCREDIBLE. BENEFITED WORLDWIDE. IT IS INCREDIBLE. IT HAS BEEN WONDERFUL TO SEE IN THIS PAST WEEK JUST HOW MANY PEOPLE THAT WE DIDN'T KNOW HAVE BENEFITED FROM BEING PART OF THE AWARD. I AM JUST INTERESTED IN THE REACH. DOES THE REACH TELL US SOMETHING ABOUT THE KINDS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE INTERESTED IN THIS KIND OF SCHEME? OR DOES THIS REACH TELL US THAT DIFFERENT ELEMENTS OF SOCIETY DIFFERENT KINDS OF SCHOOLS ARE PREPARED TO EMBRACE? IT GOES ACROSS EVERY PART OF LIFE IN THE UK. WHAT HAS BEEN INCREDIBLE DURING COVID IS PEOPLE STILL SEE THE VALUE IN IT. THE AWARD IS SOMETHING THAT YOUNG PEOPLE CAN REALLY RELATE TO, WHETHER THEY GO TO COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OR WORK. WE ARE JUST SEEING THE DISMOUNTED DETACHMENT OF THE HOUSEHOLD CAVALRY MARCHING DOWN CHAPEL HILL TOWARDS ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL. IT IS THEIR DUTY TODAY TO LINE THE STEPS APPROACHING THE GREAT WEST DOOR OF ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL. THEY WILL BE THERE READY FOR WHEN THE COFFIN ARRIVES. AND THAT WOULD BE JUST A FEW MINUTES BEFORE 3 O'CLOCK. WE SEE THE HORSESHOE CLOISTER, THERE IS WHERE WE WILL SEE THE TROOPS. THE BLUES AND ROYALS ON THE RIGHT AND THE LIFE GUARDS ON THE LEFT READY ON THE STEPS OF THE CHAPEL ITSELF. WHILE WE LOOK AT THOSE IMAGES, IT JUST REMINDS US, REALLY, OF THE DUKE'S ATTENTION TO DETAIL, HIS SMARTNESS COME RAIN OR SHINE. THOSE, ACTUALLY, WERE THE VALUES THAT HE TRIED TO INSTILL IN YOUNG PEOPLE THE IMPORTANCE OF TAKING THINGS SERIOUSLY. THIS IS A HISTORIC DAY. HE WAS AN EXTRAORDINARY FIGURE WHO WAS SO VARIED IN HIS INTERESTS AND IN HIS PERSONALITY. ONE DAY HE WOULD BE THERE WITH YOU JOSHING, THE NEXT DAY HE WOULD BE IMPECCABLY TURNED OUT, AND HE WOULD MAKE SURE EVERYBODY WAS IMPECCABLE. ONE THING ABOUT THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH WAS THAT HE LIVED IN THE MOMENT, IN THE PRESENT, AND IF YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING, YOU SHOULD DO THAT TO THE BEST OF YOUR ABILITY. ABSOLUTELY. YOU GET A SENSE OF THIS AS THEY PASS THE CHAPEL. THE ARCHWAY LEADS US INTO THE HORSESHOE CLOISTER WHERE THE COFFIN WILL ARRIVE A LITTLE LATER ON AND THERE WILL BE THE HOUSEHOLD CAVALRY THERE. THEY WILL PIPE THE STILL, WHICH IS A LOVELY TOUCH I THINK. THIS CASTLE MEANT EVERYTHING TO HIM. HIS MOTHER HAD BEEN BORN HERE IN 1885. THAT IS WHERE IT BEGAN AND THIS IS WHERE IT ENDS. THE VARIETY AND ENERGY OF HIS LIFE WAS EXTRAORDINARY. I SAW HIM AT THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH GOLD AWARD EVENT AND HE MET EVERY SINGLE YOUNG PERSON WHO BECAME A GOLD WINNER. HE WAS IN HIS MID TO LATE 90S. HE RAN TOWARDS THE DESK AND JUMPED UP ON IT. HE WAS FORMIDABLE. HE COULD BE HUGE FUN. I KNEW HIM FROM FIELDS IN TRUST. IT IS PART OF HIS LEGACY. THOUSANDS OF ACRES OF RECREATIONAL SPACE, PLAYING FIELDS AND SPORTS FIELDS AND PLAYGROUNDS FOR DISABLED PEOPLE AND CHILDREN WILL EXIST FOREVER BECAUSE THEY WERE PUT INTO TRUST THANKS TO THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH. HE DID CONCRETE THINGS. FARSIGHTED AND REALLY THINKING ABOUT THE WELFARE OF YOUNG PEOPLE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE WILL SEE MORE OF THE ARMED FORCES BUILD UP AS IT HAPPENS BECAUSE IT WILL LOOK SPLENDID. FOR 73 YEARS THE PERIOD FOLLOWING THE SECOND WORLD WAR, PRINCE PHILIP STOOD AT THE QUEEN'S SIDE, HIS STRENGTH AND STAY AS HER MAJESTY HAS SAID. IT WAS NOT AN EASY TASK BEING ROYAL CONSORT. THEIR LONG YEARS OF MARRIAGE WERE BUILT ON A FOUNDATION OF MUTUAL LOVE AND RESPECT. BY ANY STANDARDS, YOU WOULD HAVE TO SAY THAT IT WAS A HUGELY SUCCESSFUL PARTNERSHIP. (EMOTIVE MUSIC) IT IS WITH THE GREATEST PLEASURE THAT THE KING AND QUEEN ANNOUNCE THE BETROTHAL OF THEIR DEARLY BELOVED DAUGHTER PRINCESS ELIZABETH TO PHILIP MOUNTBATTEN. I AM SO HAPPY I AM SO HAPPY THAT ON THIS VISIT MY FUTURE HUSBAND IS BY MY SIDE. (CHEERING, APPLAUSE) THE WEDDING DATE WAS SET FOR NOVEMBER, SO THERE WERE FOUR MONTHS TO ENJOY THE CELEBRATION AND PLAN A PARTY ON THE BIG DAY. I, PHILIP, TAKE THE ELIZABETH, TO BE MY WEDDED WIFE. IN A LETTER TO HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW WRITTEN ON HIS HONEYMOON, THE NEW HUSBAND WROTE 'LILIBET 'IS ALL THAT IS REAL TO ME.' 'IS ALL THAT IS REAL TO ME.' WE WERE FORTUNATE TO ENJOY FIVE HAPPY YEARS OF FAIRLY CONVENTIONAL MARRIED LIFE. THIS PERIOD CAME TO AN ABRUPT END WHEN THE QUEEN HAD THE DUTY OF SUCCEEDING HER FATHER AFTER HIS PREMATURE DEATH. SHE WAS 25 AND I WAS 30 AND WE HAD TWO SMALL CHILDREN. LIFE, AS YOU COULD IMAGINE, CHANGED DRAMATICALLY IN MANY WAYS, BUT IT HAD MUCH LESS EFFECT ON OUR MARRIED LIFE THAN I ANTICIPATED. THE NEW COMBINED EXISTENCE, HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN AND THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH BY HER SIDE. HER COMPANION FOR 65 YEARS UNTIL HIS RETIREMENT IN 2017 AT THE AGE OF 96. TOGETHER IN MARRIAGE FOR OVER 70 YEARS, PERHAPS THE DUKE SHOULD HAVE THE FINAL SAY ON WHAT MADE THEM SPECIAL. TOLERANCE IS THE ONE ESSENTIAL INGREDIENT OF ANY HAPPY MARRIAGE. IT MAY NOT BE QUITE SO IMPORTANT WHEN THINGS ARE GOING WELL, BUT IT IS ABSOLUTELY VITAL WHEN THINGS GET DIFFICULT. YOU CAN TAKE IT FROM ME THAT THE QUEEN HAS THE QUALITY OF TOLERANCE IN ABUNDANCE. (LAUGHTER) HE IS SOMEONE WHO DOES NOT TAKE EASILY TO COMPLIMENTS BUT HE HAS BEEN MY STRENGTH AND STAY FOR ALL THESE YEARS AND MY FAMILY AND COUNTRY AND MANY OTHER COUNTRIES OWE HIM A GREATER DEBT THAN WE SHOULD EVER KNOW. I THINK YOU GET A SENSE THERE OF THE HUGELY SUCCESSFUL PARTNERSHIP AND THE MAGIC REALLY THAT MADE THAT WORK. HERE ARE TWO PEOPLE WHO CAN OFFER THEIR OWN PERSPECTIVE ON THE DUKE AND THE QUEEN. ALAN TITCHMARSH, THE BROADCASTER AND GARDENER. AND FROM A VERY DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE BUT A VERY DEEP KNOWLEDGE OF HOW THE INSTITUTION AND INDIVIDUALS WORK, SALLY OSMOND WHO WAS THE FORMER DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE. SALLY, I WILL ASK YOU THE WAY THE FAMILY WILL BE DEALING WITH TODAY. LOTS OF OUR VIEWERS WANT TO KNOW HOW THEY WILL COPE WITH AN EVENT LIKE THIS. THEY ARE GRIEVING AND MOURNING A BIG LOSS AND THEY ARE HAVING TO DO IT PUBLICLY. HOW WILL THEY BE COPING? THEY WILL BE DOING IT IN THE WAY THEY COPE WITH SO MANY EVENTS IN MANY RESPECTS. THIS IS UNIQUE AND VERY SPECIAL. THEY WILL BE SUPPORTING EACH OTHER. MANY OF THEM SPOKE ABOUT SUPPORTING THE QUEEN IN THE COMING DAYS AND WEEKS AND YEARS. THAT IS WHAT THEY WILL BE DOING NOW. UNITED IN GRIEF AND MOURNING. THEY WILL BE AWARE OF THE PUBLIC INTEREST AND THEY ARE ALWAYS VERY MINDFUL OF PUBLIC INTEREST, BUT THIS IS ESSENTIALLY A FAMILY FUNERAL. I THINK WE SHOULD RESPECT THAT. WE SHOULD LET THE FAMILY HAVE THEIR MOMENT. THERE WAS A VERY MOVING COMMENT ON ONE OF THE BBC WEBSITES THIS MORNING SAYING 'I HOPE HER MAJESTY IS GETTING THE SUPPORT SHE NEEDS'. IT WAS A VERY MOVING COMMENT BECAUSE THIS IS SOMEONE WHO WAS CONCERNED FOR THE QUEEN. THEY WERE ALSO WONDERING ABOUT HOW THE INSTITUTION FUNCTIONS WHEN THE QUEEN HAS LOST HER CONSORT OF MORE THAN 70 YEARS. WILL THAT SUPPORT TAKE THE FORM THEY WOULD LIKE? I'M SURE. WHETHER IT IS FROM THE FAMILY OR CLOSE FRIENDS, OR THOSE PROFESSIONALS AS WELL WHO HAVE BEEN WITH THE QUEEN FOR MANY YEARS AND MANY WITH THE DUKE FOR MANY YEARS AS WELL. THEY WILL BE THERE ENSURING THE QUEEN IS SUPPORTED IN THE WAY THAT SHE NEEDS TO BE. THE SIGHT THERE IN THE WINDSOR GREAT PARK. THE HIGHLANDERS. THEY LOOK REALLY SMART. THE ROYAL AIR FORCE RAF REGIMENT MAKING THEIR WAY UP TOWARDS THE CASTLE ITSELF. MORE OF THE FOOT GUARDS AND THE GRENADIER GUARDS AND DRUM MAJOR SCOTT FITZGERALD IN THAT FAMOUS A SMART GOLD TUNIC AND DRUM MAJOR SCOTT FITZGERALD IN THAT FAMOUS SMART GOLD TUNIC LEADING THEM ALL THE WAY TOWARDS THE QUADRANGLE AND THEN THE CHAPEL HILL ITSELF. WE CAUGHT A QUICK GLIMPSE THERE WE CAUGHT A QUICK GLIMPSE THERE OF THE MARKERS WHO WILL BE MARKING THE WAY FOR THE ARMED FORCES WHO WILL FOLLOW THEM. SALLY WAS TELLING US THERE ABOUT SUPPORT FOR THE QUEEN. ALAN, I WILL ASK YOU AS I ASKED SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH EARLIER, BECAUSE OF SHARED INTERESTS, I WONDER WHAT YOUR INTERACTION WITH THE DUKE WAS, GARDENING, HE EXPERIMENTED A LOT WITH THAT ESPECIALLY AT WINDSOR. WHAT ARE YOUR RECOLLECTIONS? THERE WERE TWO KINDS OF EYE FROM THE DUKE ` THE TWINKLY EYE AND THE BEADY EYE. WHAT CAME TO THE FORE FROM HIM WAS VERY MUCH A SENSE OF BEING CUSTODIAN OF THESE 5000 ACRES AT WINDSOR GREAT PARK AND LOOKING AFTER THAT AND MAKING SURE THAT HE WAS FULFILLING HIS ROLE IN THE WAY THAT GEORGE V AND GEORGE VI HAVE DONE BEFORE HIM. HE REALLY RELISHED THAT. THERE WAS A LINE THAT AMUSED ME FROM THE QUEEN MOTHER THAT SAID YES HE HAS TAKEN OVER AND SHE CLEARLY THOUGHT HE WAS DOING THE JOB A LITTLE TOO SERIOUSLY. THAT IS A REFLECTION OF HOW COMMITTED HE WAS. DID HE EVER DO ANY JOB HALF-HEARTEDLY? HE MADE SURE HE WAS DOING IT RIGHT. HE SAW IT AS FULFILLING AN IMPORTANT JOB. A CUSTODIAN AND STEWARD. I WROTE A BOOK ON ROYAL GARDENERS AND I SENT IT TO THE QUEEN BECAUSE YOU FEEL LIKE YOU OUGHT TO. I HAD A LETTER BACK FROM THE DUKE A FORTNIGHT LATER. APPARENTLY HE TYPED HIS OWN LETTERS. HE SAID HE MISSES THE SERIES ON TELEVISION BUT HE ENJOYED THE BOOK. ON THE CHAPTER DEVOTED TO ELIZABETH II, THERE WAS MENTION THAT SHE DOES RIDING AND HE DOES SHOOTING, BUT HE SAID HE DOESN'T DO SHOOTING ALL YEAR. BUT HE SAID HE DOESN'T DO SHOOTING ALL YEAR. ' I ONLY TOOK UP CARRIAGE DRIVING IN 1973.' HE LISTS EVERYTHING HE HAS DONE IN THE HOME PARK HERE. HE THOUGHT IT MIGHT INTEREST YOU TO KNOW THAT ACTIVE GARDENING STILL GOES ON IN THE ROYAL GARDEN. YOU WERE PUT IN YOUR PLACE. I CHERISH THE DOCUMENT. DOES IT SURPRISE YOU? NOT AT ALL. WE KNOW THE MANY INTERESTS THAT THE DUKE HAD. BUILDING ON THE STEWARDSHIP AND CUSTODIAN OF THE PARK. HE WAS ALSO A CUSTODIAN OF SANDRINGHAM AND BALMORAL, AND HE PLANTED SO MANY TREES HERE AND AT SANDRINGHAM. IT WAS VERY IMPORTANT IN TERMS OF THE BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION OF THE LANDSCAPE. THERE ARE SOME TREES THAT ARE OVER A THOUSAND YEARS OLD BUT THERE ARE SOME THAT ARE ONLY 10 YEARS OLD. I WOULD LOVE TO CHAT TO YOU FOR ANOTHER TWO HOURS BUT WE HAVE A LOT OF MILITARY MOVEMENTS HAPPENING AND WE HAVE A STRICT TIMETABLE. THANK YOU BOTH. LOVELY TO SEE YOU BOTH. WE SAW THERE THE STREET LINERS AND MARKERS WE SAW THERE THE STREET LINERS AND MARKERS MAKING THEIR WAY UP TO THE CASTLE. AND WE WILL TALK MORE ABOUT THEM IN A MOMENT. THE LINERS WILL BE LINING THE QUADRANGLE SOON. THE FIRST GATHERING WILL BE SEEN IN A SHORT WHILE. LET'S JOIN SOPHIE. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH SUPPORTED HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF CHARITIES. THE ROYAL COMMONWEALTH EX-SERVICES LEAGUE WAS ONE HE WAS PARTICULARLY FOND OF. DOCTOR ERICA MYERS DAVIS JOINS ME NOW. FOND OF. DOCTOR ERICA MYERS DAVIS JOINS ME NOW. JUST TELL US YOUR CHARITY MOTTO. ANYONE WHO HAS EVER SERVED THE CROWN IN THEIR TIME OF NEED, WE ARE THERE FOR THEM. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH WAS YOUR GRAND PRESIDENT FOR 41 YEARS. HE TOOK IT VERY SERIOUSLY. ABSOLUTELY. HE CHAIRED OUR MEETINGS AND HE WOULD BE THERE WITH THE AGENDA AND HE WOULD GO THROUGH THINGS THAT WERE DISCUSSED. HE WOULD KEEP YOU ON YOUR TOES. YOU WOULD MAKE SURE THAT REPORTS WERE DONE. HE WAS VERY DILIGENT. HE PAID CAREFUL ATTENTION. HE WAS INCREDIBLY PASSIONATE ABOUT SUPPORTING OUR WIDOWS AND VETERANS. HE WAS ALSO VERY PUNCTUAL. YOU NEEDED TO BE ON TIME. YOU SPENT A LOT OF TIME WITH HIM. OVER A DECADE. YOU BECAME VERY FOND OF HIM, DIDN'T YOU? YES. HE WAS A REALLY LOVELY MAN TO WORK WITH. INCREDIBLY PASSIONATE. REALLY CARED. AT OUR MEETINGS WE WOULD OFTEN HAVE FOOD AND DRINKS SERVED BEFOREHAND TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WERE ALL ON TIME. HE WOULD JUST WANDER AROUND THE ROOM AND TALK TO EVERYBODY. HE DID NOT NEED TO BE ESCORTED. HE KNEW EVERYONE. SOME OF OUR COUNCILMEMBERS WERE VETERANS THEMSELVES. IT WAS LIKE A BUNCH OF OLD BOYS GETTING TOGETHER FOR A BEER. IF IT HAD NOT BEEN FOR COVID, YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN PART OF THE PROCESSION AND BEEN HERE WITH MANY OTHER MEMBERS. WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS TODAY? IT IS BITTERSWEET. WE WOULD HAVE BEEN PART OF THE PROCESSION TODAY. ON BEHALF OF OUR CURRENT GRAND PRESIDENT, LORD RICHARDS, I KNOW THAT ON BEHALF OF HIM AND ALL COUNCILMEMBERS, WE ARE SO SAD TODAY THAT HE HAS PASSED AND THAT WE COULD NOT BE PART OF TODAY'S PROCESSION AS HE WOULD HAVE LIKED. OUR DEEPEST CONDOLENCES TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN AND THE FAMILY. THE FACT THAT WE CAN HAVE THIS CONVERSATION SO CLOSE IS VERY MEANINGFUL. I KNOW THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE FROM THE COMMONWEALTH WHO ARE WITH US TODAY IN SPIRIT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. SOPHIE, MANY THANKS. THIS JUST GIVES YOU A SENSE OF THE GRANDEUR ` THE COLOUR, THE GLINTING UNIFORMS AND, OF COURSE, ALL OF IT PART OF A SCENE THAT WE HAVE SEEN IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS ` THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY PARADE, THE STATE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT. A VERY, VERY DIFFERENT EVENT TODAY WITH THE ARMED FORCES WANTING TO PAY TRIBUTE TO SOMEONE WHO THEY RESPECTED AND LOVED AND SOMEONE WITH WHOM THEY SHARED SUCH A CLOSE ASSOCIATION WITH FOR MANY DECADES. WELL, ALL THREE SERVICES WILL BE ON PARADE TODAY. I AM JOINED BY A FLIGHT LIEUTENANT FROM THE RAF. YOU WERE IN THE ARMY BEFORE THAT, REPRESENTED THE COMMONWEALTH. WHAT DID THE DUKE MEAN TO OUR SAILORS AND OUR ARMY? HE WAS AN INSPIRATION. FOR EVERY AIRMAN OR ARMED FORCES PERSONNEL. HE WAS ONE OF OUR BIGGEST SUPPORTERS. FOR MYSELF, HE WAS OUR HONORARY COMMODORE AND TOOK PARTICULAR INTEREST IN THE STATION, PARTAKING IN SEVERAL SPECIAL CEREMONIES OVER THE YEARS. THINGS ARE SLIGHTLY SCALED-DOWN TODAY, BUT EVERYONE ON PARADE TODAY HAS SOME SORT OF SPECIAL CONNECTION TO THE DUKE. WHO ARE YOU REPRESENTING? I AM REPRESENTING THE RAF SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP CONTINGENT. WE ARE VERY PLEASED TO BE REPRESENTING THE RAF. VERY QUICKLY, WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE PART OF THIS PIECE OF HISTORY? PERSONALLY, IT IS A GREAT PRIVILEGE TO REPRESENT THE RAF AS WE ALL COME TOGETHER TO FAREWELL THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SPEAKING TO ME TODAY. BEST OF LUCK WITH PROCEEDINGS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THE GEORGE IV APRON, AS IT IS KNOWN ` THIS IS THE APPROACH FROM THE GEORGE IV GATE INTO WINDSOR CASTLE. JUST BEYOND, WE CAN SEE THE EAST LAWN. THAT IS WHERE THE KING'S TROOPS WILL BE FIRING THEIR GUN SALUTE DURING THE FUNERAL PROCESSION. ONE GUN WILL BE FIRED EVERY MINUTE. THERE WE HAVE THE ARMED FORCES ` DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE FORCES MAKING THEIR WAY INTO WINDSOR CASTLE. HERE WE ARE IN THE QUADRANGLE ITSELF. THE PIPES AND DRUMS ARE MAKING THEIR WAY IN. THE BIG DRUM BEING SWATHED IN BLACK. A LOT OF THE INSTRUMENTS AND INSIGNIA, INCLUDING THE QUEEN'S TRUNCHEON ` ALL OF THESE THINGS DRAPED IN BLACK TODAY. AND THE FORCES COMING IN NOW WOULD BE THOSE WHO ARE PREPARING TO LINE THE QUADRANGLE ` A VERY, VERY IMPORTANT TASK WHICH WILL BE TO PROVIDE A BACKDROP AND A FRAMEWORK FOR THE EVENTS TO TAKE PLACE. LATER WHEN THE ROYAL FAMILY WILL GATHER, THE QUEEN WILL ALSO JOIN THE PROCESSION BEFORE IT MAKES ITS WAY DOWN TO THE CHAPEL FOR THE FUNERAL SERVICE ITSELF. FOR THE QUADRANGLE AND THE CASTLE, LET US JOIN SOPHIE. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH HAD DEEP CONNECTIONS WITH WINDSOR CASTLE THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE. IT IS ALSO WHERE HIS MOTHER WAS BORN BACK IN 1885. I AM JOINED NOW BY AN AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST WHO HAS WRITTEN EXTENSIVELY ABOUT YOUNG PRINCE PHILIP. WRITTEN EXTENSIVELY ABOUT YOUNG PRINCE PHILIP. AND HIS CONNECTIONS REALLY DO GO BACK A LONG WAY. IT WASN'T JUST HIS MOTHER WAS BORN HERE. IT WAS HIS MOTHER'S MOTHER, BECAUSE HE IS DESCENDED FROM QUEEN VICTORIA. SO WHEN HE FIRST BEGAN TO GET TO KNOW PRINCESS ELIZABETH, THEY MET, FAMOUSLY, WHEN SHE WAS 13 AND HE WAS A CADET AT DARTMOUTH. BUT THE MOST SIGNIFICANT MEETINGS WERE DURING HIS LEAVES DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR, WHEN HE WOULD BE INVITED BY KING GEORGE VI TO COME AND STAY AT WINDSOR, BECAUSE KING GEORGE VI WAS HIS SECOND COUSIN. AT CHRISTMAS 1943, HE CAME, AND HE WATCHED THE PRINCESSES IN THE PANTOMIME 'ALADDIN'. HE WAS OBSERVED TO HAVE LAUGHED LOUDLY AT ALL THE JOKES, AND AFTERWARDS, HE WROTE TO THE QUEEN TO THANK HER FOR THIS TIME THAT HE HAD HAD. IT WAS REALLY A VERY MOVING LETTER, BECAUSE IT BASICALLY SAID THAT... HE THANKED HER FOR, AS HE PUT IT, THE OPPORTUNITY TO ENJOY THE SIMPLE FAMILY PLEASURES AND AMUSEMENTS AND THE FEELING THAT HE WAS ABLE TO SHARE THEM, AND IT WAS REALLY A SENSE IN THE LETTER THAT HE WAS BEGINNING TO FALL IN LOVE WITH PRINCESS ELIZABETH. HE SAW A WAY OF REGAINING THIS FAMILY THAT HE HAD LOST AS A BOY AT THE AGE OF 9, WHEN HIS OWN FAMILY DISINTEGRATED. THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE, THE QUEEN AND HE HAD SPENT A LOT OF TIME HERE AT WINDSOR CASTLE, AND THEY HAVE ENJOYED BEING HERE. HE LOVED IT HERE. IN 1952, IT BECAME THEIR WEEKEND HOME. SO THEY WOULD BE HERE WHENEVER THEY WEREN'T ELSEWHERE FOR THE WEEKEND. IT WAS WHERE HE STARTED THE... GUARDS POLO CLUB. THE WIMBLEDON OF POLO. LATER ON WHEN HE GAVE POLO, HE STARTED THE CARRIAGE DRIVING HERE. POLO UP, HE STARTED THE CARRIAGE DRIVING HERE. IT WAS THE SORT OF PLACE WHERE HE LIVED OUT HIS PASSIONS, REALLY. WHEN YOU TALK TO THE LOCAL PEOPLE AROUND HERE, HE WAS OFTEN A FAMILIAR SIGHT ON THE GROUNDS AND LOCAL VILLAGE. SOPHIE, THANK YOU SO MUCH AND TO YOUR GUEST AS WELL. IT IS REALLY TIME FOR US TO JUST DESCRIBE NOW WHAT IS HAPPENING ON THE APPROACH TO ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL. LED BY THE DRUM MAJORS IN THIS LOVELY SUNSHINE ON THIS DAY, THE DAY OF THE FUNERAL OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH. ALL OF THESE PARTICIPANTS TODAY ARE PREPARING TO LINE THE ROUTE AND TO PREPARE FOR THE PROCESSION ITSELF A LITTLE LATER ON. WITH ME, I AM DELIGHTED TO SAY, WE HAVE BRIGADIER GREVILLE BIBBY, HIMSELF A HOUSEHOLD DIVISION INDIVIDUAL AS FORMER COMMANDING OFFICER. WE ALSO HAVE THE ROYAL EDITOR OF 'THE SUNDAY TIMES'. THANK YOU BOTH FOR JOINING US. WHY DON'T WE START BY HELPING VIEWERS UNDERSTAND THIS PART OF THE CEREMONY TODAY. WHAT IS GOING ON? WE HAVE GOT THE FIRST TROOPS MOVING DOWN TOWARDS ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL, AND ACTUALLY, ON THE SCREEN AT THE MOMENT, WE HAVE WHAT WE CALL THE MASS CALLER OF DRUMS, WHICH ARE THE GUARDS WORKING TOGETHER. AS YOU KNOW, FROM TROOPING THE COLOUR, THESE GUYS ARE REAL SOLDIERS AND THEY ARE PART OF THEIR BATTALIONS, AND THEIR DUTY IS TO BE MUSICIANS WITHIN THE BATTALIONS. THEY ARE THE MACHINE-GUN PLATOON, TO BE PRECISE. PEOPLE SEE THIS WONDERFUL CEREMONY AND OFTEN THEY DO NOT MAKE THE LINK BETWEEN THE OPERATIONAL DUTY AND THE CEREMONIAL DUTY. EXACTLY. IT IS NICE TO REMIND PEOPLE THAT WE DO OUR BIT FOR THE COUNTRY ABOVE AND BEYOND THIS SORT OF STUFF. WHILE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE HOUSEHOLD DIVISION, LET US BE CLEAR THAT WE HAVE THE AIR FORCE AND THE NAVY, ALL OF THEM PLAYING PROMINENT ROLES TODAY. YES, AND I WAS THINKING ABOUT THIS EARLIER TODAY. IT IS UTTERLY REMARKABLE THAT YOU CAN HAVE SO MANY PEOPLE WITH A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP TO ONE PERSON. I LIKEN IT TO WHEN WE HAD OUR THIRD CHILD. I DID NOT KNOW IF I HAD ENOUGH LOVE IN MY HEART FOR A THIRD CHILD. BUT THIS IS WHAT PRINCE PHILIP DID. HE WAS ABLE TO ENCOURAGE AND GENERATE A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH ALL HIS REGIMENTS AND CHARITIES AND WITH THE NATION AS A WHOLE ` A REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT. WE CAUGHT A QUICK GLIMPSE THERE... THIS IS THE GUARD OF HONOUR. THIS IS THE RIFLES. THEY ARE ON THEIR WAY TO THE CHAPEL ITSELF. THEY WILL BE JUST OUTSIDE THE CHAPEL OF THE HORSESHOE CLOISTER. THEY ARE PROVIDING THE GUARD OF HONOUR FOR THE ARRIVAL OF THE HEARSE A LITTLE LATER ON FOR THE FUNERAL PROCESSION. AT THE CONCLUSION OF THAT PROCESSION, WE HAVE THE BAND AND BUGLES OF THE RIFLES, AND WE HAVE THE SERVING OFFICERS TOO. I AM JUST WONDERING ABOUT THE RIFLES. WE NEED TO EXPLAIN AGAIN TO THE PEOPLE WATCHING WHY THESE DIFFERENT BRANCHES OF THE ARMED FORCES HAVE BEEN SELECTED. SO, THE DUKE'S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE RIFLES IS WHAT? HE WAS COLONEL IN CHIEF OF THE REGIMENT WHEN IT WAS FORMED IN 2007, BECAUSE THE RIFLES ARE THE AMALGAMATION OF FOUR VERY OLD AND TRADITIONAL REGIMENTS, INCLUDING THE LIGHT INFANTRY. AND THEY WERE BROUGHT TOGETHER AS PART OF THE CHANGES TO THE DEFENCE FORCES IN 2007, AND HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS WAS MADE THEIR COLONEL. THE OTHER THING THAT IS WORTH POINTING OUT IS THAT THEY ARE MARCHING MUCH QUICKER THAN EVERYONE ELSE, AT A MUCH SMALLER PACE. THEY MARCH AT 150 PACES A MINUTE, AND THE REASON FOR THAT IS BECAUSE THEY USED TO BE THE ORIGINAL SKIRMISHERS. THEY USED TO LEAD US INTO BATTLE. THEY ARE NOT WEARING RED. THEY WORE SENSIBLE COLOURS SO THAT WE COULD NOT SEE THEM. I WOULD LIKE US JUST TO SEE AT THIS POINT THAT IMPORTANT CEREMONY THAT TOOK PLACE JUST A FEW YEARS AGO, BECAUSE WE HAD THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH HANDING OVER HIS POSITION WITH THE RIFLES TO THE DUCHESS OF CORNWALL ` ONE OF THE LAST PUBLIC ENGAGEMENTS THAT HE ENGAGED IN. THAT WAS VERY MEMORABLE DAY ` VERY EMOTIONAL FOR THE NATION AS WELL, BECAUSE I THINK THAT IT WAS ONE OF THE LAST TIMES WE SAW HIM IN THE PUBLIC EYE. THE DUCHESS OF CORNWALL WAS VERY PROUD AND HAPPY TO TAKE OVER THAT ROLE. THE ROYAL MARINES BAND AGAIN. SO SMART. DIFFERENT SHIPS AND SHORE ESTABLISHMENTS REPRESENTED WITHIN THAT CONTINGENT TOO. LET US WATCH THESE IMAGES. I AM GOING TO BRING ROY EDWARDS IN WITH US TOO. AS WE LOOK AT THIS, LET US REMEMBER THAT THERE IS A FAMILY WATCHING ALL OF THIS, NO DOUBT, SOME OF THEM FROM THE WINDOWS OF WINDSOR CASTLE, PREPARING TO TAKE PART IN THIS PROCESSION TODAY. THEY WILL, LIKE ALL OF US, BE IMPRESSED WITH THE CEREMONY. I THINK IT IS FITTING AND EXACTLY AS THE DUKE HAD WISHED. HOW WILL THEY BE HANDLING THEMSELVES TODAY? WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE FAMILY TAKING PART? FOR THE FAMILY, WE WOULD HAVE HAD A VERY DIFFERENT FUNERAL HAD WE NOT BEEN IN THE MIDDLE OF A PANDEMIC. THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A HUGE MILITARY PROCESSION BOTH IN LONDON AND IN WINDSOR HERE, SO FOR THE FAMILY, IT WILL BE REALLY IMPORTANT THAT THE DUKE'S STRONG MILITARY LINKS TO ALL PARTS OF THE ARMED FORCES IS BEING HONOURED TODAY ON QUITE A LARGE SCALE. OF COURSE, THERE ARE HUGE FAMILY LINKS WHEN IT COMES TO THE MILITARY, AND WE'VE JUST TALKED ABOUT THAT MOVING SERVICE WHERE THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH HANDED ON THE RIFLES TO THE DUCHESS OF CORNWALL. THE ROYAL MARINES ARE A VERY GOOD PROMPT FOR US ` DRUMS ARE SWATHED IN BLACK. IF YOU SEE JUST THE MACE THAT IS BEING CARRIED THERE TO LEAD THE BAND, EVEN THE MACE IS, REALLY, DRESSED IN BLACK CLOTH. THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE ARE GOING TO SEE WITH LOTS OF THE ELEMENTS OF THE ARMED FORCES TODAY ` DIFFERENT, IMPORTANT PARTS OF THE INSIGNIA DRAPED IN BLACK TO MARK THE OCCASION. IT IS A SIGN OF RESPECT AND MOURNING. IT IS VERY, VERY SOMBRE ` COVERING UP ALL THAT RED AND GOLD AND GLITZ. I AM ADVISED THAT IT` THE TIMEKEEPER IS ON WHAT WE CALL THE BASS DRUM. IT TONES DOWN THE DRUM AS WELL. SO THE MUSIC IS THERE, BUT IT IS NOT QUITE AS LOUD AS WE'RE USED TO. IT IS MORE RESTRAINED. IT IS MUFFLED. LET US TAKE IN THE SCENE WITHIN THE PRECINCTS OF THE CASTLE ITSELF. THAT IS A LOVELY SIGHT. THEY DO HAVE THE SCENE. THIS IS THE ROUTE OF THE FUNERAL PROCESSION AS IT LEADS TO THE QUADRANGLE AT THE NORTHERN END OF THE PICTURE HERE. PAST THE ROUND TOWER, DOWN CHAPEL HILL, TURNING AROUND TO OUR LEFT AND IN THROUGH THAT ARCHWAY INTO THE HORSESHOE CLOISTER ON A VERY, VERY BRIGHT SUNNY DAY AND BLUE SKIES. A VERY WARM WELCOME AT 2 O'CLOCK TO VIEWERS JOINING US AROUND THE UNITED KINGDOM AND VIEWERS AROUND THE WORLD. WHERE EVER YOU ARE, WELCOME TO OUR SPECIAL COVERAGE HERE AT WINDSOR OF THE CEREMONIAL ROYAL FUNERAL FOR HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE PHILIP THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH. IT WILL START IN ONE HOUR'S TIME BUT BEFORE THAT WE WILL HAVE FULL COVERAGE OF THE EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE FUNERAL ITSELF AND WE'LL BE TALKING TO MORE OF OUR SPECIAL GUESTS. THE SERVICE WILL BE TAKING PLACE IN ST GEORGE'S CHAPEL, ONE OF THE ARCHITECTURAL TREASURES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. VERY SOON THE STEP LINERS WILL BE IN PLACE. WE WILL ALSO HAVE THE ROYAL NAVY PIPING PARTY. A VERY NICE TOUCH. SOMETHING THE DUKE WANTED. THEY WILL PIPE THE STILL AS THE DUKE IS BROUGHT TO THE CHAPEL FOR THE SERVICE AND FOR THE INTERMENT ITSELF. WE WILL HAVE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE COMMONWEALTH THERE. THEY WILL BE IN THE HORSESHOE CLOISTER IS A SYMBOL OF THE IMPORTANCE OF THE COMMONWEALTH AND THE PIPING PARTY AND THE ROYAL NAVY LOOKING IMPECCABLY SMART. WHAT WILL BE ESPECIALLY POIGNANT FOR THOSE WITH NAVY CONNECTIONS, IT WILL BE A TOUCHING TRIBUTE AND A NICE TOUCH THAT THE DUKE ADDED. THROUGH THAT ARCHWAY THE PIPING PARTY WILL BE READY TO ACCOMPANY THE COFFIN AS IT IS TAKEN BY THE ROYAL MARINES UP THE STEPS TO THE GREAT WEST DOOR. BACK IN THE QUADRANGLE, WE HAVE THE BAND AND BUGLES OF THE RIFLES ALSO MAKING THEIR WAY THROUGH THIS AREA DOWN TO THE HORSESHOE CLOISTER BECAUSE THAT IS THEIR DUTY TODAY. TO PROVIDE THE GUARD OF HONOUR, THAT MEANS WHAT? IT IS A HUGE HONOUR. IT IS THE GUARD OF HONOUR. IT DOES WHAT IT SAYS ON THE TIN. IT IS PROVIDING THAT BODY OF MEN AND WOMEN WHO ARE PROVIDING AN HONOUR GUARD. IF YOU DON'T MIND, HUW, IT REMINDS ME OF A FUNNY STORY OF PRINCE PHILIP WHEN I WAS COMMANDING THE GUARD OF HONOUR FOR BORIS YELTSIN THE PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA AND I HAD TO LEARN MY LINES IN RUSSIAN, AND I DID MY BIT IN RUSSIAN (SPEAKS RUSSIAN) I THINK IT MEANS 'GOOD MORNING, PRESIDENT.' THE PRESIDENT STARTED TALKING TO ME IN RUSSIAN AT WHICH POINT PRINCE PHILIP SAID 'I DON'T THINK THE MAJOR SPEAKS RUSSIAN.' YOU TRIED. YOU TOLD US EARLIER ABOUT HOW THE FAMILY WOULD BE PREPARING FOR TODAY, THINKING NOT JUST ABOUT THE CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES, BUT THERE WILL CERTAINLY BE A FOCUS ON WILLIAM AND HARRY. HARRY HAS COME BACK FROM AMERICA FOR THE FUNERAL. THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF FOCUS ON THAT DURING THE WEEK. WHEN THEY DREW UP THE PLANS FOR TODAY, WHAT YOU THINK THEY WERE TRYING TO ACHIEVE WHEN THEY PUT THE PROCESSION TOGETHER? WHAT DO YOU THINK PEOPLE SHOULD READ INTO THE WAY THAT WILL PLAY OUT? THERE HAS BEEN AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF SPECULATION ABOUT SOME OF THE DRAMAS THAT WE HAVE SEEN IN THE ROYAL FAMILY. BUT THE KEY THING THE ROYAL FAMILY WANT TO FOCUS ON TODAY AND THIS IS ALL THE WAY DOWN FROM THE QUEEN, IS UNITY. THE FEELING IS THAT IS WHAT THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH WOULD HAVE WANTED AND THAT IS WHAT HER MAJESTY WANTS TODAY. LOOKING AT THE PROCESSION ACCOMPANYING THE DUKE TO HIS FINAL RESTING PLACE, HARRY AND WILLIAM WILL BE WALKING TOGETHER, NOT SHOULDER TO SHOULDER. THE COMBINED BANDS OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE. THE TRI-SERVICE BAND. WE HAVE BANDS FROM THE ROYAL AIR FORCE, NAVY AND ARMY PLAYING TOGETHER. IT IS NOT UNIQUE BUT IT IS RELATIVELY UNUSUAL. IT IS. AND IT COMES BACK TO THAT POINT, HUW, ABOUT HOW THE DUKE HAS TOUCHED EVERY PART OF THE SERVICE DURING HIS LIFE. SOMETHING ELSE THAT WILL PLEASE YOU PERSONALLY IS THAT WE HAVE THE WELSH GUARDS REPRESENTED IN THE QUADRANGLE WHO ARE MARKING THE ROUTE AS STREET LINERS. HE WAS COLONEL OF THE WELSH GUARDS BEFORE HE WAS HEAD OF THE GRENADIERS. WE DO HAVE A BIT OF A VANTAGE POINT AS WELL IN THE STUDIO. WE ARE AT THE TOP OF CHAPEL HILL. HERE COME THE RIFLES JUST PASSING US. WE HAVE A GREAT VIEW. THEY ARE PROVIDING THAT GUARD OF HONOUR WHEN THE PROCESSION STARTS A LITTLE LATER. JUST GIVING YOU A SENSE OF SOME OF THE GEOGRAPHY THERE. THERE YOU HAD THE MAGNIFICENT GREEN SPACE OF THE QUADRANGLE AND WINDSOR CASTLE WITH THE STATE ENTRANCE JUST TO THE LEFT HAND SIDE. THAT IS WHERE WE WILL SEE THE PROCESSION STARTING A LITTLE LATER ON. AND THE BAND OF THE ROYAL MARINES MAKING A VERY VERY GRAND AND IMPRESSIVE ENTRANCE. THEY ARE PART OF THIS TRI-SERVICE BAND OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE. THEY ARE JUST STARTING AND TAKING THEIR PLACE. THEY WILL BE PLAYING A SELECTION OF MUSIC, A GLORIOUS SELECTION OF MUSIC, WHICH AGAIN IS A LIST OF TUNES THAT THE DUKE WANTED HIMSELF. VERY MUCH AS OWN CHOICE. HE DID. THE MAJOR GENERAL WAS VERY INVOLVED IN WORKING WITH THE DUKE AND CHOOSING THE MUSIC. I WAS LOOKING AT THE QUADRANGLE THERE, IT IS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO MARCH ON GRASS. IT IS NOT SOMETHING YOU THINK ABOUT. BUT WHEN YOU ARE MARCHING ON THE ROAD, YOU CAN HEAR EACH OTHER'S FEET. BUT THE MINUTE YOU GET ON GRASS, ALL OF THAT GOES. SO IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO WATCH THEM COMING IN HERE. I KNOW THEY HAVE REHEARSED IT AND WILL BE ABSOLUTELY FINE. TALKING ABOUT CONNECTIONS WITH THE ARMY AND THE NAVY, THE ROYAL AIR FORCE TO, GIVEN THE DUKE'S CONNECTION WITH THE RAF, WHAT CAN YOU TELL VIEWERS ABOUT THE CONNECTION? HE WAS A VERY TALENTED PILOT HIMSELF. HE WAS QUALIFIED ON 59 DIFFERENT AIRCRAFT. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE HEARD THAT BEFORE. IT IS WORTH UNDERLINING. IT WAS VERY DIFFICULT TO KEEP THEM OUT OF THE COCKPIT. THAT IS A LOVELY SIGHT. I DON'T THINK PEOPLE THOUGHT THAT THE PROCESSION THAT IS TAKING PLACE TODAY WOULD TAKE PLACE IN THIS KIND OF WEATHER. THE FUNERAL BEING DOWNSCALED AND ON A SMALLER SCALE IS STILL IMMENSELY IMPRESSIVE. IT ABSOLUTELY IS. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH WAS METICULOUS DOWN TO THE LAST DETAIL. THAT INSIGNIA ON THE ALTAR WAS PERSONALLY CHOSEN WHY HIM AND IT WILL BE HAS RAF WINGS ON THE ALTAR. IT DOESN'T FEEL LIKE A SMALL OR SCALED-DOWN FUNERAL. GOING BACK TO HOW THE FAMILY PREPARE, I THINK THAT WILL MAKE THEM FEEL VERY GOOD. THE TRI-SERVICE BAND WILL BE DIRECTED BY THE SENIOR DIRECTOR OF MUSIC IN THE HOUSEHOLD DIVISION. WE SEE THE FOOT GUARDS AND WELSH GUARDS AS PART OF THOSE LINING THE QUADRANGLE AND AT THE OTHER END OF THE QUADRANGLE IN THE FAR DISTANCE IN THE SUNSHINE YOU HAVE THE HOUSEHOLD CAVALRY WHO ARE ALSO LINING THE QUADRANGLE. WE HAVE A VERY SPECIAL GROUP. THESE ARE BASICALLY SOME OF THE RICH BANNERS THAT ARE EMBLEMS OF THE UNITS AND THE GURKHAS THEMSELVES, THE QUEEN'S TRUNCHEONS, I BELIEVE THEY CALL THEM. A GIFT FROM QUEEN VICTORIA. ONE OF THE IMPORTANT SYMBOLS THE REGIMENTS HAVE. THESE ARE THE SOUL OF THE REGIMENT. EACH OF THESE FLAGS, WHAT WE CALL COLOURS, THE QUEEN'S COLOUR THERE WHICH IS THE UNION FLAG, WE SEE THESE COLOURS TROOPED EVERY YEAR TO COMMEMORATE HER MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY. EACH OF THESE HAVE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS. THE HIGHLANDERS LOOK MAGNIFICENT, DON'T THEY? THEY DO. ABSOLUTELY MAGNIFICENT. A BIT LIKE THE RIFLES, VERY NICE THEY WERE ABLE TO KEEP THEIR ANTECEDENT. PRINCE PHILIP EXTREMELY FOND OF HIS CONNECTIONS WITH SCOTLAND AND THE REGIMENT. COLONEL OF THE FOURTH BATTALION, ALSO KNOWN AS THE HIGHLANDERS. THIS PRESENTATION ON THE QUADRANGLE, THINK ABOUT THE PRECISION INVOLVED. GARRISON SERGEANT MAJOR ANDREW STOKES HAS BEEN VERY VERY HARD AT WORK. AS HAS BRIGADE MANAGER GUY STONE. VERY HARD AT WORK. TRYING TO GET ALL OF THESE ARRANGEMENTS READY IN JUST OVER A WEEK. IT IS A REVISED PLAN. IT HAS INVOLVED LAST-MINUTE CHANGES AND LOOK AT THE WORK THAT HAS GONE INTO IT. LOOK AT THAT STANDARD. THE BIGGEST VERSION OF THE ROYAL STANDARD. THE BEST POSSIBLE CONDITIONS FOR FLYING THE FLAG. INTERESTING WHAT YOU SAY ABOUT THE ARCHITECTS OF THIS PARADE. THEY HAD TO RETHINK THIS WHOLE PLAN DUE TO THE CORONAVIRUS. THERE IS THE GARRISON SERGEANT MAJOR JUST PUTTING THE FINAL TOUCHES THERE. THE ROYAL AIR FORCE BAND APPROACHING THE GATE. THE COMBINED BANDS OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE. A MATTER OF DEEP PRIDE FOR ALL OF THOSE TAKING PART. LOOKING RIGHT DOWN THE LONG WALK. 2 MILES OF IT THROUGH THAT GATEWAY. IT AS A VISTA TO BE VERY PROUD OF. SUCH A CLEAR VIEW. YOU MENTIONED THE WEATHER EARLIER. I REMEMBER WHEN THEY WERE PRESENTED WITH THEIR NEW COLOURS IN THIS VERY SPOT AND IT WAS A MISERABLE DAY. DRUM MAJOR SCOTT FITZGERALD, I REMEMBER THE DUKE ARE LOOKING AT HIM, LOOKING ACCIDENTALLY RESPLENDENT BUT IT WAS DRIZZLING AND HE WAS PRETTY WET AND THE DUKE ASKED HIM IF HE WOULD RUST, BUT HE ASSURED HIM HE WOULD NOT. THERE ARE THE GRENADIER GUARDS. LET'S TAKE IN THE SCENE. THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST POIGNANT MOMENTS. THAT IS THE CARRIAGE, THE DUKE'S CARRIAGE. HE WAS AN EXPERT CARRIAGE DRIVER. ABSOLUTELY. THESE ARE HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS' TWO FAVOURITE PONIES. BALMORAL AND STORM. BOTH PONIES BORN IN 2008. THEY WILL STAND IN THE QUADRANGLE AS THE LAND ROVER DRIVES AROUND. IT WAS A PASTIME THAT GAVE HIM ENORMOUS AMOUNTS OF JOY. IT WAS HIS PERSONAL WISH TO HAVE THE PONIES THERE. IT IS SUCH AN ENERGETIC SPORT TO ENGAGE WELL INTO HIS 90S. WE HEARD LOVELY THINGS FROM THE ROYAL FAMILY LAST WEEK, ON SUNDAY THE EARL AND COUNTESS OF WESSEX AND THEIR DAUGHTER LADY LOUISE IS NOW DRIVING PONIES. TALKED ABOUT HOW HE ENDED UP IN DITCHES AND EVEN VERY RECENTLY, IT IS ONE OF THE PASTIMES THAT GAVE HIM MOST JOY. HIS HAIR RAISING PASSION FOR LIFE. ON THE SEAT OF THE CARRIAGE, JUST TO UNDERLINE AGAIN HOW POIGNANT THIS IS, WE HAVE THE CAP AND THE WHIP. AND WE HAVE ALL OF THIS PLANNED SO THAT PEOPLE CAN TAKE IN THE INTERESTS, THE COMMITMENT AND THE DILIGENCE IN THE BEST POSSIBLE SENSE OF THE DUKE IN ALL AREAS OF LIFE. BUT THIS IS A LOVELY ELEMENT. THE CARRIAGE WHICH WILL JUST STAND THERE AND IS A REMINDER OF SOMETHING THAT HE TOOK ON, AS YOU SAY, AT THE AGE OF 50. THIS IS NOT A CASUAL RIDE IN THE CARRIAGE. IT IS A PHYSICAL, ENERGETIC KIND OF ACTIVITY. I DO NOT THINK ANYONE CAN NOT BE MOVED BY NOT SEEING THAT AN WHIP ON THAT SEAT. A LOT HAS BEEN MADE OF THE LAND ROVER HEARSE, DESIGNED BY HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS. THIS CARRIAGE, DRAWN BY THE TWO PONIES, WAS ALSO DESIGNED BY PRINCE PHILIP. I WAS TALKING ABOUT POIGNANT IMAGES. THIS IS A LAND ROVER THAT HAS BEEN CONVERTED, IN EFFECT, INTO A HEARSE. IT HAS BEEN DESIGNED OVER THE COURSE OF MANY YEARS, MODIFIED FROM THE YEAR 2003 INITIALLY BY THE DUKE HIMSELF. I THINK IT IS JUST WORTH TAKING THAT IN ` A SPECIALLY ADAPTED LAND ROVER THAT WILL BE A HEARSE IN THIS FUNERAL PROCESSION. IT WILL BE READY FOR THE PROCESSION SHORTLY. WE ARE BACK AT ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL. AS WE PREDICTED EARLIER, WE HAVE THE DISMOUNTED DETACHMENTS OF THE HOUSEHOLD CAVALRY. THE LIFE GUARDS THERE ON THE RIGHT, BLUES AND ROYALS ON THE LEFT. WE OFTEN SEE THEM AT GREAT STATE EVENTS ` THE STATE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT, FOR EXAMPLE, AND OTHER GREAT EVENTS. THE HOUSEHOLD CAVALRY HAS PLAYED SUCH A GREAT PART IN THE KING'S BIRTHDAY PARADE AS WELL. HERE THEY ARE TODAY VERY PROMINENTLY AND SMARTLY STANDING TO ATTENTION ON THE STEPS OF ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL OF WINDSOR. THE HORSESHOE CLOISTER ` YOU CAN SEE THE SHAPE THAT I WAS REFERRING TO ` LOOKING ONTO THE STEPS ON THE WESTERN END OF THE CHAPEL. THIS IS WHERE THE LAND ROVER HEARSE WILL ARRIVE. THIS IS WHERE THE ROYAL NAVY PIPING PARTY WILL GREET THE HEARSE. THIS IS WHERE THE COMMONWEALTH DEFENCE ADVISERS ARE IN PLACE, JUST TO REMIND EVERYONE OF THE CLOSE BOND WITH THE COMMONWEALTH. THIS IS WHERE THE GUARD OF HONOUR AND BAND AND BUGLES... LET US STAY ON THESE WONDERFUL IMAGES. WITH ME IS THE DISTINGUISHED ROYAL WRITER FOR 'THE DAILY MAIL' AND AUTHOR, AND I AM ALSO PLEASED TO SAY THAT KATIE NICOLE, ALSO A DISTINGUISHED COMMENTATOR AND JOURNALIST WHO IS AN EXPERT IN THESE MATTERS, IS ALSO WITH US. KATIE AND ROBERT, SO GOOD TO HAVE YOU WITH US. YOU JOIN US AT A VERY SOLEMN, POIGNANT MOMENT. WE ARE TAKING IN THE BEAUTY OF THE SCENE, BECAUSE IT IS A BEAUTIFUL SCENE, BETWEEN THE COLOUR AND THE PAGEANTRY OF THIS ELEMENT OF THE DAY, BUT WE ARE PREPARING OURSELVES FOR WHAT IS WITHOUT DOUBT THE MOST SOLEMN PART OF THE DAY, WHICH WILL BE THE FUNERAL PROCESSION. WE HAVE NOT SEEN THE QUEEN OR ANY MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY YET. CLEARLY, WHEN THAT HAPPENS, WHEN THE BAND OF THE GRENADIER GUARDS SOUNDS A GREAT DRUMBEAT FOR THE FUNERAL PROCESSION TO START, WE WILL BE REMAINING SILENT AT THAT POINT TO TAKE IN THE SCENE AS IT HAPPENS. SO KATIE AND ROBERT, AS WE LOOK AT WINDSOR CASTLE THERE AND AS WE LOOK AT THE QUADRANGLE, GIVE US YOUR THOUGHTS, ROBERT, ON WHAT YOU SHOULD NOW BE FOCUSING ON IN THE NEXT 15, 20 MINUTES OR SO. I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW THAT EVERY SINGLE ELEMENT OF WHAT YOU ARE SEEING THERE, EVERY ASPECT OF THIS HAS BEEN THOUGHT THROUGH BY THE DUKE HIMSELF. HE HAS GIVEN IMMENSE CARE TO ENSURE THAT EVERY ASPECT THE CARRIAGE THAT WE HAVE JUST HEARD ABOUT THAT ALSO REFLECTS ON A WHOLE LIFE DEVOTED TO HORSES. THIS WAS A FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL EQUESTRIAN FEDERATION. ALL THESE PEOPLE ARE FROM UNITS THAT HE WAS CLOSELY ATTACHED TO, AND IF EVER THEY WERE IN ACTION OR IN TROUBLE OF ANY SORT, THEY COULD ALWAYS RELY AND WOULD ALWAYS RECEIVE LETTERS AND ENQUIRIES FROM A MAN WHO WAS MORE THAN A FIGUREHEAD. HE WAS VERY MUCH PART OF THE UNIT. KATIE, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE FAMILY PROBABLY WATCHING AND HEARING THIS FROM INSIDE THE CASTLE. THE CARS ARE PULLING UP. THESE ARE REALLY FOR THE FIRST OF THE ROYAL ATTENDEES. SO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ZARA AND MIKE TINDALL, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT PRINCESS BEATRICE AND HER HUSBAND, PRINCESS EUGENIE AND HER HUSBAND ` DAUGHTERS OF THE DUKE OF YORK. THAT IS THE FIRST GROUP THAT WE HAVE FROM THE FAMILY. JUST YOUR THOUGHTS, KATIE, ABOUT THE SMALL CONGREGATION. IT IS A FAMILY FUNERAL. IT IS NOTHING LIKE A ROYAL FUNERAL LIKE WE HAVE SEEN IN PREVIOUS OCCASIONS. YOUR THOUGHTS ON WHAT THE FAMILY WILL BE THINKING AT THIS STAGE AS THEY PREPARE TO JOIN THIS PROCESSION. IT HAS BEEN A VERY LONG AND A VERY SAD WEEK FOR THE ROYAL FAMILY. EVERYTHING HAS BEEN PLANNED AND METICULOUS DETAIL. THE DUKE HIMSELF OVERSAW TO THE LETTER WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN TODAY. BUT STILL, THIS IS STILL A GRIEVING FAMILY IN MOURNING AND A FAMILY UNITED IN GRIEF. THE HAVE NOT BEEN TOGETHER FOR OVER A YEAR. IT IS A VERY SORRY OCCASION THAT THIS IS WHAT IS BRINGING THEM TOGETHER, BUT IT IS ALSO GOING TO BE A MOMENT TO REFLECT AND APPRECIATE THAT THE DUKE'S WISHES ARE GOING TO BE HONOURED. WHEN WE THINK ABOUT WHO IS UNABLE TO BE HERE, WE ARE TOLD, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT THE DUCHESS OF SUSSEX IS CERTAINLY WATCHING FROM HOME IN THE UNITED STATES. SHE WAS HOPEFUL TO ATTEND, AND WE HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT SADLY, SHE WAS NOT CLEARED FOR TRAVEL BY HER PHYSICIAN AT THIS STAGE. SO THAT IS A NOTABLE ABSENCE. BUT, OF COURSE, THE DUKE OF SUSSEX CERTAINLY WILL BE HERE. AND IT WILL BE INTERESTING AS WELL TO SEE HOW THAT PROCESSION FORMS UP AND WHAT THE VARIOUS MOVEMENTS ARE AS THEY GET READY TO PROCESS. THE DUCHESS WILL BE WATCHING FROM HER HOME IN CALIFORNIA. YES, THIS IS HARRY'S HOMECOMING. THIS HAS BEEN THE FIRST TIME HE HAS BEEN BACK IN THE UNITED KINGDOM SINCE HE IS OFFICIALLY STOOD DOWN FROM ROYAL DUTIES. THIS IS NOT THE HOMECOMING THAT HE WOULD HAVE WANTED BUT ONE HE WOULD HAVE WANTED TO BE HERE FOR NONETHELESS. WE ARE BACK HERE IN THE UPPER WARD, AND WE HAVE HAD THE DUKE OF KENT A COUSIN OF THE QUEEN AND THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER WHO HAVE JUST LEFT. REALLY, WE ARE WAITING FOR THE FINAL KIND OF CONSTRUCTION OF THIS PROCESSION, WHICH INVOLVES THE BAND OF THE GRENADIER GUARDS; IT INVOLVES THE VERY SENIOR MEMBERS OF THE MILITARY. WE HAVE MENTIONED THE BRIGADE MAJOR. WE WILL, OF COURSE, HAVE THE PRINCE OF WALES AND SENIOR MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY AND THEN SOME OF THE MEMBERS OF THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S STAFF AND THEN JUST BEFORE THE PROCESSION SETS OFF, THE QUEEN WILL JOIN THE PROCESSION, AND THAT WILL BE THE MOMENT WHERE THE NATION DRAWS BREATH. ABSOLUTELY. THIS, FOR HER... A GREAT FORMER PRIVATE SECRETARY SAID THAT THE THREE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS FOR THE QUEEN ARE GOOD HEALTH, GOOD FAITH AND PRINCE PHILIP. WE SEE THE IMMEDIATE FAMILY STARTING TO HEAD OFF. WE HAVE JUST SEEN THE DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE. WE WILL OBVIOUSLY WON'T BE SEEING THE CAMBRIDGE CHILDREN. ACTUALLY, I THINK I AM CORRECT IN SAYING THAT THIS IS THE DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE'S FIRST ROYAL FUNERAL THAT SHE HAS ATTENDED. WHAT WE WILL HAVE IN A SHORT WHILE IS THE MUSIC FROM THE BAND THAT THEY WILL BE PLAYING IN THE QUADRANGLE ITSELF. THAT IS A MAGNIFICENT SELECTION OF MUSIC. THIS IS THE GALILEE PORCH. THE GALILEE PORCH INTO... PRINCESS BEATRICE AND HER HUSBAND, AND WE SAW PRINCESS EUGENIE GO ON. THEY ARE BEING GREETED BY THE DEAN OF WINDSOR, WHO IS IN CHARGE OF THE SERVICE. A LITTLE WORD OF EXPLANATION HERE, BECAUSE WE WILL SEE THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, WHO GIVES THE BLESSING AT THE END OF THE SERVICE. ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL IS PART OF A CERTAIN CATEGORY A SPECIAL CATEGORY OF ROYAL PLACES OF WORSHIP, WHAT IS KNOWN AS A ROYAL PECULIAR. THESE PLACES OF WORSHIP ARE SOVEREIGNS' OWN PLACES OF WORSHIP. THEY ARE NOT PART OF THE FORMAL STRUCTURE IN TERMS OF AUTHORITY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. SO TO PUT IT ANOTHER WAY, THE DEAN OF WINDSOR IS THE BOSS HERE. PEOPLE MAY BE WONDERING WHY THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY IS TAKING THE BACK SEAT. BUT THE DEAN IS VERY MUCH IN CHARGE HERE. THE DEAN HAS BEEN HERE FOR MORE THAN 20 YEARS. THIS IS THE SPIRITUAL HOME OF THE MONARCHY. ALL OVER THIS CASTLE EVERYWHERE, YOU SEE THE CROSS OF ST. GEORGE. THAT IS WHY IT IS CALLED ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL. THAT IS WHY ST. GEORGE IS THE PATRON SAINT OF ENGLAND. YES, THE DEAN, AS YOU SAY, IS IN CHARGE OF ROYAL PECULIAR. THE DEANS OF WINDSOR BECOME VERY CLOSE TO THE FAMILY. LET US GET READY FOR THE MUSIC, BECAUSE I CAN TELL YOU THAT THIS IS GOING TO BE MOVING ` SELECTED BY THE DUKE HIMSELF, AND HE HAD VERY PARTICULAR TASTE. WE ARE GOING TO ENJOY THE MUSIC AND THINK ABOUT THE DUKE HIMSELF, AS HE SELECTED THIS. (BAND PLAYS 'WORLD IN UNION') (BAND PLAYS 'I VOW TO THEE MY COUNTRY') (BAND CONTINUES PLAYING) (BAND CONTINUES PLAYING) (BAND CONTINUES PLAYING) (BAND CONTINUES PLAYING HOLST'S 'THAXTED') THE PALLBEARERS, ALL SENIOR OFFICERS ASSOCIATED WITH THOSE REGIMENTS AND SERVICES WHO HAVE BEEN SELECTED TO BE HERE TODAY. THE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIPS, AS THEY HAVE BEEN GROUPED, THOSE SELECTED BY THE DUKE BECAUSE OF HIS CLOSE ASSOCIATIONS. THE PALLBEARERS REPRESENTING THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN INVITED TODAY. EVERYONE TAKING PART, WITH THEIR HEADS BOWED, AS WE WILL SEE THROUGHOUT THIS PROCESSION, THE ROUTE LINERS, MUSICIANS, ALL OF THEM WILL HAVE THEIR HEADS BOWED AS A MARK OF RESPECT, AFFECTION AND ADMIRATION, AND IN MEMORY OF THE DUKE HIMSELF. (BAND CONTINUES PLAYING) (BELL TOLLS SLOWLY) (BAND CONTINUES PLAYING) (POIGNANT MUSIC CONTINUES) (BAND CONTINUES PLAYING) (BAND PLAYS 'JERUSALEM') (BAND PLAYS 'JERUSALEM') (POIGNANT MUSIC CONTINUES) (POIGNANT MUSIC CONTINUES) (MUSIC CRESCENDOS) (POIGNANT MUSIC CONTINUES) (MUSIC CRESCENDOS) (POIGNANT MUSIC CONTINUES) (POIGNANT MUSIC CONTINUES) (POIGNANT MUSIC CONTINUES) (POIGNANT MUSIC CONTINUES) (POIGNANT MUSIC CONTINUES) (POIGNANT MUSIC CONTINUES) (POIGNANT MUSIC CONTINUES) (POIGNANT MUSIC CONTINUES) (POIGNANT MUSIC CONTINUES) HOORAY! ROYAL SALUTE! PRESENT... ARMS! (SILENCE) (SILENCE CONTINUES) (GRAVEL CRUNCHES SOFTLY) (GRAVEL CRUNCHES SOFTLY) (GRAVEL CRUNCHES SOFTLY) (SILENCE CONTINUES) (SILENCE) (SILENCE CONTINUES) (BAND PLAYS 'GOD SAVE THE QUEEN') (BAND PLAYS 'GOD SAVE THE QUEEN') FUNERAL PROCESSION, BY THE CENTRE, FORWARD MARCH! (BAND PLAYS MARCH) (BELL TOLLS) (BAND PLAYS MARCH) (BAND PLAYS MARCH) (BELL TOLLS) THE LAST JOURNEY BEGINS. AFTER OUR LIFETIME OF CAREFULLY KEEPING TWO STEPS BEHIND THE QUEEN, TODAY ON HIS FINAL JOURNEY, THE DUKE TAKES PRECEDENCE FOR THE FIRST AND THE LAST TIME. (BANG!) (BELL TOLLS) (BAND PLAYS MARCH) (BANG!) (BELL TOLLS) (BAND CONTINUES PLAYING MARCH) (BAND CONTINUES PLAYING MARCH) (BANG!) (BELL TOLLS) (BAND CONTINUES PLAYING MARCH) (BANG!) (BANG!) (BELL TOLLS) (BANG!) (BELL TOLLS) (BAND CONTINUES PLAYING MARCH) (BANG!) (BELL TOLLS) (BAND CONTINUES PLAYING MARCH) (BAND CONTINUES PLAYING MARCH) (BANG!) (BELL TOLLS) THE WREATH OF WHITE ROSES AND LILIES SELECTED BY HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. THE DUKE'S NAVAL CAP AND SWORD, GIVEN TO HIM ALL THOSE YEARS AGO BY HIS FATHER-IN-LAW. THE FUNERAL PROCESSION APPROACHES THE CLOISTER. THE GUARD OF HONOUR PROVIDED BY THE RIFLES. THE FUNERAL SERVICE WILL BEGIN AFTER THE NATIONAL SILENCE. ('GOD SAVE THE QUEEN' PLAYS) BURIAL PARTY, QUICK MARCH! BURIAL PARTY, HALT! EYES UP! EYES UP! BURIAL PARTY, PREPARE TO LIFT. LIFT. BURIAL PARTY, TURN. BURIAL PARTY, SLOW MARCH. BURIAL PARTY, STAND STEADY. (BOOM!) (BOOM!) (SILENCE) (BOOM!) (SILENCE CONTINUES) BURIAL PARTY, SLOW MARCH. (ORGAN PLAYS SOFTLY) (ORGAN PLAYS QUIETLY) (ORGAN CONTINUES PLAYING) THE END OF THE NATIONAL SILENCE, AND THE BEGINNING OF THE FUNERAL SERVICE, THE MUSIC AND READINGS SELECTED BY THE DUKE EDINBURGH, BEFORE HE IS FINALLY LAID TO REST IN THE ROYAL VAULT BENEATH ST GEORGE'S CHAPEL. (ORGAN CONTINUES PLAYING) BURIAL PARTY, STAND STEADY. BURIAL PARTY, SLOW MARCH. (FEET STAMP) # I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE, SAYETH THE LORD. # HE THAT BELIEVETH IN ME, # THOUGH HE WERE DEAD, # YET SHALL HE LIVE. # AND WHOSOEVER LIVETH AND BELIEVETH IN ME SHALL NEVER DIE. # I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVETH, # AND THAT HE SHALL STAND AT THE # LATTER DAY UPON THE EARTH. # I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVETH, # AND THAT HE SHALL STAND AT THE # LATTER DAY UPON THE EARTH. # AND THOUGH AFTER MY SKIN WORMS # DESTROY THIS BODY, # YET IN MY FLESH SHALL I SEE GOD, # WHOM I SHALL SEE FOR MYSELF, # AND MINE EYES SHALL BEHOLD, # AND NOT ANOTHER. # WE BROUGHT NOTHING # INTO THIS WORLD, # AND IT IS CERTAIN # WE CAN CARRY NOTHING OUT. # THE LORD GAVE, # AND THE LORD HATH TAKEN AWAY. # BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD. # BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD. # WE ARE HERE TODAY IN ST GEORGE'S CHAPEL TO COMMIT INTO THE HANDS OF GOD THE SOUL OF HIS SERVANT PRINCE PHILIP, DUKE OF EDINBURGH. WITH GRATEFUL HEARTS, WE REMEMBER THE MANY WAYS IN WHICH HIS LONG LIFE HAS BEEN A BLESSING TO US. WE HAVE BEEN INSPIRED BY HIS UNWAVERING LOYALTY TO OUR QUEEN, BY HIS SERVICE TO THE NATION AND THE COMMONWEALTH, BY HIS COURAGE, FORTITUDE AND FAITH. OUR LIVES HAVE BEEN ENRICHED THROUGH THE CHALLENGES THAT HE HAS SET US, THE ENCOURAGEMENT THAT HE HAS GIVEN US, HIS KINDNESS, HUMOUR AND HUMANITY. WE THEREFORE PRAY THAT GOD WILL GIVE US GRACE TO FOLLOW HIS EXAMPLE, AND THAT, WITH OUR BROTHER PHILIP, AT THE LAST, WE SHALL KNOW THE JOYS OF LIFE ETERNAL. (CHOIR SINGS 'ETERNAL FATHER, STRONG TO SAVE') # ETERNAL FATHER, STRONG TO SAVE, # WHOSE ARM DOTH BIND THE RESTLESS WAVE, # WHO BIDDEST THE MIGHTY OCEAN DEEP # ITS OWN APPOINTED LIMITS KEEP, # O HEAR US WHEN WE CRY TO THEE # FOR THOSE IN PERIL ON THE SEA. # O SAVIOUR, WHOSE ALMIGHTY WORD # THE WINDS AND WAVES SUBMISSIVE HEARD, # WHO WALKEDST ON THE FOAMING DEEP, # AND CALM AMID ITS RAGE DIDST SLEEP, # O HEAR US WHEN WE CRY TO THEE # FOR THOSE IN PERIL ON THE SEA. # O SACRED SPIRIT, WHO DIDST BROOD # UPON THE CHAOS DARK AND RUDE, # WHO BADDEST ITS ANGRY TUMULT CEASE, # AND GAVEST LIGHT AND LIFE AND PEACE, # O HEAR US WHEN WE CRY TO THEE # FOR THOSE IN PERIL ON THE SEA. # O TRINITY OF LOVE AND POWER, # OUR BRETHREN SHIELD IN DANGER'S HOUR; # FROM ROCK AND TEMPEST, FIRE AND FOE, # PROTECT THEM WHERESO'ER THEY GO, # AND EVER LET THERE RISE TO THEE # GLAD HYMNS OF PRAISE FROM LAND AND SEA. # A READING FROM THE BOOK ECCLESIASTICUS. LOOK AT THE RAINBOW AND PRAISE ITS MAKER. IT SHINES WITH A SUPREME BEAUTY, ROUNDING THE SKY WITH ITS GLEAMING ARC, A BOW BENT BY THE HANDS OF THE MOST HIGH. HIS COMMAND SPEEDS THE SNOW STORM AND SENDS THE SWIFT LIGHTNING TO EXECUTE HIS SENTENCE. TO THAT END THE STOREHOUSES ARE OPENED, AND THE CLOUDS FLY OUT LIKE BIRDS. BY HIS MIGHTY POWER THE CLOUDS ARE PILED UP AND THE HAILSTONES BROKEN SMALL. THE CRASH OF HIS THUNDER MAKES THE EARTH WRITHE, AND, WHEN HE APPEARS, AN EARTHQUAKE SHAKES THE HILLS. AT HIS WILL THE SOUTH WIND BLOWS, THE SQUALL FROM THE NORTH AND THE HURRICANE. HE SCATTERS THE SNOWFLAKES LIKE BIRDS ALIGHTING. THEY SETTLE LIKE A SWARM OF LOCUSTS. THE EYE IS DAZZLED BY THEIR BEAUTIFUL WHITENESS, AND AS THEY FALL, THE MIND IS ENTRANCED. HE SPREADS FROST ON THE EARTH LIKE SALT, AND ICICLES FORM LIKE POINTED STAKES. A COLD BLAST FROM THE NORTH, AND ICE GROWS HARD ON THE WATER, SETTLING ON EVERY POOL, AS THOUGH THE WATER WERE PUTTING ON A BREASTPLATE. HE CONSUMES THE HILLS, SCORCHES THE WILDERNESS, AND WITHERS THE GRASS LIKE FIRE. CLOUDY WEATHER QUICKLY PUTS ALL TO RIGHTS, AND DEW BRINGS WELCOME RELIEF AFTER HEAT. BY THE POWER OF HIS THOUGHT HE TAMED THE DEEP AND PLANTED IT WITH ISLANDS. THOSE WHO SAIL THE SEA TELL STORIES OF ITS DANGERS, WHICH ASTONISH ALL WHO HEAR THEM. IN IT ARE STRANGE AND WONDERFUL CREATURES, ALL KINDS OF LIVING THINGS AND HUGE SEA-MONSTERS. BY HIS OWN ACTION HE ACHIEVES HIS END, AND BY HIS WORD ALL THINGS ARE HELD TOGETHER. (CHOIR SINGS 'O BE JOYFUL IN THE LORD, ALL YE LANDS') # O BE JOYFUL IN THE LORD, # ALL YE LANDS. # SERVE THE LORD WITH GLADNESS, # AND COME BEFORE HIS PRESENCE # WITH A SONG. # BE YE SURE THAT THE LORD # HE IS GOD. # IT IS HE THAT HATH MADE US, # AND NOT WE OURSELVES. # WE ARE HIS PEOPLE # AND THE SHEEP OF HIS PASTURE. # O GO YOUR WAY # INTO HIS GATES WITH THANKSGIVING, # AND INTO HIS COURTS WITH PRAISE. # BE THANKFUL UNTO HIM, # AND SPEAK GOOD OF HIS NAME. # FOR THE LORD IS GRACIOUS, # HIS MERCY IS EVERLASTING, # AND HIS TRUTH ENDURETH # FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION. # GLORY BE TO THE FATHER, # AND TO THE SON, # AND TO THE HOLY GHOST, # AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING, # IS NOW, # AND EVER SHALL BE ` # WORLD WITHOUT END. # AMEN. # # WORLD WITHOUT END. # WORLD WITHOUT END. # AMEN. # A READING FROM ST JOHN'S GOSPEL. MARTHA SAID TO JESUS, 'LORD, IF YOU HAD BEEN HERE, MY BROTHER WOULD NOT HAVE DIED. 'AND EVEN NOW I KNOW THAT WHATEVER YOU ASK FROM GOD, 'GOD WILL GIVE YOU.' JESUS SAID TO HER, 'YOUR BROTHER WILL RISE AGAIN.' MARTHA SAID TO HIM, 'I KNOW THAT HE WILL RISE AGAIN 'IN THE RESURRECTION AT THE LAST DAY.' JESUS SAID TO HER, 'I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE. 'HE WHO BELIEVES IN ME, THOUGH HE DIE, 'YET SHALL HE LIVE, 'AND WHOEVER LIVES AND BELIEVES IN ME SHALL NEVER DIE. 'DO YOU BELIEVE THIS?' SHE SAID TO HIM, 'YES, LORD. 'I BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE THE CHRIST, 'THE SON OF GOD, HE WHO IS COMING INTO THE WORLD.' (ORGAN MUSIC PLAYS) # MY SOUL GIVE PRAISE UNTO THE LORD OF HEAVEN, # IN MAJESTY AND HONOUR CLOTHED. # THE EARTH HE MADE WILL NOT BE MOVED, # THE SEAS HE MADE TO BE ITS ROBE. # GIVE PRAISE. # GIVE PRAISE. # THE WATERS RISE ABOVE THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN # AND FLOW DOWN TO THE VALES AND LEAS, # AT SPRINGS, WILD ASSES QUENCH THEIR THIRST # AND BIRDS MAKE NEST AMID THE TREES. # THE TREES THE LORD HAS MADE ARE FULL OF VIGOUR, # THE FIR TREE IS A HOME FOR STORKS. # WILD GOATS FIND REFUGE IN THE HILLS, # FROM FOES THE CONIES SHELTER IN THE ROCKS. # MY SOUL GIVE PRAISE UNTO THE LORD OF HEAVEN, # IN MAJESTY AND HONOUR CLOTHED. # THE EARTH HE MADE WILL NOT BE MOVED, # THE SEAS HE MADE TO BE ITS ROBE. # GIVE PRAISE. # O LORD, HOW MANIFOLD IS YOUR CREATION. # ALL THINGS IN WISDOM YOU PROVIDE. # YOU GIVE YOUR RICHES TO THE EARTH, # AND TO THE SEA SO GREAT AND WIDE. # YOU TAKE YOUR CREATURES' BREATH, # AND LIFE IS ENDED; # YOUR BREATH GOES FORTH AND LIFE BEGINS. # YOUR HAND RENEWS THE FACE OF EARTH, # YOUR PRAISE MY WHOLE LIFE I WILL SING. # MY SOUL GIVE PRAISE UNTO THE LORD OF HEAVEN, # IN MAJESTY AND HONOUR CLOTHED. # THE EARTH HE MADE WILL NOT BE MOVED, # THE SEAS HE MADE TO BE ITS ROBE. # GIVE PRAISE. # # GIVE PRAISE. # LET US PRAY. # LORD, HAVE MERCY UPON US. # CHRIST, HAVE MERCY UPON US. # LORD, HAVE MERCY UPON US. # OUR FATHER, WHICH ART IN HEAVEN, # HALLOWED BE THY NAME; # THY KINGDOM COME; # THY WILL BE DONE # IN EARTH # AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. # GIVE US THIS DAY # OUR DAILY BREAD. # AND FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES, # AS WE FORGIVE # THEM THAT TRESPASS AGAINST US. # AND LEAD US NOT # INTO TEMPTATION, # BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL. # AMEN. # # ENTER NOT INTO JUDGEMENT WITH THY SERVANT, O LORD. # FOR IN THY SIGHT SHALL NO MAN LIVING BE JUSTIFIED. # FOR IN THY SIGHT SHALL NO MAN LIVING BE JUSTIFIED. # GRANT UNTO HIM ETERNAL REST, # AND LET LIGHT PERPETUAL SHINE UPON HIM. # WE BELIEVE VERILY # TO SEE THE GOODNESS OF THE LORD. # IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING. # O LORD, HEAR OUR PRAYER. # AND LET OUR CRY COME UNTO THEE. # O MERCIFUL GOD, THE FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHO IS THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE, IN WHOM WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH SHALL LIVE, THOUGH HE DIE, AND WHOSOEVER LIVETH AND BELIEVETH IN HIM SHALL NOT DIE ETERNALLY, WHO ALSO HATH TAUGHT US BY HIS HOLY APOSTLE SAINT PAUL NOT TO BE SORRY, AS MEN WITHOUT HOPE, FOR THEM THAT SLEEP IN HIM. WE MEEKLY BESEECH THEE, O FATHER, THAT WHEN WE SHALL DEPART THIS LIFE, WE MAY REST IN HIM, AS OUR HOPE IS THIS OUR BROTHER DOTH, AND THAT, AT THE GENERAL RESURRECTION IN THE LAST DAY, WE MAY BE FOUND ACCEPTABLE IN THY SIGHT AND RECEIVE THAT BLESSING, WHICH THY WELL-BELOVED SON SHALL THEN PRONOUNCE TO ALL THAT LOVE AND FEAR THEE, SAYING, COME YE BLESSED CHILDREN OF MY FATHER, RECEIVE THE KINGDOM PREPARED FOR YOU FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD. GRANT THIS, WE BESEECH THEE, O MERCIFUL FATHER, THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, OUR MEDIATOR AND REDEEMER. AMEN. O ETERNAL GOD, BEFORE WHOSE FACE THE GENERATIONS RISE AND PASS AWAY, THYSELF UNCHANGED, ABIDING, WE BLESS THY HOLY NAME FOR ALL WHO HAVE COMPLETED THEIR EARTHLY COURSE IN THY FAITH AND FOLLOWING, AND ARE NOW AT REST; WE REMEMBER BEFORE THEE THIS DAY PHILIP, DUKE OF EDINBURGH, RENDERING THANKS UNTO THEE ` FOR HIS RESOLUTE FAITH AND LOYALTY, FOR HIS HIGH SENSE OF DUTY AND INTEGRITY, FOR HIS LIFE OF SERVICE TO THE NATION AND COMMONWEALTH, AND FOR THE COURAGE AND INSPIRATION OF HIS LEADERSHIP. TO HIM, WITH ALL THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED, GRANT THY PEACE; LET LIGHT PERPETUAL SHINE UPON THEM; AND IN THY LOVING WISDOM AND ALMIGHTY POWER WORK IN THEM THE GOOD PURPOSE OF THY PERFECT WILL; THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD. AMEN. O LORD, WHO DIDST GIVE TO THY SERVANT ST GEORGE GRACE TO LAY ASIDE THE FEAR OF MAN, AND TO BE FAITHFUL EVEN UNTO DEATH, GRANT THAT WE, UNMINDFUL OF WORLDLY HONOUR, MAY FIGHT THE WRONG, UPHOLD THY RULE, AND SERVE THEE TO OUR LIVES' END; THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD. AMEN. GOD SAVE OUR GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN AND ALL THE COMPANIONS, LIVING AND DEPARTED, OF THE MOST HONOURABLE AND NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER. AMEN. O GOD OF THE SPIRITS OF ALL FLESH, WE PRAISE THY HOLY NAME FOR THY SERVANT PHILIP, DUKE OF EDINBURGH, WHO HAS LEFT US A FAIR PATTERN OF VALIANT AND TRUE KNIGHTHOOD; GRANT UNTO HIM THE ASSURANCE OF THINE ANCIENT PROMISE THAT THOU WILT EVER BE WITH THOSE WHO GO DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS AND OCCUPY THEIR BUSINESS IN GREAT WATERS. AND WE BESEECH THEE THAT, FOLLOWING HIS GOOD EXAMPLE AND STRENGTHENED BY HIS FELLOWSHIP, WE MAY AT THE LAST, TOGETHER WITH HIM, BE PARTAKERS OF THY HEAVENLY KINGDOM; THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD. AMEN. O LORD GOD, WHEN THOU GIVEST TO THY SERVANTS TO ENDEAVOUR ANY GREAT MATTER, GRANT US ALSO TO KNOW THAT IT IS NOT THE BEGINNING, BUT THE CONTINUING OF THE SAME UNTO THE END, UNTIL IT BE THOROUGHLY FINISHED, WHICH YIELDETH THE TRUE GLORY; THROUGH HIM, WHO FOR THE FINISHING OF THY WORK LAID DOWN HIS LIFE, OUR REDEEMER, JESUS CHRIST. AMEN. ALMIGHTY GOD, FATHER OF ALL MERCIES AND GIVER OF ALL COMFORT, DEAL GRACIOUSLY, WE PRAY THEE, WITH THOSE WHO MOURN; THAT CASTING EVERY CARE ON THEE THEY MAY KNOW THE CONSOLATION OF THY LOVE; THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD. AMEN. (ORGAN PLAYS) # GIVE REST, O CHRIST, # TO THY SERVANT WITH THY SAINTS, # WHERE SORROW AND PAIN ARE NO MORE, # NEITHER SIGHING, # BUT LIFE EVERLASTING. # THOU ONLY ART IMMORTAL, # THE CREATOR AND MAKER OF MAN, # AND WE ARE MORTAL, # FORMED OF THE EARTH, # AND UNTO EARTH SHALL WE RETURN. # FOR SO THOU DIDST ORDAIN # WHEN THOU CREATEDEST ME, # SAYING, DUST THOU ART, # AND UNTO DUST SHALT THOU RETURN. # ALL WE GO DOWN TO THE DUST. # AND, WEEPING, O'ER THE GRAVE, # WE MAKE OUR SONG ` # ALLELUIA # ALLELUIA # ALLELUIA. # GIVE REST, O CHRIST, # TO THY SERVANT WITH THY SAINTS, # WHERE SORROW AND PAIN ARE NO MORE, # NEITHER SIGHING, # BUT LIFE EVERLASTING. # GO FORTH UPON THY JOURNEY FROM THIS WORLD, O CHRISTIAN SOUL, IN THE NAME OF GOD THE FATHER ALMIGHTY, WHO CREATED THEE, IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, WHO SUFFERED FOR THEE, IN THE NAME OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, WHO STRENGTHENETH THEE. MAY THY PORTION THIS DAY BE IN PEACE, AND THY DWELLING IN THE HEAVENLY JERUSALEM. AMEN. THUS IT HATH PLEASED ALMIGHTY GOD TO TAKE OUT OF THIS TRANSITORY LIFE UNTO HIS DIVINE MERCY THE LATE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS AND MOST EXALTED PRINCE PHILIP, DUKE OF EDINBURGH, EARL OF MERIONETH AND BARON GREENWICH, KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER, KNIGHT OF THE MOST ANCIENT AND MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE THISTLE, MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF MERIT, KNIGHT GRAND CROSS OF THE ROYAL VICTORIAN ORDER, UPON WHOM HAD BEEN CONFERRED THE ROYAL VICTORIAN CHAIN, GRAND MASTER AND KNIGHT GRAND CROSS OF THE MOST EXCELLENT ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, LORD HIGH ADMIRAL OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, ONE OF HER MAJESTY'S MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL, ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET, FIELD MARSHAL IN THE ARMY AND MARSHAL OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE, HUSBAND OF HER MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY ELIZABETH II BY THE GRACE OF GOD OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND AND OF HER OTHER REALMS AND TERRITORIES QUEEN, HEAD OF THE COMMONWEALTH, DEFENDER OF THE FAITH, SOVEREIGN OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER, WHOM MAY GOD PRESERVE AND BLESS WITH LONG LIFE, HEALTH AND HONOUR AND ALL WORLDLY HAPPINESS. (BAGPIPES SKIRL) (PIPE LAMENT CONTINUES) (PIPE LAMENT CONTINUES) (PIPE LAMENT CONTINUES) (BAGPIPE MUSIC FADES SOFTLY) (BAGPIPE MUSIC FADES SOFTLY) (STATE TRUMPETERS OF THE HOUSEHOLD CAVALRY PLAY 'THE LAST POST') ('THE LAST POST' CONTINUES) ('THE LAST POST' CONTINUES) ('THE LAST POST' CONTINUES) ('THE LAST POST' CONTINUES) ('THE LAST POST' CONTINUES) (THE BUGLERS OF THE ROYAL MARINES PLAY 'REVEILLE') (THE BUGLERS OF THE ROYAL MARINES PLAY 'REVEILLE') GOD GRANT TO THE LIVING GRACE, TO THE DEPARTED, REST. TO THE CHURCH, THE QUEEN AND THE COMMONWEALTH AND ALL PEOPLE, UNITY, PEACE AND CONCORD. AND TO US AND ALL GOD'S SERVANTS, LIFE EVERLASTING. AND THE BLESSING OF GOD ALMIGHTY, THE FATHER, THE SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT. BE WITH YOU ALL AND TO REMAIN WITH YOU ALWAYS. AMEN. # GOD SAVE OUR GRACIOUS QUEEN, # LONG LIVE OUR NOBLE QUEEN, # GOD SAVE THE QUEEN. # SEND HER VICTORIOUS, # HAPPY AND GLORIOUS, # LONG TO REIGN OVER US, # GOD SAVE THE QUEEN. # (BACH'S 'PRELUDE AND FUGUE IN C MINOR BWV 546' PLAYS) PRINCE PHILIP, DUKE OF EDINBURGH, TAKEN TO HIS RESTING PLACE IN THE ROYAL VAULT BENEATH ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN WILL BE 95. SHE IS BEING ACCOMPANIED BY THE DEAN OF WINDSOR AND THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. FOLLOWED BY PRINCE CHARLES, PRINCE ANDREW, PRINCESS ANNE, PRINCE EDWARDS AND THEIR FAMILIES. A FUNERAL SERVICE SO POWERFUL IN ITS SIMPLICITY AND ITS ELEMENTS REFLECTING THE LONG LIFE AND THE UNSHAKEABLE CHRISTIAN FAITH OF THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH. FAMILY WILL RETURN TO THE STATE APARTMENTS, WINDSOR CASTLE, WHERE THE QUEEN AND DUKE HAVE SPENT SO MUCH OF THE PAST YEAR DURING THE PANDEMIC. GLORY OF THE ORDER OF THE GARTER, ITS BANNERS THE ICONS OF THE KNIGHTS AND THE INSIGNIA OF THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH PLACED ON THE ALTAR. ST GEORGE'S CHAPEL, THE QUEEN'S STATE BENTLEY READY TO TAKE HER MAJESTY BACK TO HER HOME AT WINDSOR. DEAN OF WINDSOR WILL BE COMFORTING THE QUEEN, AS WILL OTHER MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY, REFLECTING ON THE SERVICE. SHE WILL LEAVE THE CHAPEL VIA THE GALILEE PORCH, WHERE SHE AND THE DUKE ENTERED AND LEFT SO MANY TIMES OVER THE YEARS DURING THEIR LONG LIFE TOGETHER. THE ROUTES WERE EARLIER THERE WERE HUNDREDS OF MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES LINING THE ROUTE ALL THE WAY DOWN CHAPEL HILL TO THAT HORSESHOE CLOISTER AND THAT GUARD OF HONOUR EMPTY NOW. TRANQUIL IN THE SPRING SUNSHINE. ROYAL CARS PULLING UP, WAITING FOR THE ROYAL GUESTS TO EMERGE. THERE WILL BE SOME TALK INEVITABLY ABOUT THE ELEMENTS OF THE SERVICE ITSELF, THE FACT THAT DUKE HAD SELECTED THE ORDER AND THE PIECES OF THE FACT THAT THE DUKE HAD SELECTED THE ORDER AND THE PIECES OF OUTSTANDINGLY BEAUTIFUL MUSIC THAT WE HEARD, THE SETTING OF PSALM 104 TO THE MUSIC THAT WAS COMMISSIONED, THE GREAT READING FROM THE BOOK OF THE PREACHER, ECCLESIASTES, WITH ITS DRAMATIC LANGUAGE ABOUT THE FORCES OF NATURE, THE BEAUTY OF NATURE AND THE TERROR OF NATURE, REFLECTING THE DUKE'S LOVE OF NATURE, HIS LOVE OF THE ENVIRONMENT ` A READING WHICH SUMMED UP HIS ATTITUDE TO LIFE AND THE CAUSES THAT HE CHAMPIONED. DEAN OF WINDSOR PRESIDED OVER THE SERVICE, OFFICIATED WITH DIGNITY AND CALM, ACCOMPANYING THE QUEEN TO THE CAR. PRESENT ARMS. (BACH'S 'PRELUDE AND FUGUE IN C MINOR BWV 546' PLAYS) THE ROUTE WHERE EARLIER THE LAND ROVER HEARSE DESCENDED TO THE CHAPEL NOW IN REVERSE AS HER MAJESTY GOES VIA THE TOWER, THE STATE FLAG FLYING, RETURNING TO THE PRIVATE APARTMENTS AT THE CASTLE. DUKE OF SUSSEX, PRINCE HARRY, WITHOUT HIS WIFE, DUCHESS OF SUSSEX, WHO WAS ADVISED NOT TO TRAVEL TO THIS FUNERAL, BECAUSE OF MEDICAL REASONS; AND ALL OTHER SENIOR MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY. HARRY AND HIS BROTHER EXCHANGING A FEW WORDS AS THEY WALK BACK UP THE CHAPEL HILL, WHICH THEY KNOW SO WELL. DUKE OF YORK IN A RELATIVELY RARE PUBLIC APPEARANCE AT HIS FATHER'S FUNERAL. (BACH'S 'PRELUDE AND FUGUE IN C MINOR BWV 546' FADES) THEY TWO WILL HAVE BEEN MARKED BY THE SIMPLE DIGNITY OF THE FUNERAL THAT THEY HAVE ATTENDED. THE SECOND READING, READ BY THE ARCHBISHOP, A SHORT READING, BUT A READING THAT DELIVERED ONE MESSAGE, AND THAT WAS TO BE OF FIRM FAITH, OF ROBUST CHRISTIAN FAITH, AND TO CONFRONT THE DOUBTS OF FAITH HEAD ON, VERY MUCH IN KEEPING WITH THE DUKE'S OWN PHILOSOPHY. THE ROYAL TOWN OF WINDSOR IN THE ROYAL BOROUGH WHICH HAS SEEN SO MANY ROYAL OCCASIONS OVER THE YEARS. BATHED IN SUNSHINE TODAY. THE GREAT RIVER THERE IN THE BACKGROUND. THE CARS TAKING THE LAST REMAINING ELEMENTS OF THE CONGREGATION FROM THE CHAPEL BACK TO THE CASTLE ABOVE. I AM SURE THAT YOU AT HOME WILL HAVE IN REFLECTING AS WE DID IN THE STUDIO ON THE BEAUTY OF THAT SERVICE IN ITS SIMPLICITY AND THE FACT THAT STUDIO ON THE BEAUTY OF THAT SERVICE IN ITS SIMPLICITY AND THE FACT THAT THE SERVICE WAS NOTHING LIKE THE ORIGINAL PLANS DEVELOPED OVER DECADES FOR THE FUNERAL OF A PROMINENT MEMBER OF THE ROYAL FAMILY, SUCH AS THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH; MORE LOW-KEY, FAR FEWER PEOPLE ATTENDING. YES, THERE WERE HUNDREDS OF MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES, BUT NOT ON THE SCALE OF WHAT HAD BEEN ATTENDED ORIGINALLY. AND YET IT DELIVERED A VERY POWERFUL EFFECT. IT AFFECTED EVERYONE HERE, AND I'M SURE THAT YOU AT HOME TO WERE IMPRESSED AND WERE AFFECTED BY AND I'M SURE THAT YOU AT HOME TOO WERE IMPRESSED AND WERE AFFECTED BY THE ELEGANCE OF WHAT WE HEARD AND WHAT WE SAW. ROBERT AND KATIE, IT IS GOOD TO REFLECT, HAVING GONE THROUGH THAT KIND OF SERVICE, JUST TO IMAGINE WHAT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN LIKE IN THE CHAPEL ITSELF FOR THOSE ATTENDING AND FOR HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. ONE IMAGINES WHAT MIGHT POSSIBLY HAVE BEEN GOING THROUGH HER MIND AS THE COFFIN WAS LOWERED, THE WORDS OF THE COMMENDATION WERE SPOKEN BY THE DEAN OF WINDSOR. ABSOLUTELY. FOR EVERYBODY WATCHING AT HOME, IT WAS DEEPLY, DEEPLY MOVING AND A FUNERAL LIKE NO OTHER. THE QUEEN CUT SUCH A SOLITARY FIGURE. TO SEE HER THERE IN A FACE MASK, WHICH MAY HAVE BEEN A BLESSING IN MANY WAYS, BECAUSE IT DID SHIELD HER. THE CAMERAS WERE RESPECTFUL OF THE QUEEN, BUT AT POINTS TO SEE HER HEAD BOWED IN PRAYER, AND GRIEF, IT WAS DIFFICULT TO SEE. THERE IS NO HUMANITY IN COVID 19. THIS IS A FUNERAL WHERE MANY WOULD HAVE GONE THROUGH THIS, PEOPLE WATCHING AT HOME WHO WOULD RECOGNISE WHAT THE QUEEN HAS GONE THROUGH. EVERYBODY'S SYMPATHIES WOULD BE WITH HER. SHE WAS STOIC, BUT VERY MUCH SOLO. IT WAS QUITE HEARTBREAKING TO SEE HER SITTING THERE, ALL ALONE, A VERY SOMBRE IMAGE AND ONE THAT EVERYONE WILL BE REFLECTING ON. THAT IS THE IMAGE THAT PEOPLE HAVE IN MIND. ONE OF THE MOST PERSONAL AND POIGNANT MOMENTS. I THINK THAT WAS THE MOST INTENSE STATE OCCASION ANY OF US WILL HAVE SEEN. THERE WAS ONE MOMENT AS GARTER KING OF ARMS WAS READING OUT THE STYLES AND TITLES OF THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, AND HE READ OUT HUSBAND, FATHER. IT WAS THE ONLY PERSONAL MOMENT IN THE SERVICE. THAT ONE WORD, HUSBAND. AND I THINK EVERYONE AT HOME WILL HAVE FELT, WATCHING THE QUEEN, FELT FOR HER. THIS IS SUCH A POIGNANT, MOMENT, PARTICULARLY BECAUSE OF COVID. AND AS A RESULT OF THAT, I THINK EVERYONE WILL HAVE FELT ALMOST INVESTED IN THAT. IF YOU HAVE LOST A LOVED ONE DURING THIS PANDEMIC, IF YOU HAD A LOVED ONE WHO SERVED IN THE ARMED FORCES, IF YOU HAD FAMILY WHO HAD BEEN IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR, YOU WERE WATCHING THAT GREATEST GENERATION, AND I THINK EVERYONE WILL HAVE FELT AT THAT MOMENT EVERYONE WOULD HAVE WANTED TO SAY IN THE TIME-HONOURED TRADITION OF WAVING OFF A GREAT SAILOR, 'GODSPEED, SIR.' WE OWE IT AS WELL TO LOTS OF PEOPLE WATCHING TO REMEMBER THAT THERE ARE MANY FAMILIES OUT THERE WHO HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO ATTEND A FUNERAL, HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO GRIEVE IN THE WAY THEY WOULD HAVE WISHED TO HAVE DONE OVER THE PAST YEAR, AND THE HOPE IS THAT THEY WILL HAVE DERIVED SOME COMFORT FROM SEEING A FUNERAL LIKE THIS. YOU SAID, ROBERT, THE PERSONAL ELEMENTS WERE NOT OVERTLY STATED. THERE WAS THE WORD 'HUSBAND'. AND YET IN ALL OF THE SELECTIONS, YOU COULD DETECT THE REASONS AND FACTORS BEHIND THE CHOICES. I MENTIONED THAT ASTONISHINGLY STRONG READING, WHICH WAS ABOUT THE FORCES OF NATURE, THE BEAUTY OF NATURE AND THE SHEER TERROR OF NATURE. AND THAT, FOR ME, REALLY DID SUM UP THE DUKE'S EMBRACING OF THE OUTSIDE WORLD, REALLY, AND THE FACT THAT HE WANTED TO CONSERVE IT AT ALL COSTS. 'FOR THOSE IN PERIL ON THE SEA.' THOSE WORDS, AND CONSERVATION, AS YOU SAY, HUW, IT WAS SO SUBTLY DONE. EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM WAS WHAT WAS UNSAID. AND THERE ON THE ALTAR, ALL THE INSIGNIA. AND AT THE CENTRE OF IT ALL, THE ORDER OF THE GARTER MEANT SO MUCH. THE OLDEST KNIGHT OF THE GARTER IN ITS HISTORY. NO ONE HAS DONE THAT PROCESSION DOWN THE HILL MORE OFTEN THAN HE AND HER MAJESTY. THERE COULD BE NO FINER PROCESSION, OF ALL THE GARTER PROCESSIONS, THAN THAT ONE WE SAW TODAY. IT'S NICE AT TIMES LIKE THIS, KATIE, TO THINK BACK TO EARLIER DAYS. WE THINK OF THE QUEEN, WHO IS NOW ALONE. SHE IS HOPEFULLY GETTING ALL THE SUPPORT SHE NEEDS. THAT SHE IS ALONE, IN A DIFFERENT SENSE. BUT TO THINK BACK TO THEM AS A YOUNG COUPLE, WE HAVE IMAGES WE CAN SHARE WITH YOU. THEY ARE FROM ANOTHER TIME. I KNOW THAT. BUT THEY JUST REMIND US OF THE FACT THAT THEY WERE VERY MUCH IN LOVE, AND THEY WERE NOT A COUPLE WHO CAME TOGETHER FOR ANY STRATEGIC REASONS, IN THAT SENSE. IT WAS A VERY ENDURING LOVE STORY, A 73-YEAR MARRIAGE, REALLY QUITE REMARKABLE. THEY CELEBRATED THEIR DIAMOND WEDDING ANNIVERSARY. THE DUKE DOES REPRESENT A GENERATION WHICH IS PAST NOW, AND ONE THAT CONTINUES TO LIVE ON IN THE QUEEN, BUT THEIRS WAS A WONDERFUL LOVE STORY, AND THIS IS ONE OF THE FINAL IMAGES WE SAW OF THE DUKE. I THINK THE QUEEN DOES TAKE GREAT COMFORT IN THESE TIMES THEY HAD TOGETHER AT WINDSOR THIS PAST YEAR. FOR ALL THE HARDSHIP, IT WAS A YEAR THAT BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER. AND I THINK THAT MUST BE A GREAT COMFORT, THAT THEY WERE ABLE TO SHARE SO MUCH TIME TOGETHER HERE IN WINDSOR. I THINK WE'RE GOING TO SEE MUCH MORE OF WINDSOR IN THE FUTURE. WINDSOR HAS REEMERGED, REALLY, AS SOMEWHERE WHICH IS MORE CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THE FAMILY, FOR MILLIONS AROUND THE WORLD. NOW IT HAS BEEN MUCH MORE STRONGLY ASSOCIATED, BECAUSE OF THE EVENTS OF THE PAST YEAR, BECAUSE OF TODAY, WITH THE FAMILY AND THE LIFE OF THE FAMILY. THE SEAT OF THE HOUSE OF WINDSOR HAS NEVER REALLY BEEN QUITE AS CENTRAL AND AS PERSONAL AS IT HAS BEEN TODAY. IT WAS MENTIONED EARLIER IN YOUR PROGRAMME, IT WAS JUST UP THE HILL, DURING THE WAR, WHEN PRINCE PHILIP WAS A YOUNG NAVAL OFFICER AND CAME HERE TO STAY, AND HAD NO HOME AND WAS INVITED BY THE ROYAL FAMILY, AND SAW PRINCESS ELIZABETH TAKING PART IN CHRISTMAS PANTOMIMES. TODAY UNDERLINES THE FACT THAT, IN THE SAME WAY AS HISTORY TALKS ABOUT VICTORIA AND ALBERT, HISTORY IS GOING TO TALK FOREVERMORE ABOUT ELIZABETH AND PHILIP. I LOVE THIS IMAGE. THIS WAS RELEASED YESTERDAY. IT IS SOPHIE WESSEX'S PHOTO. IT WAS TAKEN IN THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS BY THE COUNTESS OF WESSEX. THE SMILES TELL YOU ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THIS COUPLE. YOU TALKED ABOUT NATURE EARLIER, BUT THEY WERE ALWAYS AT THEIR HAPPIEST AT BALMORAL. YOU CAN SEE FROM THE RELAXED INFORMALITY OF THIS PICTURE. IT IS SO SPECIAL. THIS WAS THE PARTNERSHIP AT THE HEART OF THE ROYAL FAMILY. THERE IS A WARMTH TO THAT WHICH YOU RARELY SEE IN PHOTOS OF THE ROYAL COUPLE, BECAUSE OVER THE YEARS THEY HAVE BEEN PHOTOGRAPHED IN MORE FORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES. THAT IMAGE HAS CREATED A WAVE OF AFFECTION OVERNIGHT, TO SEE IT IN THE LAST 24 HOURS. ALL THE TEAM HERE AT THE BBC LOVED THE IMAGE, BECAUSE IT SPOKE VOLUMES ABOUT A NATURAL WARMTH BETWEEN THEM, WHICH WAS NOT ALWAYS EVIDENT, BECAUSE OF THE ROLES THEY FULFIL. THAT IS THE NICE THING ABOUT IT. THE OTHER THING I WANTED TO MENTION AT THIS POINT IS TO DO WITH THE FUTURE. WHICH IS A DIFFICULT THING FOR US TO TALK ABOUT, IN TERMS OF HER MAJESTY, WHO IS 95 VERY SOON, IN A FEW DAYS' TIME. AND TO CONTEMPLATE THE FUTURE OF THE ROYAL FAMILY, BECAUSE PHILIP HAD STRONG VIEWS ABOUT THE WAY THE CROWN AND THE MONARCHY FITTED INTO MODERN SOCIETY, AT A TIME WHEN PEOPLE WERE HAVING A VIGOUROUS DEBATE ABOUT WHETHER IT FITTED AT ALL. WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE US? HE WAS THE GREAT INNOVATOR. HE REALLY DID HELP STEER THIS INSTITUTION, KEEP IT ABREAST OF THE TIMES, NOT AHEAD OF THE TIMES, THAT HE WAS CONSCIOUS AND HAD TO MOVE WITH THE TIMES. AND THAT HAS RUBBED OFF ON ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY. WHAT WE HAVE SEEN OF HER MAJESTY IN THE LAST FEW DAYS, THE WAY SHE HAS STILL GONE ABOUT TAKING CALLS FROM PRIME MINISTERS AROUND THE COMMONWEALTH, HAS VERY MUCH HAD A HANDS-ON ROLE IN THE ARRANGEMENTS, THIS SIGNALS A CLEAR DUTY BEFORE SELF. HER BIRTHDAY WILL BE A VERY PERSONAL AFFAIR, AS IT USUALLY IS. BUT NEXT YEAR IS HER PLATINUM JUBILEE. WE HAVE NEVER HAD ONE OF THOSE. DUTY, WE ARE GOING TO SEE IT NEXT MONTH, THE STATE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT BECKONS. OUR SOVEREIGN WILL BE AT THE HEART OF THAT, AS SHE ALWAYS HAS BEEN. THAT FUNDAMENTALLY IS WHAT COMES FIRST FOR HER. LET'S PAUSE FOR A SECOND. WE WILL TALK A LITTLE MORE BEFORE WE END HERE TODAY ON THE SERVICE AND WHAT IT MEANS, AND WHAT PERHAPS MIGHT HAPPEN IN THE NEXT YEAR OR TWO, GIVEN THE RESPONSIBILITIES, AND THE PRINCE OF WALES, AND THE WAY HIS ROLE HAS BEEN EVOLVING. I WOULD LIKE TO POP OUTSIDE AND JOIN SOPHIE, WHO WAS ON THE LONG WALK EARLIER. I AM JUST OUTSIDE THE CASTLE WALLS. THERE HAS BEEN A STRANGE STILLNESS THAT HAS DESCENDED ON THE TOWN OF WINDSOR TODAY. IF IT HADN'T BEEN FOR COVID, THE SCENES TODAY WOULD HAVE BEEN SO DIFFERENT. THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WOULD HAVE PACKED THE STREETS AROUND THE CASTLE AND LINED THE LONG WALK. MOST DID STAY AWAY, AND RESPECTED THE WISHES OF BUCKINGHAM PALACE NOT TO COME HERE. YOU COULDN'T SEE ANYTHING FROM OUTSIDE WINDSOR CASTLE. THAT DID NOT STOP HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE TURNING UP AND GATHERING AROUND, IN THE STREETS HERE AT ABOUT 2 O'CLOCK THIS AFTERNOON, MOST OF THEM WERE WATCHING WHAT WAS GOING ON ON THEIR MOBILE PHONES, WANTING TO BE AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE HERE TO THE CASTLE, TO PAY THEIR RESPECTS TO THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH. PEOPLE HERE KNEW HIM PRETTY WELL. HE SPENT A LOT OF TIME HERE WITH THE QUEEN OVER THE YEARS. I SPOKE TO ONE MAN WHO SAID HE WAS OFTEN SEEN RIDING HIS CARRIAGE UP AND DOWN THE LONG WALK. HE WOULD GREET THE LOCALS. HE WOULD TALK TO THE MAN WHO RAN THE PUB. HE ALWAYS ACKNOWLEDGED THEM, AND HE WILL BE GREATLY MISSED. ON A DAY LIKE THIS, WE HAVE SEEN SUCH A BEAUTIFUL, INTIMATE FAMILY SERVICE, AND YOU CAN ONLY IMAGINE THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THE DUKE WOULD HAVE WANTED. SOPHIE, THANKS VERY MUCH. HERE WE ARE BACK INSIDE THE CASTLE. IF WE POP BACK TO THE STUDIO, WILL SEE MORE PROOF THAT EVENTS ARE COMING TO A CLOSE, BECAUSE PASSING US THERE, BEHIND ROBERT, WE HAVE THE DEFENCE ADVISORS FROM THE COMMONWEALTH. WE MENTIONED THEM EARLIER. ANOTHER ELEMENT OF TODAY'S EVENTS WHICH JUST UNDERLINES THE DUKE'S BELIEF IN THE POWER OF THE COMMONWEALTH. AS WE DISCUSSED EARLIER, THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF TALK ABOUT BRITAIN'S PLACE IN THE WORLD, HEATED DEBATE ABOUT BRITAIN'S PLACE IN THE WORLD OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS AND BARONESS SCOTLAND TOLD US EARLIER, IT IS QUITE POSSIBLY A GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR PEOPLE TO REVISIT THE CONCEPT OF THE COMMONWEALTH AS A HEALTHY FRAMEWORK FOR BRITAIN TO BE REACHING OUT MAYBE IN A MORE ASSERTIVE OR CERTAINLY A MORE CONSTRUCTIVE WAY THAN SOME PEOPLE HAVE PERCEIVED. ABSOLUTELY. NO ONE DID MORE TO HELP THE QUEEN AS HEAD OF THE COMMONWEALTH THAN THE DUKE. HE HAD MORE THAN 200 VISITS OVER THE COMMONWEALTH. IT IS NICE TO SEE THE ATTACHES HERE TODAY. ON THE ALTAR, THE ORDER OF CANBERRA, THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIA. HE KNEW IT INTIMATELY. IN THE '60S AND '70S, WHEN PARTS OF THE COMMONWEALTH GAINED INDEPENDENCE, THE QUEEN WOULD SEND PRINCE PHILIP TO BE HER REPRESENTATIVE. BOTH OF THEM, THE QUEEN AND HE, GREW UP WITH THE COMMONWEALTH. IT ONLY CAME INTO EXISTENCE IN MODERN FORM TWO YEARS AFTER THEIR MARRIAGE, SO THEY HAVE BEEN CENTRAL TO HOLDING IT TOGETHER. THERE WERE ONLY EIGHT MEMBERS AT THE CORONATION. NOW THERE ARE 54. WE ARE CATCHING A GLIMPSE OF THE UNMISTAKABLE FIGURE OF THE MAJOR GENERAL COMMANDING THE HOUSEHOLD DIVISION, AND THE MORE COMMANDING FIGURE OF GARRISON SERGEANT MAJOR ANDREW STOKES, WHO HAS PLAYED A BIG PART IN MAKING SURE THAT WORKED SO PRECISELY. I DIDN'T SPOT ANYTHING WRONG. I DON'T THINK THERE WAS ANYTHING WRONG TO SPOT. IT WAS ABSOLUTELY PERFECT. I THINK THE DUKE WAS PROUD OF HIS ATTACHMENTS WITH THE MILITARY, AND THEY DID HIM PROUD TODAY. A LITTLE THOUGHT BEFORE WE SAY GOODBYE TO VIEWERS. FROM YOU, KATIE, FIRST OF ALL, JUST TO COME BACK TO THIS NOTION OF WHERE WE GO NOW, AND THE WAY DUTIES CLEARLY HAVE STARTED TO BE DEVOLVED, SHARED IN A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT WAY. HOW WILL WE SEE MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY, NOT JUST THE PRINCE OF WALES, BUT THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE AND DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE, HOW WILL WE SEE THOSE ROLES BEGIN TO EVOLVE FURTHER? IT WILL BE A CONTINUATION OF WHAT WE HAVE SEEN OVER THE PAST YEAR. COVID-19 HAS FORCED THE ROYAL FAMILY TO TAKE TO ZOOM AND EMBRACE ZOOM. IT HAS CHANGED HOW THEY WORK. AS THE QUEEN APPROACHES THAT 95TH BIRTHDAY, NOW THAT SHE IS A WIDOW, THEY ARE GOING TO STEP UP AND SUPPORT HER. THEY HAVE ALWAYS SUPPORTED HER. THE PRINCE OF WALES FOR A LONG TIME HAS CARRIED OUT THE LION'S SHARE OF OVERSEAS TRAVEL. HE IS GOING TO BECOME THE HEAD OF THE COMMONWEALTH. WE ARE SEEING A GRADUAL HANDING OVER. THE QUEEN IS NOT GOING ANYWHERE. SHE IS GOING TO REIGN OVER US FOR MANY MORE YEARS. BUT SHE WILL DEPEND ON THOSE SHE CALLS HER SUBSTITUTES. YOU SAW THEM THERE TODAY. CERTAINLY, YOU MENTIONED THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE WHO ARE TAKING FULL-TIME ROYAL DUTIES. THE QUEEN IS REALLY GOING TO NEED THEIR SUPPORT, AND SHE HAS IT. ONE OF THE MORE SENSITIVE ISSUES ` IT HAS CERTAINLY BEEN A FACTOR OF INTEREST ` IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WILLIAM AND HARRY. WE SAW THEM WALKING TOGETHER. TOGETHER AND TALKING. WHAT DID YOU MAKE OF THAT TODAY? IT WAS A FOCAL POINT OF TODAY, BUT IT WAS PRINCE HARRY'S HOMECOMING. HE HASN'T BEEN HERE FOR A YEAR. THIS WAS THE DAY WHEN THE BROTHERS WERE GOING TO ` AND DID ` PUT THEIR DEFENCES ASIDE. THIS IS A FAMILY WITH REAL EMOTIONS AND FEELINGS, AND RIFTS ALL BEING PART OF IT. WE ALL HOPE THEY WILL MOVE ON, THAT THIS CAN BE HEALED. TO SEE THEM TOGETHER, I'M SURE IT BROUGHT BACK MEMORIES FOR THEM. IT WILL HAVE BEEN AN EMOTIONAL HOMECOMING FOR PRINCE HARRY, TO BE REUNITED WITH HIS FAMILY, ALBEIT UNDER DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES. BUT IT WAS LOVELY TO SEE THEM TALKING. I NOTICED PETER PHILLIPS. I KNOW THEY WERE WALKING AS A TRIO, BUT THE WAY HE JUST STOOD BACK, WHETHER THAT WAS TO DO WITH HIERARCHY OR TO ENABLE THE IMAGE OF THE TWO BROTHERS, I THINK IT WILL BE TOUCHING TO PEOPLE. HOW DO YOU SEE THAT RELATIONSHIP IN THE FUTURE? I THINK TODAY WE SAW THE START OF A COMING BACK TOGETHER. IT WAS A WONDERFUL MOMENT AT THE END OF THE SERVICE, AS ALL THE STATE CARS PULLED UP, AND THERE WAS A STRICT ORDER OF PRECEDENCE. AND THE PRINCE OF WALES LED THE WAY AND STARTED WALKING, AND EVERYONE ELSE WALKED. AT THAT MOMENT, IT CEASED TO BE A STATE OCCASION AND BECAME A FAMILY EVENT. I SUSPECT NOW, SUBJECT TO COVID-19 RULES, THEY, LIKE ANY OTHER FAMILY, ARE CATCHING UP, REMINISCING. TODAY WILL HAVE BEEN A UNIFYING DAY. WE HEARD ABOUT A MAN WHO WAS BORN INTO ONE ROYAL FAMILY AND HAS DEVOTED HIS LIFE TO ANOTHER. AND THERE THEY ALL WERE TODAY ON HIS BEHALF. YOU ARE BOTH DISTINGUISHED WRITERS AND COMMENTATORS IN THIS AREA. I WONDER WHAT YOU HAVE IN MIND FOR THE WAY YOU WILL DESCRIBE WHAT WENT ON TODAY, AND WHAT YOU THINK PEOPLE WILL TAKE AWAY FROM WHAT YOU HAVE SEEN TODAY. GIVE US AN INSIGHT ON YOUR THOUGHTS, AT THE CONCLUSION. I THINK THE INTENSELY PERSONAL NATURE OF THE SERVICE, SUMMING UP SUCH AN EXTRAORDINARY MAN. WE HAVE HEARD ABOUT ALL HIS ACHIEVEMENTS THIS WEEK. THIS WAS SOMEONE WHO WAS NOMINATED FOR A NOBEL PRIZE, AND YET THERE WAS NO REFERENCE TO HIS AWARDS, THE WORLD WILDLIFE FUND, NONE OF THAT IN THE SERVICE TODAY. IT DIDN'T NEED TO BE SAID, BECAUSE HE IS THIS COLOSSUS. AND MATCHING THAT, THIS INTENSELY PERSONAL SERVICE, IN CIRCUMSTANCES WE ALL UNDERSTAND. EVEN THE SOVEREIGN CAN'T BEND THE RULES. SHE IS THERE ON HER OWN, JUST LIKE ALL HIS SUBJECTS AT THIS TIME. WE ARE ALL SYMPATHETIC TOWARDS HER, PROUD OF HER, PROUD OF HIM AND FABULOUSLY PROUD OF THIS INSTITUTION ON A DAY LIKE TODAY. AND KATIE, YOUR THOUGHTS. THE DUKE FAMOUSLY DIDN'T LIKE A FUSS. BUT HE DESERVED IT. HE OFTEN DIDN'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT HIS LEGACY, BUT HE DOES LEAVE BEHIND A LEGACY. THIS WOULDN'T BE THE ROYAL FAMILY IT IS TODAY, THAT WE ARE ALL PROUD OF, HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, SO MAY HE REST IN PEACE. KATIE AND ROBERT, THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS TODAY. JUST A QUICK REMINDER FOR ALL OF YOU WATCHING AT HOME, AT 8.10 ON BBC2 WE WILL HAVE A PROGRAMME LOOKING BACK ON THE DAYS EVENTS AT WINDSOR. THE QUEEN AND HER CLOSE FAMILY ARE NOW BACK IN THE STATE APARTMENTS HERE AT WINDSOR CASTLE, NO DOUBT REFLECTING ON A DEEPLY MOVING SERVICE, A VERY DIGNIFIED AND SHARP AND STYLISH MILITARY PRECISION, WHICH SYMBOLISED ALL THAT WAS VITAL, ALL THAT WAS SALIENT IN THE LONG LIFE OF PRINCE PHILIP, THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH. HE NOW RESTS IN PEACE IN THE ROYAL VAULT BENEATH ST GEORGE'S CHAPEL. FROM WINDSOR, GOODBYE. CAPTIONS BY INGRID LAUDER, SHRUTIKA GUNANAYAGAM, JAMES BROWN AND FAITH HAMBLYN. CAPTIONS WERE MADE WITH THE SUPPORT OF NZ ON AIR.