103. The Queen & The Royal Family

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Luke Thompson

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🗓️ 4 June 2012

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Opinions, facts and gossip about The Royal Family, as The Queen celebrates her Diamond Jubilee this weekend. Listen to Luke have a conversation with English Robot 4000 about The Royal Family, including some surprising rumours about Prince Harry (lsten to find out more). CLICK HERE TO READ MORE AND TO WATCH A COUPLE OF VIDEOS http://teacherluke.wordpress.com/2012/06/04/the-queen-and-the-royal-family/ Thanks for listening, and remember your donations make this podcast possible. Luke

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0:00.0	You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information, visit teacher Luke.
0:07.0	Podomatic.
0:11.0	Hello ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of Luke's English
0:14.2	podcast now as you probably know already I live in London and yesterday was
0:19.6	quite a big day in London because that's right it was the Queen's diamond Jubilee that
0:26.9	means that the Queen has been the Queen for now 60 years she She's 86 years old, but exactly 60 years ago she was crowned. She took the throne and she became Queen Elizabeth II
0:49.6	yesterday was the let's say the 60th anniversary of her coronation
0:58.1	otherwise known as a Jubilee and jubilee is a kind of anniversary of in this case the coronation of our Queen and
1:06.2	60 years so that means it's a diamond jubilee let's see she first she had a I've actually lived through three of the Queen's jubilees now the first one being
1:11.4	the silver jubilee in 1977 but I was only a
1:15.1	tiny little baby at the time I'm trying to give you an idea of how old I am in case
1:19.9	you didn't already know so I was alive in 1977. In fact I was born in 1977 which I'm quite
1:27.3	proud about because it was also the year in which Star Wars was released so I'm quite pleased with that
1:34.6	because I'm a bit of a geek you know a bit of a Star Wars geek anyway
1:37.9	silver Jubilee in 1977 then she had a golden Jubilee in, when was it now, 2002, and then now of course 60 years, so that is the,
1:50.0	wow, that's the diamond Jubilee 60 years and only one other monarch in British history is
1:57.5	who has been on the throne for that long and that's Queen Victoria so it looks like
2:06.3	our Queen Elizabeth the second is going to kind of beat Victoria's record and become the longest serving monarch in British history. So what I thought I would do is in this
2:17.0	episode do a podcast all about the Queen and about the Royal Family because I regularly get questions from people from
2:25.8	students or from listeners asking me about what I think of the Royal Family,
2:30.4	what do I think of the Queen, what do most English people or British people feel about the monarchy?
2:36.0	And various other questions, including stuff like,
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