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dot com. Hello, welcome to the rest is history and Dominic this is I mean a properly historic moment isn't it we are recording this the day after the death of

Queen Elizabeth the second I think we're well I'm 54 I'm getting old I'm moving on but the Queen was an absolute constant throughout my entire life and

I would you know I'm not surprised at the sense sense of improvement I felt because I knew that I would I knew that I would be surprised at how I felt and so in a sense I'm not surprised at how surprised how I felt if you see what I mean I know exactly what I mean. Hello everybody. It's a very sad moment for us in

Britain, for people who love history, who are interested in history because of course a link with history.

In other circumstances we would have been recording this morning about the life, the early life of Winston Churchill,

who was of course the Queen's first Prime Minister born in 1874 and her last Prime Minister,

who she met of course two days before she died, was Liz Truss who was born in 1975 almost 101 years later. And that sort of, that extraordinary fact that

extraordinary fact yeah that longevity that sweep I mean you're talking you know the

Queen in a way is and is a link with the Victorian past isn't she because so many of the people she she knew when she was young were Victorians. And I think that that is another

dimension of how of the way that people are feeling moved, perhaps even if they're not Royalists,

is that the Queen is part of our personal lives because she's been a kind of

background presence on the television, her Jubileeilise, all that kind of thing.

But also she serves the country and perhaps the world as well as a kind of living link to earlier

ages and perhaps specifically to the Second World War, to the victory in the Second World War, and she really is the kind of the last great figure from that age.

Well that's why when COVID struck Tom and loads of our British

says we'll remember this and the Queen gave a national TV address, you know we will

meet again. A referencing Vera Lynn's wartime hit.

And of course it coincided, didn't it,

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