Good morning and welcome to the Bullwark podcast. I'm Trelea Sykes. It is Friday, September

9, 2022, a day after the end of the second Elizabethan era.

The BBC is interrupting its normal programs to bring you an important announcement.

This is BBC News from London. Buckingham Palace has announced the death of her Majesty

Queen Elizabeth II. In a statement, the palace said the Queen died peacefully at Balmoral

this afternoon. The King and the Queen consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will

return to London tomorrow. BBC Television is broadcasting this special

program reporting the death of her Majesty the Queen.

The Queen and the Queen will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to Balmoral this evening.

Well, that's remarkable and I'm joined by my colleague Bill Crystalland this weekend's

Bullwark podcast. First of all, good morning Bill. Good morning, Charlie.

So here we are a bunch of Americans sitting around celebrating the life and reign of

the Queen of England. I mean, among the many remarkable things I want to touch on here,

the fact that you watched the American media yesterday and it was wall to wall coverage

of the death of a monarch that a monarchy that we had actually rebelled against some

time ago and apparently those are still the ties that bond.

Aren't they? I think it is a work of a, you know, you played that clip and I actually

had chills, you know, and my listen to it. But I've always discounted my own sort of

interest in and fondness for Britain and various institutions and trappings of, you know,

British history and society because I did spend the first four or five years of my life

there, not that I remember anything of that, but my father had an magazine there. My mother

was a historian primarily a great Britain. So I was like, okay, I'm unusual just because

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