Elizabeth the Good

Chopper's Politics

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🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Just like Westminster Hall which, this week especially, encompasses politics, history and the monarchy, so too does this episode of Chopper’s Politics.

Historian Andrew Roberts joins Christopher Hope to talk about potential pitfalls facing Charles III, what the new monarch can learn from history, and why he's in favour of 'Elizabeth the Good' as a moniker for Queen Elizabeth II.

The Telegraph's own Charles Moore on how be thinks we're seeing the British constitution working before our eyes, and if the Royal Yacht Elizabeth could be a fitting tribute.

Plus Telegraph columnist Simon Heffer on the late monarch's audiences with their Prime Minister, and if you can trust Netflix's The Crown to tell you who the late Queen got on with best (clue: Simon thinks not...).

Charles III is showing how well the baton passes, by Charles Moore|

How Queen Elizabeth proved a trusted confidante to all her prime ministers, by Simon Heffer|

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0:00.0	Coming up on Chopper's politics.
0:04.0	Yes, she was faithful to lots of things and faithful to her people and all of that.
0:09.0	But actually I think that I'd prefer to go back to the kind of medieval way of doing this. I would call her Elizabeth for good because that says everything.
0:19.0	Hello and welcome to choppers politics. I'm Christopher Hope, the Telegraph's Associate Editor for Politics.
0:26.0	The Palace of Westminster is normally my workplace with the hustle and bustle of a busy parliament
0:30.9	building. Not now, not this week. The arrival of the late queen
0:36.2	means that the Palace of Westminster feels like, well, a palace again. Perhaps
0:41.3	it should be called the People's Palace this week.
0:44.0	I was in Westminster Hall on Thursday morning and it was a privilege to be able to see, well, people paying
0:49.9	their respects to the coffin of the late Queen Elizabeth. Now just like Westminster Hall
0:55.6	which encompasses politics history and the monarchy so too does this episode of
1:00.8	choppers politics.
1:02.6	Later I'll be talking to Simon Heffer,
1:04.9	the telegraph columnist about the late Queen's relationship
1:07.8	with the 15 Prime Ministers who served her.
1:10.4	From Winston Churchill to Liz Truss, born 101 years apart.
1:15.0	And we'll be hearing from former Telegraph editor and now columnist Charles Moore
1:20.0	on why the handover of the crown has gone so smoothly. But first we talk a lot
1:25.7	on choppers politics about what politicians can learn from the past. So I thought
1:30.5	why not call up eminent historian Andrew Roberts to ask what he thought the new monarch could learn from history and the pitfalls that might face him.
1:41.0	Andrew Roberts, welcome to Chophos politics, great to have you on.
1:43.6	Thank you very much indeed. It's a great honor to be on the show.
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