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Coffee House Shots

How did the Queen change the world?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

Politics, Daily News, News

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Cindy Yu, James Forsyth and Fraser Nelson discuss the impression Queen Elizabeth II made during her 70 years as a head of state. 

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Hello and welcome to the Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots.

0:27.0

I'm Cindy you and I'm joined by Fraser Nelson and James O'Syth.

0:31.0

So Fraser, you've written a very interesting column in the telegraph this week

0:35.0

not looking at the Queen's domestic impact, but her impact across the world.

0:39.0

Tell us about what you found.

0:41.0

What was number of countries where the Queen is not head of state,

0:44.0

but of no less observed days of mourning.

0:46.0

India, for example, 1.4 billion people had a day of mourning

0:51.0

with all official events cancelled.

0:53.0

Now this is a country where Modi is quite often railing against the British Empire,

0:57.0

renaming roads, etc.

0:59.0

So it's not exactly nostalgic for the days of empire, but nonetheless,

1:03.0

held the day of mourning as did Lebanon, as did Brazil.

1:06.0

And we've been looking at the New York Times as well as the mean coverage of what's going on here,

1:11.0

but the American people in general are very different.

1:14.0

There was been minutes silence held at football matches.

1:17.0

The chief executive, Apple, was saying how the Queen embodied all of these virtues.

1:22.0

And we might have seen earlier on when the Queen's coffin was flown from Edinburgh to London.

1:27.0

There were 4.7 million people who watched that flight on flight tracker.

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