Jubilee Jubilation for a Troubled Monarchy
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🗓️ 3 June 2022
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But, as the nation thanks its queen for seven decades of service, there are questions about what the monarchy will look like after she's gone. NPR's Frank Langfitt takes a look at a royal family at a crossroads.
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| 0:00.0 | When you celebrate 70 years on the throne, you have to start with a parade. |
| 0:07.0 | Britain's four-day platinum jubilee for Queen Elizabeth kicked off on Thursday with a birthday parade. |
| 0:14.0 | 1400 soldiers decked out in their finest red tunics marched in precision drills for their queen. |
| 0:23.0 | After the parade came the 82 gun salute. |
| 0:30.0 | And really the only thing that can top an 82 gun salute is a 70 plane flyby. |
| 0:39.0 | Some of the Royal Air Force jets flew in formation to create the number 70 as a smiling Queen Elizabeth surrounded by most of her royal family, |
| 0:47.0 | looked on from her balcony at Buckingham Palace. |
| 0:54.0 | Friday, thousands crowded around St. Paul's Cathedral to catch a glimpse of the royal family as they arrived to attend services. |
| 1:01.0 | People wore the Union Jack in just about every form imaginable, and Middleton is from Wales. |
| 1:07.0 | So we've had dresses made as well for tomorrow. |
| 1:10.0 | We're a combination of the Welsh Dragon and the Union Jack. We've bought t-shirts, we've got earrings, we've bought socks. |
| 1:19.0 | The Royal family has had its ups and downs with its public over the last 70 years, but Maximilian Somerset says the fact that Queen Elizabeth has been on the throne for so long is good for the country. |
| 1:31.0 | I think they represent that consistency. |
| 1:34.0 | No matter what happens in the family, they pull together, they continue to represent consistency. |
| 1:40.0 | And in an ever changing world that we live in now, I think that that consistency is foundational for our society and we look to that. |
| 1:47.0 | While Britain celebrates 70 years of consistency, they are also uneasily looking towards a very near future without their Queen. |
| 1:56.0 | Her health has been declining. She even missed some Jubilee events on Friday. |
| 2:00.0 | Support for the monarchy has been falling. More and more young people like 21-year-old Emma McDonald would like to see the monarchy go away entirely. |
| 2:08.0 | I don't mind the Queen as a person or any of them individually, but I think as a concept as an institution I don't really agree with it. |
| 2:16.0 | Consider this, after enduring for centuries, will the British monarchy continue? And should it? From NPR, I'm Ari Shapiro. It's Friday, June 3rd. |
| 2:30.0 | It's consider this from NPR. The four-day celebration for Queen Elizabeth's platinum Jubilee has already been overstuffed with pageantry, tributes, and many, many renditions of God Save the Queen, the British National Anthem. |
| 2:51.0 | In 1977, people were singing a very different song of the same name, and it was no tribute. |
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