So obviously of course because that's what keeps happening with this episode

There is a small change of plan not to this episode itself, but to what happens next week

I'm not actually having a holiday next week after all if you're listening right to the end of last week's show you

will have heard that I am going to catch up with our good friend Zoe

Forcy on all things state side so looking forward to doing that. Hope to hear

you then hear you then hear you then you then. I don't know what we say. Be joined by you then.

But in the meantime, let's finally go on our tour around the nations.

Hold Save the King! on our tour around the nations.

Pods save the King! So I'd like to welcome to Pod Save the King, the Daily Records political editor Paul Hutchins and the daily record is the Mirror's Scottish sister paper.

Paul, really lovely to have you with us today.

Hey there, thanks for having me.

So we're recording this a couple of days after Charles and Camilla were up in

Scotland to receive the honors of the honors of Scotland which sort of completes the various coronation elements and he's fully in the job now and it's a job that actually essentially I guess started in in Scotland with, you know, it's

somewhere as it was quite fitting really that Balmoral was where the Queen passed

away and it was the tribute that Scotland was able to pay because of that was very special

last September really. Yes as you see the Queen passed away in Scotland she was very

fond of Balmoral she loved spending her summer holidays there with her family.

I think she spent increasing amount of time there in her latter years and I think most people in Scotland remember that the aftermath of

her passing away and the her body being transported down to Edinburgh, people paying their last respects and then being

taken down to London where we had the funeral. So the late Queen had an enormous affection for Scotland and I think that was reciprocated and it was a very emotional time at the tail end of last year.

And I think all of us, you know, who've lived with the Queen for so long, we'd always wondered a little

bit what it would be like when she did pass away and when it was Charles who became the king.

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