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If anyone living in Britain over the past week, they would tell you that it has felt very, very weird.

And it's been weird for the whole country.

And in a very, very tiny way, it's been weird for the whole country. And in a very, very tiny way,

it's been very weird for us starting this podcast, because I don't think any of us would have anticipated. We would have spent so much time in our first three weeks talking about on here,

but also not on here, the royal family and the queen and everything that has happened in the history of this country.

But we've realised that even for us, it has felt differently to maybe how we thought it would.

And we thought that what might be our last word on this for a while, because next week, politics will resume as normal,

and we'll be talking about all those things we expect to be talking about. But we thought that before the funeral, for our last word on this,

we would open up about how we have felt over this last week, what we've learned about monarchy

in Britain over the past week, but also open up to you, to hear from you about how you have felt.

And whether actually in this really momentous last seven days or so, an opportunity has

been missed for a wider conversation about monarchy, about politics and about the future of

this country.

We put a message out to you and we had hundreds of replies

actually on social media and you emailed us as well at newsagents at global.com and we are something

both really simple and very complicated. We said how has this week made you feel? Monarchic, anarchic,

Republican or unmoved? In other words, any of the above,

or maybe your own interpretation of what that meant, there is no agenda here. We're just trying to

get a sense away from the glossiness, if you like, of what you might be seeing in the coverage,

in the visuals, in the extraordinary sort of state panoply,

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