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This Is Why

Mourning the Queen: “Why I came to Buckingham Palace”

This Is Why

Sky News

News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.0552 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Thousands of people have queued outside Buckingham Palace to pay their respects to the Queen. During the day after her death, the line of those wanting to lay flowers was sometimes more than half a mile long.

On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson hears why people decided to make the trip and what Her Majesty meant to them. Plus, he gets the thoughts of author and historian Anthony Seldon.

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The first thing you notice is just how quiet it is. There have been crowds on this scale many

1:09.7

times before, of course, and there are tens of thousands,

1:12.6

a constant stream faces headed towards Buckingham Palace to pay their respect.

1:18.6

But there isn't that wall of sound, you might expect, just a quiet hum as memories are shared.

1:24.6

Some are admittedly here for nothing more than a photo

1:27.6

But most seem to have been drawn here by a connection they felt to the queen

1:32.9

Our greatest, the greatest lady ever

1:38.4

She's amazing

1:40.0

Politicians come and go

1:41.5

But that woman there has stayed there and kept the country together through

1:44.6

through some very very very sort of scary time you know it's like your grandma dying it matters

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