Queen back to work - and completes 68th year on throne

Pod Save The King

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3.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The Queen acceded to the throne 68 years ago today, aged just 25, after the death of her father, King George VI.This week she returned to work with the opening of a pumping station and a visit to an RAF base.William and Kate have had a busy week from the Bafta red carpet to Wales and table football, while Prince Charles has been introduced to TK Maxx, and faced more scrutiny of his travel, while the Sussexes remain in Canada.Daily Mirror royal editor Russell Myers (@rjmyers), who joined the Cambridges on their visit to Wales, joins Pod Save The Queen host Ann Gripper (@anngripper) to discuss the week's events. And lifestyle editor Zoe Forsey (@zoeforsey) looks back on how this day unfolded for the Queen 68 years ago, as she found out her father had died and the next phase of her own life was beginning.Join the conversation about the episode on Instagram and Twitter @podsave - and subscribe to the podcast to follow the unfolding royal family news. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	POD Save the Queen!
0:05.0	Hello and welcome back to POD Save the Queen.
0:08.0	It has been another busy week for the Royal Family.
0:12.0	Lots of engagements going on very much into the
0:15.4	swing of the new year. Even the Queen is back at work. So you know Christmas is now
0:20.5	officially over on the 6th of February.
0:23.5	So lots and lots to talk about.
0:25.1	So welcome back, Royal Editor Russell Myers.
0:28.2	Hello.
0:28.8	I'm your host, Anne Gripper.
0:30.6	While you have not been around Russell, I spoke to some lovely students from Goldsmiths University
0:35.0	They're doing a documentary about for the love of Royals I saw the picture actually
0:40.4	Yeah, so they were very lovely so it was nice to meet them and they asked some really good questions and made me think about things.
0:45.6	So it was fun to see them and I might see about getting them in sometime, you know, one week when you're busy and I can't get hold of you to have a chat and see what they
0:53.8	they had they've been to see one of the massive royal fans who's got a huge
0:57.8	amount of royal memorabilia and they was just like you know the house is just
1:01.3	stuff with it all of that all of that so
1:03.8	maybe we should have a day out sometime although I did end up in a pub last
1:07.8	night I saw this that I'm on social media So it still had its royal wedding bunting up.
1:15.0	Where's the pub? What's it called? The Lord Nelson. Very cool.
1:20.0	Yes, they still have the royal wedding bunting up. There was a little picture of Prince Charles and Diana
1:25.2	in little frames behind the bar.
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