Queen Elizabeth II: A country in mourning
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The Times
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🗓️ 9 September 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The country now enters a time of national mourning for a nation to pay its respects to Her Majesty the Queen. Years of planning and centuries of tradition will be drawn upon as Queen Elizabeth II is laid to rest. So what do the next 10 days hold?
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| 0:00.0 | The Queen has died. She was 96. |
| 0:07.0 | The BBC is interrupting its normal programmes to bring you an important announcement. This |
| 0:14.4 | is BBC News from London. Buckingham Palace has announced the death of her Majesty Queen |
| 0:20.6 | Elizabeth II. In a statement, the Palace said the Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this |
| 0:27.8 | afternoon. The King and the Queen consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will |
| 0:34.4 | return to London tomorrow. |
| 1:01.4 | As the UK and the Commonwealth come to terms with the end of her 70 year reign, we now |
| 1:06.8 | enter a time most of us have never witnessed. You're listening to stories of our times |
| 1:12.5 | from the times on the Sunday times. I'm David Aronovich. Today, a country in mourning |
| 1:18.8 | the next 10 days. Everything that happens over the next 10 days |
| 1:31.4 | from the posting of the announcement of the Queen's death on the railings of Buckingham |
| 1:35.4 | Palace to her internment in the Royal Vault at Windsor has been planned for decades. |
| 1:42.9 | Each detail has been minutely scrutinised by generations of officials over the years. |
| 1:49.5 | But at the same time there's also an element of unpredictability. How will the British |
| 1:55.0 | people respond? How many of them will want to be part of the mourning? And how in turn |
| 2:00.7 | will the Royal Family react? This as far as it can be known is what will happen. |
| 2:07.5 | My name is Valentine Lo and I am the role correspondent for the times. Valentine, you've covered |
| 2:13.3 | the Royal Family for years. The Queen has been the Queen my entire life. What does her passing |
| 2:19.8 | mean to you? I think it's very hard to put it into words. She's all we've known. All |
| 2:26.4 | my life, all our life. She has symbolised the country. It's an unspoken thing and it's |
| 2:33.1 | part of who we are. And I think there'll be a sort of a sense of loss, which is different |
| 2:39.4 | from a sense of grief. You'll feel that somehow the country's changed, that somehow we've |
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