Queen Elizabeth II: Reaction and Tributes
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Remembering the UK’s longest-serving monarch.
Leaders around the world have paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II. BBC special correspondent, Jim Naughtie, who has chronicled her 70-year reign, joins Adam to discuss her legacy.
This edition of Newscast was made by Danny Wittenberg and Chris Flynn. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The assistant editors were Sam Bonham and Alison Gee. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio, which is a new broadcasting house in London. |
| 0:05.7 | Just after six-thirty on Thursday evening, this is how the BBC broke the news. |
| 0:14.0 | A few moments ago Buckingham Palace announced the death of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. |
| 0:20.6 | The palace has just issued this statement. |
| 0:24.7 | It says the Queen died peacefully at Ballmoral this afternoon. |
| 0:30.1 | The King and the Queen Consort will remain at Ballmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow. |
| 0:39.4 | Within the past few minutes Buckingham Palace has announced the death of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. |
| 0:48.4 | In a few minutes we'll be reflecting on that moment with the BBC's special correspondent Jim Nocti. |
| 0:55.1 | But this is how the BBC's Royal Correspondent Nicholas Wittill marked it. |
| 1:00.2 | For 70 years she's been the constant, unchanging presence in the background to our lives. |
| 1:05.8 | The head of the nation as she's sometimes been referred to above politics. |
| 1:10.8 | But with a shrewd interest in and a grasp of politics and of political figures. |
| 1:17.4 | So we now look back on and there will be so many tributes. |
| 1:21.6 | So many tributes now as people take this in as they come to terms with their own emotions. |
| 1:30.0 | And I'm quite sure there will be many people who are very emotional at this moment. |
| 1:36.0 | As they learn of this news, the death of the Queen. |
| 1:41.2 | But this nation and so many other nations will now pay tribute to this long life of service which has now ended. |
| 1:53.3 | Now in the British system the Crown passes instantly to the Queen's heir Charles, |
| 2:01.2 | who was straight away be known as King Charles III. |
| 2:05.2 | And he put out a statement from Buckingham Palace tonight and this is what it says. |
| 2:09.3 | The death of my beloved mother, her majesty the Queen, is the moment of the greatest sadness for me |
| 2:15.8 | and all members of my family. We mourn profoundly the passing of a cherished sovereign and a much loved mother. |
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