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Pod Save The King

Queen's message of hope on coronavirus

Pod Save The King

Reach Podcasts

News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

3.71K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

As the world remains in the grip of the coronavirus crisis, the Queen's message of hope and fortitude was broadcast to Britain and the Commonwealth.Echoing the wartime sentiment of Dame Vera Lynn and sharing her own experience and hopes, it was just the fifth time Her Majesty has addressed the nation outside her traditional Christmas messages.Pod Save The Queen host Ann Gripper is joined by Daily Mirror editor Russell Myers to reflect on a moving national moment, plus the engagements carried out virtually by Prince Charles, Camilla's phone calls to volunteers and William and Kate's virtual school visit.Mirror Online lifestyle editor Zoe Forsey has been taking a close look at the royals' home offices and shares the details we've spotted in their photos released during the lockdown.Join the conversation about the episode on Instagram and Twitter @podsave - and subscribe to the podcast to follow unfolding royal family news.Upcoming episodes: Interviews with the writers of The Windsors, and royal expert Robert Jobson answers your questions. 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

Podsave the Queen!

0:05.0

Aves of the Queen!

0:08.0

Hello and welcome back to Pods Save the Queen.

0:11.0

I'm your host Anne Gripper and I am still talking into a corner of my bedroom

0:17.1

while we are in this lockdown world. I'm joined by my friend and colleague, Daily Mirror

0:21.6

Royal editor Russell Myers once again nice to see

0:24.3

you Russell as we join over the zoom magic I was about to say nice to see you

0:30.0

you nice I can see you we can see each other all of this exciting technology. Let's start with

0:37.1

something happy. Happy anniversary to Charles and Camilla 15 years. It's very

0:42.1

exciting and they are recovered and out of isolation. So

0:46.6

recovered in Charles's case and Camilla not she didn't ever have symptoms

0:51.6

and tested negative it had to stay itself isolation but now they are able to

0:56.0

Celebrate together as best they can in these times and there's a lovely picture posted of them with the dogs to mark the occasion. So this week's episode will largely be an

1:07.2

update on what the Royals are up to during these coronavirus times because obviously this week we've been talking about it for a little while but this week was the Queen's big message to the nation.

1:19.4

So the excitement of future episodes of interviews with the writers of the Winsors and with

1:25.3

long-time royal reporter Robert Jobson where he answered all of your very very

1:29.7

many brilliant questions about exactly how the Royal Family works.

1:33.4

They will be coming up in the next couple of weeks

1:36.2

as well as more treats to look forward to.

1:38.3

So do subscribe, stay tuned, and if you're really bored at home

1:42.4

during all of this, then head on to iTunes and give us a lovely review because we would really appreciate it and would enjoy hearing what you make of the show but the big important piece of the week was the Queen's address to the nation on Sunday evening.

1:57.6

So the fifth time she's done it, there were three kind of major difficult times where she'd address the nation previously the first Gulf War

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