The Queen's Platinum Jubilee: From our royal correspondents
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The Times
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🗓️ 1 June 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
As the country prepares for a bank holiday weekend which will see many celebrate the Queen's record-breaking platinum jubilee, The Times and The Sunday Times' royal watchers chat about the monarch, and how her jubilee celebrations have changed over the years.
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Guests:
- Roya Nikkhah, Royal Editor, The Sunday Times.
- Valentine Low, Royal Correspondent, The Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Clips: BBC, Sky News, Thames News, Parliament TV.
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| 0:00.0 | This week amid much pomp and pageantry and a four-day weekend, the United Kingdom will |
| 0:13.2 | mark a moment of history, the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. Beacons will be lit across the country |
| 0:20.6 | and Commonwealth. Thousands of street parties will be held and stars and celebrities will |
| 0:25.6 | take part in a glittering concert at Buckingham Palace, as we mark the Queen's 70 years |
| 0:32.1 | on the throne, the longest reign of any British monarch and one of the longest in the history |
| 0:38.6 | of the world. But how much do we really know about the Queen? We ask the people who report |
| 0:45.0 | on her day in, day out. |
| 0:50.6 | Full listening to stories of our times from the times and the Sunday times, I'm Manvin |
| 0:55.2 | Rana. Today, the Queen's Platinum Jubilee from our Royal Correspondence. |
| 1:11.8 | In the run-up to the Jubilee, I sat down to record a special Times Plus event with the |
| 1:17.3 | authorities on all things Royal from the times and the Sunday times, Valentine Lowe and |
| 1:22.5 | Roya Nica. Today, we're bringing you the highlights of our conversation and if you're |
| 1:27.6 | a Times subscriber, you can still access the whole event online. I began by asking them, |
| 1:34.3 | what drew them to the role of Royal Correspondent? |
| 1:37.8 | I had to really be persuaded when I was on another publication, I was an arts correspondent |
| 1:42.8 | and my predecessor who covered the role brief was about to leave and go into a different |
| 1:48.4 | field entirely. And he said, you know, I think you should throw a hat into the ring for |
| 1:53.3 | the job. It's quite a nice proof, this is 2010. Quite a gentle brief, I think really |
| 1:58.3 | much has happened for a while. You get to go on some nice overseas tours and I really |
| 2:02.7 | have to say I was very skeptical and so I said, I don't really have any interest in |
| 2:06.5 | the roles at all, I don't really think so. And I think my editor at the time thought |
| 2:10.2 | I was of a similar age to the younger royals and might it be good to have me sort of covering |
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