Welcome back to the AirPod. We've had a week off. We are feeling refreshed,

rejuvenated, the sun is out. Maggie, how are you doing? We're ready for anything right,

Almond? This is the sunny side up episode of the podcast. It's a good week. We've got

anniversary celebrations to talk about. The Queen is back at work. You've been on a very interesting

trip that you can't wait to ask you about later on. But yeah, it feels like business as usual.

It does, you're right. That's a good way to put it. It felt like we had some regular royal news

and announcements, a little bit of the world getting hopefully closer to be back to normal.

Yeah, exactly. I just took my mum for her second vaccination today, so that was my highlight.

Oh, that's wonderful. And it was things moving forward in the royal family this week. We saw,

of course, last Thursday or on April 22nd, the Royal Morning period come to an end. So we've

kind of had a flutter of engagements this week as the royals all assemble and get back to

their usual routine. Of course, starting with the Queen who returned to her pretty hectic life

of royal duties. With meetings and video calls starting this week, we saw her. In fact, I think

she was the first family member to sort of officially return to duty. She conducted virtual

audiences with ambassadors from Latvia in Cotte de Voie on April 27th. And she was then photographed

during that time on her sort of video call screen. I don't think they use zoom. We always say it

zoom, but I'm pretty sure people have no idea, do we? Ultra encrypted service going on.

But yeah, on Wednesday, she was... I saw someone packing into the Queen's Zoom account now.

Yeah, Wednesday, she was full throttle. She hosted a privy council meeting. She had a call with

the Prime Minister and she conducted video calls with two newly appointed bishops. And I think that

you know, look, when we talk about that sort of keep calm and carry on nature of the Queen and her

approach to her role, and I would say the way in which she conducts her life, this is really it

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