See the royal family together on Buckingham Palace balcony
I WAS THERE ON THE DAY. >> MAYBE THEIR GRANDCHILDREN WILL BE WITNESSING THE CORONATION OF PRINCE WILLIAM OR — THERE WE GO. >> HERE THEY COME. KING CHARLES AND QUEEN CAMILLA KING CHARLES AND QUEEN CAMILLA ON THE BALCONY, AND THE CROWD ROARS. >> KING CHARLES AND QUEEN CAMILLA SURROUNDED BY THE PAGES WHO HELPED THEM TODAY, AND OF COURSE PRINCE GEORGE THE ELDEST GRANDSON, ONE OF THOSE PAGES, AND NOW ANOTHER DOOR OPENS AND WE SEE MORE MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY FILL OUT THAT BALCONY AND FAMILY FILL OUT THAT BALCONY AND THE MOMENT THAT QUITE LITERALLY
THE WORLD HAS BEEN WAITING FOR. >> QUITE A BROAD PRESENCE OF ROYALS THERE AS YOU CAN SEE, EDWARD, THE KING’S BROTHER IS THERE ON THE FAR LEFT. ANNE AS WELL. >> EVERY TIME SOMEONE NEW FILES OUT, THE CROWD ROARS, AND THIS IS WHERE WE REALLY DEPEND ON OUR ROYAL SPOTTERS, DAISY TO LET US KNOW WHO WE SEE WHEN WE TAKE THAT WIDER SHOT. IMAGINE THE CONVERSATION THAT’S GOING ON BETWEEN THESE TWO. >> AND WE CAN ALREADY SEE LITTLE LOUIS IS PLAYING UP TO THE CROWD. YOU CAN SEE HIM ON THE LEFT NEXT TO HIS SISTER
CHARLOTTE, AS WILFORD WAS SAYING, AS THEY WERE, THE EDINBURGHS ON THE FAR LEFT. >> AGAIN, QUITE A DISTANT COUSIN OF THE KING’S NOW. >> BUT THEY ARE STICKING TO
>> I’M GUESSING SHE’S RATHER SOGGY, DRYING OFF. >> BUT OF COURSE TO STATE THE OBVIOUS NO ANDREW, NO HARRY, NO BEATRICE. >> SO THIS IS THE VISION OF THE SLIMMED DOWN MONARCHY THAT HAS BEEN SO TALKED ABOUT IN THESE LAST FEW DAYS, SLIMMED DOWN CERTAINLY BY VIRTUE OF THE QUEEN’S PASSING BUT THEN ALSO HARRY DEPARTING, PRINCE ANDREW BEING ESSENTIALLY FORCED OUT FROM BEING A WORKING ROYAL, AND SO THIS IS THE IMAGE OF THE FUTURE, AND WE JUST SAW THE PRINCESS ROYAL. >> STILL IN HER BLUES AND ROYALS UNIFORM AND THE THISTLE ELEMENTS TO THAT UNIFORM
THAT SHE’S WEARING. THE RAIN IS STILL VERY HEAVY, BUT THE CROWDS ARE — THE NOISE IS VERY, VERY LOUD HERE. THERE’S CHARLOTTE IN HER ALEXANDER McQUEEN DRESS AND LOUIS. >> LOUIS, THAT’S THE NEW ROYAL WAVE. >> AND HERE COME THE HELICOPTERS OF THE FLY PASS. >> THE REDUCED FLY PASS. >> THE HARD AND FAST RULE, THE GET OUT OF JAIL FREE CLAUSE THAT THE KING CAN USE IF ONLY WORKING ROYALS ARE ATTENDING THIS. AT THE SAME TIME, HE IS TRYING TO HANDLE A PR AND TALK ABOUT A SLIMMED DOWN ROYAL FAMILY. SO IF YOU START
TO ADD MEMBERS THAT AREN’T DOING WORK FOR THE FAMILY, IT JUST CHANGES THAT DEBATE, AS MUCH AS WE WOULD HAVE ALL LIKED TO HAVE SEEN HARRY UP THERE. >> THERE’S SOME KIND OF FLY PASS THAT’S ABOUT TO UNFOLD. THE RAIN IS NOW OFFICIALLY A POURING RAIN. >> AND THE ROYALS ARE GAMELY ON >> AND THE ROYALS ARE GAMELY ON THE BALCONY, UNCLEAR IF THEY HAVE MUCH COVER UP THERE. >> SO WE HAVE HELICOPTERS AND THE RED ARROWS, WHICH ARE THE ACROBATIC PLANES. THOSE ARE THE AIRCRAFT COMING OVER. WE’RE STARTING TO SEE. >> JUST BEHIND US.
>> HERE THEY COME. >> THE ORIGINAL INTENTION WAS FOR 68 AIRCRAFT AND FOR THE FLY PASS TO TAKE SIX MINUTES. NOT SURE HOW MUCH THE REDUCED FLY PASS WILL BE GOING OVERAHEAD FLY PASS WILL BE GOING OVERAHEAD >> AND THEY’RE OVERHEAD AS WE SPEAK. >> THE CROWD LOVES THE WAVE, AND >> THE CROWD LOVES THE WAVE, AND WE’VE GOT OUR ROYAL FLYOVER, PERHAPS NOT THE ONE WITH THE FIGHTER JETS THAT SOME HAD HOPED FOR, BUT WE GOT THERE NONETHELESS. >> WE GOT A COUPLE OF QUITE LOUD HELICOPTERS, NOT ENOUGH FOR HELICOPTERS, NOT ENOUGH FOR LOUIS
TO BLOCK HIS EARS THIS TIME ALAS. HERE COMES, I THINK THE RED ARROWS TO FINISH THINGS OFF. >> WE’RE HEARING SPONTANEOUS CHANTS OF GOD SAVE THE KING IN CHANTS OF GOD SAVE THE KING IN THE CROWD. SPIRITS ARE HIGH. >> AND THAT WAS COOL. >> AND THAT WAS COOL. >> THAT WAS WORTH THE WAIT. >> THE RED ARROWS, GETS A SMILE FROM KING CHARLES AND QUEEN CAMILLA, WHAT A MOMENT. THAT MILITARY FLYOVER CAPPING OFF AN EXTRAORDINARY DAY HERE IN LONDON. KING CHARLES IS CORONATED AS IS QUEEN CAMILLA AND NOW MEMBERS OF THE WORKING ROYAL FAMILY
ON THE BALCONY AND WE HEAR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM. ANTHEM. LET’S LISTEN. ♪ ♪ MAUZ MUSE ♪ >> CHARLES WAS 4 YEARS OLD THE >> CHARLES WAS 4 YEARS OLD THE LAST TIME HE STOOD ON THAT BALCONY ON KOR THAGSCORONATION D HE WAITED 70 LONG YEARS FOR THAT MOMENT. >> AND HE LOOKED — THERE HE IS >> AND HE LOOKED — THERE HE IS AS A LITTLE BOY, AND OF COURSE HIS MOTHER WEARING THE CROWN THERE. HE OF COURSE KNOWS THAT HIS REIGN CAN’T POSSIBLY BE ANYWHERE AS LONG AS HIS MOTHER’S, AND HE’S TALKED IN PRIVATE
AND OCCASIONALLY PUBLICLY ABOUT THAT FEELING THAT HE WANTS TO ACHIEVE AS MUCH AS HE CAN IN WHAT WILL BE A RELATIVELY SHORT REIGN. HE’S THE OLDEST NEWLY CROWNED KING EVER. >> I ALSO THINK HE’LL BE REFLECTING ON HOW RELATIVELY WELL THE FIRST EIGHT MONTHS OF HIS REIGN — THAT WAS A UNIVERSALLY POSITIVE APPEARANCE ON THE BALCONY, AS IT WAS DISCUSSED EARLIER, HAD HE BECOME KING IN THE LATE ’90s OR EARLY 2000s, I DON’T THINK IT WOULD HAVE BEEN LIKE THAT. I THINK WHAT IS FAIR TO SAY IS KING CHARLES WAS IMMEDIATELY MORE POPULAR THAN PRINCE
CHARLES. FOR THE REST OF HIS REIGN IT WILL BE DELIVERING ON HIS SERVICE. I THINK HE’LL BE HELD TO ACCOUNT IN A WAY THAT PERHAPS THE QUEEN WAS NOT, BUT IT’S GONE WELL SO FAR. >> I WANT TO TURN TO TIM BOUVIER WHO’S WITH US. IN A WAY ENSURING THE SURF VIEFL OF THE SURVIVAL OF THE MONARCHY IS PERHAPS HIS PRIMARY ROLE, MAKING SURE IT CONTINUES TO BE A HEALTHY PART OF BRITISH SOCIETY HAS TO BE AT THE TOP OF HIS AGENDA. >> I THINK HE WOULD CONSIDER HIS PRIMARY ROLE TO BE TO SERVE THE
NATION AND THE COMMONWEALTH, BUT CERTAINLY AS FAR AS HIS SERVICE GOES TO THE FAMILY AND THE INSTITUTION, THE SURVIVAL OF THE MONARCHY IS CERTAINLY A SECONDARY PRIORITY TO HIM. IN THE 17th CENTURY WE DIDN’T HAVE A MONARCHY AND THAT DIDN’T GO VERY WELL. THAT’S ONE OF THE REASONS WHY MOST OF THE CROWN JEWELS YOU’RE SEEING ARE NOT NEARLY AS OLD AS THE CORONATION CEREMONY ITSELF BECAUSE THEY WERE MELTED DOWN. AND THE FEELING HAS DEFINITELY GROWN IN THE 21st CENTURY, BUT I THINK HE WILL SHOW THAT HE’S GOT GREAT SUPPORT, BY THE QUEEN CONSORT AND THE
PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES. I THINK THAT HE HAS A VERY, VERY FAIR CHANCE OF SEEING THE MONARCHY PASSED DOWN TO THE NEXT GENERATION AS HEALTHILY AS HE TOOK IT ON. >> YES, PART OF THE VAST RESPONSIBILITIES THAT HE HAS NOW AS KING, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I WANT TO GO TO SIMON LEWIS, FORMER COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR FOR QUEEN ELIZABETH, AND YOU HAVE HAD IN THAT POSITION AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET TO KNOW CHARLES A BIT. I WONDER WHAT YOU WERE THINKING AS YOU SAW HIM ON THE BALCONY ADORNED IN HIS ROYAL ROBES AND CROWN UPON HIS
HEAD, AND WELL, I GUESS WE’RE GETTING AN ENCORE SO HOLD THAT THOUGHT. LET’S GO BACK TO THE BALCONY BECAUSE KING CHARLES AND QUEEN CAMILLA HAVE COME FOR A SECOND LOOK AT THIS CROWD. >> I THINK HE OBVIOUSLY MUST BE TREMENDOUSLY RELIEVED THIS HAS GONE SO WELL, BUT I THINK HE LOOKED A LITTLE PENSIVE. HE’S GOT NOW — HE’S KING, AND THIS COUNTRY’S GOING THROUGH A CHALLENGING TIME, AND I THINK HIS INBOX IS GOING TO HAVE SOME QUITE BIG ISSUES IN IT IN TERMS OF THINGS LIKE THE COMMONWEALTH, THE FUTURE OF THE COMMONWEALTH, HOW THE MONARCHY
CAN REENGAGE WITH YOUNGER PEOPLE, THE WHOLE QUESTION OF WHAT THE FUTURE OF THE MONARCHY LOOKS LIKE. HE’S FULLY EQUIPPED TO DEAL WITH ALL THOSE ISSUES, BUT THERE IS A BURDEN TO BEING THE SOVEREIGN, AND HE’S VERY WELL-PREPARED FOR IT. AND THIS HAS BEEN A TREMENDOUS DAY, A FANTASTIC DAY, BUT NOW IN A SENSE THE HARD WORK BEGINS, AND I THINK THE MESSAGE ABOUT THE WORKING FAMILY AROUND HIM ON THE BALCONY WAS EXACTLY THE RIGHT ONE BECAUSE IT CAN’T BE JUST THE BURDEN OF SOVEREIGN.
