King Charles is "stepping into his late mother's shoes" as he marks an "extremely personal" historic trip to Canada, it has been claimed.The monarch and Queen Camilla have begun their two-day trip to Ottawa with a state opening of Canadian Parliament, welcomed warmly by Prime Minister Mark Carney.FULL STORY HERE.
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00:00Your viewers can see Mark Carney sitting right there. Now, this is different because, of course, in the Westminster Parliament, when we have a state opening, the Prime Minister is at the bar of the House of Lords, well back from the throne.
00:13Here, the Canadian Prime Minister is sitting right next to His Majesty and no doubt will be listening very intently to the speech that His Majesty delivers to see exactly every word that has been nuanced through in preparation.
00:26I understand that Prime Minister Carney worked on the speech himself and there was a team of people working on it, so that was information the Canadian authorities released.
00:40So we know this is about to come from the Canadian government and it will be very interesting to see what His Majesty says in a speech that is apparently going to last about 25 minutes.
00:51I have to say, Queen Camille looks very chic in that hat and that sort of wonderful kind of indigo-coloured dress and the pearls. She looks wonderful.
01:02Well, I wonder whether she's actually wearing the maple leaf brooch because King George VI gave the late Queen Mother a diamond on platinum maple leaf brooch in 1939, which was then worn by the Queen Mother and then by Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and has now been inherited by Queen Camilla.
01:24So I wouldn't be surprised if she's wearing that, although she may have been wearing that yesterday, so she may be wearing something different.
01:32OK, well, let's bring in another guest now, Hoving interview. It's the Raw Report at the Daily Express, Pandora Forsyth.
01:38Pandora, you join us at a wonderful moment, a sort of wonderful, simple folk music being played as Parliament is being gathered and ushered through.
01:49His and her majesty there waiting. Round of applause there from Mark Carney, the sitting premier. It's a beautiful moment.
01:56Yeah, it's so significant as well. I think this very much goes to show that the King is not going to stop working any time soon.
02:05This is a very quick trip for him across to Canada, but extremely significant, given everything that's happening on the political spectrum at the moment.
02:16And I think it just goes to show soft power at play.
02:20We don't usually see the royal family, you know, be so close with politicians and actually see them in the mix of it.
02:28We see them, you know, representing various different diplomats when they come over for state events, but we don't really see them at the heart of it, of course.
02:37We see it within our own houses of Parliament. And of course, there's been a few changes.
02:41We might have seen that a bit more regularly than we would have hoped over the past few years.
02:45But to see this in Canada is quite something. This is the third time this has happened.
02:50And the King, of course, is stepping into his late mother's shoes.
02:54This will be extremely personal for him, and I'm sure it won't go amiss for him within his brain.
02:59Actually, what is happening, even in the throne that he's sitting on, was commissioned by his late mother from the trees in Windsor's Great Park.
03:12So everything has got significance in this from a personal perspective for him, but obviously his role as the King.
03:20And let's quickly bring back in now Sir Michael Ellis, former Attorney General, of course, yourself, Sir Michael.
03:28And here's the King just meeting the, well, that's the Canadian top brass of the legal system, I'm assuming there.
03:34It is. And you can see, in fact, behind the military officers, you'll have the chief of the Canadian defence staff there
03:40and the chief of the naval staff, air staff and general staff.
03:45And he's now meeting the principal figures of the Senate.
03:50The Canadian Senate actually has become a very important revising chamber in the Canadian system.
03:57It follows closely and analyses deeply the bills that are passed by the Canadian House of Commons.
04:04And it's become a very important place in Canada for indigenous representation.
04:11And I think his majesty is therefore being introduced to a number of people who are guests there today.
04:17And Pandora, let's bring you back in at that point.
04:21It's just wonderful to see the Commonwealth being greeted with such open arms.
04:27I mean, how many times we hear about a country wants to leave the Commonwealth,
04:30who wants to have a referendum to get rid of the stain of the British Empire?
04:34You know, we hear so much negativity about the legacy of that.
04:38And isn't it wonderful to have a new prime minister invite the king and ostensibly to defend the realm?
04:45It's beautiful.
04:46Yeah, you're quite right.
04:47It is beautiful.
04:48And what an honour as well for the king, who gratefully received this invitation.
04:53Of course, it was an invite that he could have in the current circumstances turned down, but he didn't.
04:58That's how much it means to him to go across there and for the queen as well.
05:02This is a very proud moment for the king.
05:05And I think it just goes to show that these relationships are so special for us, actually, as Britain.
05:13It's very special to see this on this kind of stage.
05:16And, of course, to display the Commonwealth, as you said, in such positive light.