00:00¡Gracias!
00:30The harrowing days of national sorrow reach their peak.
00:40After lying in state, while 300,000 people filed silently past,
00:46the coffin of the king, surmounted by the imperial state crown, the orb and the scepter,
00:51is borne out of Westminster Hall.
00:54As the bells of Westminster Abbey peal their lament,
00:56it is placed on a gun carriage for the funeral procession through London.
01:06Attired in their heavy mourning, the queen, the queen mother and Princess Margaret enter their carriage
01:11and there begins the sad last journey of King George VI.
01:26Sixteen years ago, he walked behind this same gun carriage with his three brothers.
01:49The ceremonial in which he took part then is today for him.
01:55On foot behind the queen's carriage walk his two surviving brothers,
01:59his son-in-law and the Duke of Kempt, his nephew.
02:02When his father died, how many of us had any conception what the ensuing sixteen years would bring forth?
02:14The tumult and perils of another war were hidden in the dark future.
02:18The sacrifice in human lives symbolized by the cenotaph.
02:22The austerities and stresses of these post-war years were still undreamt of.
02:28While, above all, his own destiny as sovereign of this wide and scattered commonwealth of nations had yet to be revealed.
02:36Between 1936 and 1952, so much of history has been compressed
02:42that an age rather than two short reigns seems to have rolled away.
02:48The retinue of mourners come from all over the world.
02:52The president of France, Monsieur Oriol, beside him three kings of Denmark, of Greece and Sweden.
02:59Next, the presidents of Yugoslavia and Turkey, with the king of Iraq between them.
03:04These heads of state are but a few of the distinguished men and women who have come to pay him the last honours.
03:12As the procession winds through London, the solemnity of the occasion is matched by our thoughts.
03:26Our emotions, too, are stern.
03:29How could they fail to be?
03:31The funeral music, the atmosphere of sorrow, sympathy for the queen and her bereaved mother and sister,
03:37these touch the heart and harrow the thoughts.
03:40Royalty is no longer remote.
03:43Films and radio now bring kings and queens into our daily lives.
03:48We see and recognise their qualities.
03:51The public has never been in doubt about the qualities, courageous and faithful,
03:56of him who rides here on his last journey.
03:59This is the testimony of one witness to his courage.
04:03During these last months, the king walked with death, as if death were a companion, an acquaintance whom he recognised and did not fear.
04:17In the end, death came as a friend.
04:22And so, in due time, the coffin arrives at Paddington Station, where London bids farewell to a king.
04:35At Windsor, the arrival of the funeral train has been awaited in sombre expectancy.
04:48Windsor knows the royal family as no other town knows them.
04:53Windsor is their home.
04:54Here, at the end of their lives, our kings come home to be buried.
05:00As the cortege moves out of the station, all eyes turn on that lonely coffin, high and lifted up above its escort.
05:09Then, to the carriage which follows, to the queen, to the queen mother and to Princess Margaret, this must be the saddest of all their days.
05:25The procession moves on towards the home park, which it enters by the Cambridge gate.
05:31Thence, up the long walk in stately and solemn array, to the sovereign's entrance by the Henry IV gate.
05:48Now, it is almost the last scene.
05:52On a perfect English winter's day, with the royal standard flying at full mast, the body of King George VI enters the castle grounds, where he will rest with his fathers in St. George's Chapel.
06:09He was a good man, has been the ordinary man's simple tribute.
06:13Others, who have the privilege of knowing him personally, speak of his steadfast courage under suffering, his sense of humour, his conscientiousness, his Christianity.
06:27All this rings true.
06:43All this rings, I'm going to die.
06:44Let's go.
06:47Let's go.
07:02Let's go.
07:04Let's go.
07:06Come.
07:08Come.
07:08Let's go.
07:10Orders to surrounding troops mingle with the footsteps of the gun's crew
07:20as the cottage comes to a halt below St. George's Chapel.
07:40The Dean of Windsor with the Archbishops of Canterbury and York
08:08await the Royal Coffin at the head of the steps.
08:38Then, as the funeral service begins at Windsor, elsewhere in the kingdom, the busy ferment
08:51of life is hushed in a two-minute silence.
08:58Here, in Parliament Square, at the scene with which this sad film opened, the observance
09:27of the silent tribute is deeply impressive.
09:31And as his memory is revered by his people up and down the country and throughout the
09:38Empire, the picture of him which we cherish is of a man who did his kingly duty.
09:46For him truly, the path of duty was the road to glory.
09:51Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.
09:57I will be
10:05I will be
10:06I will be
10:06I will live
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