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00:02Windsor Castle in Berkshire is one of the most iconic rural residences in the country and tonight
00:08is the somewhat rainy setting for a special edition of the antiques Roadshow building began
00:14in around 1070 by William the Conqueror Windsor is one of the oldest and largest continually
00:20inhabited castles in the world it's been home to some 40 monarchs and of course home to Queen
00:26Elizabeth the second Elizabeth developed a lifelong bond with the castle she spent much of her
00:34childhood here and in later years it became a place of duty a private retreat and ultimately
00:40her final resting place tonight we're celebrating the life and legacy of Queen Elizabeth the second
00:48in what would have been her centenary year we'll look back on the life of the Queen decade by decade
00:56from her childhood to the pageantry of her coronation and her lifetime of service
01:06throughout the episode we'll get a rare opportunity to see items intimately connected to Queen Elizabeth
01:13the second we've been given special access to a selection of Queen Elizabeth's clothes now part
01:19of the Royal Collection and on display at the King's Gallery at Buckingham Palace in a special exhibition
01:24it's completely encrusted on every single surface of course it's Hartman's great masterpiece we also
01:34asked you to contact us if you had a treasured memento with a link to Queen Elizabeth the second it
01:40has to
01:40be one of the most reproduced portraits of all time and it has your mother's shoulders on it it's phenomenal
01:46really good we'll look at a selection of the more quirky and surprising items under the tail there's
01:54a little bottom draw oh literally literally a bottom draw and at the Guildhall in London our experts will
02:01be looking at some of the most moving and memorable pieces I did ask him once I said what was
02:07the Queen
02:07like as a sitter and he said terrible because she just talked welcome to a special antiques roadshow
02:16celebrating the life of Queen Elizabeth the second Elizabeth was born on the 21st of April 1926 to Prince
02:30Albert Duke of York and Lady Elizabeth Bowes lion as with many royals the young princess and her clothing
02:38soon became a topic of national fascination and at Windsor Castle in the magnificent grand reception room
02:45I'm meeting curator Caroline de Guito to see two charming pieces from Princess Elizabeth's childhood Caroline you
02:53brought along these two beautiful items of clothing well this is just the beginning of a very long life of
02:59her
02:59majesty the Queen and a long relationship with British fashion tell me about this beautiful little
03:05dress it's very charming isn't it well this was worn by Princess Elizabeth as she was then when she was
03:11one
03:11year old and we see it captured in a very charming photograph of her and it was made by a
03:17firm called
03:18Smith & Co who were based on Sloan Street in London and they supplied lots of childhood clothing to Queen
03:24Elizabeth for her daughter now when I think about what my kids were dressing when they were one was
03:29nothing as exquisite as this I mean what is it made of it's made of cotton lawn very fine cotton
03:35and as
03:36you can see it's got this beautiful detail around the waist and originally that was threaded with a silk
03:41ribbon unfortunately that has been lost and all this lovely trimming these little flounces of pleats which
03:47are repeated around the sleeves now to an unroyal eye this looks like a dress for very special occasions
03:54would it have been or was this something that the baby Elizabeth would have worn quite often quite
03:59often but this is so pristine yes everything was so carefully looked after cleaned preserved pressed
04:06kept very beautifully the little ballet shoes these are charming as well yes those are really special
04:14princess Elizabeth and her sister princess Margaret had dance lessons ballet lessons which were given
04:19by a lady called madame vacani but these are quite special ballet shoes because they're made by H&M rain
04:26a firm that supplied the Queen for many decades of her life with beautiful couture shoes they have
04:32been worn you can see wear and tear so princess Elizabeth was how old when she wore these just probably
04:39around five something like that it's a lovely insight into on this centenary year of her match the Queen
04:48Elizabeth of her early childhood they're very charming not they Elizabeth enjoyed a happy childhood but her
04:57life was to change dramatically in the 1930s she was just 10 years old when her uncle Edward VIII abdicated
05:06in
05:061936 making her father King and herself first in line to the throne in preparation for her future role she
05:15began lessons in constitutional history and law but she was also able to enjoy the kind of childhood hobbies
05:22open to everyone and at the guild hall in London Hillary came at a group of girl guides together with
05:28archivist Hannah Jenkinson to find out about their royal compatriots this is taking us back to Princess
05:35Elizabeth aged 11 because we've got a wonderful archive here of letters and photographs and there
05:45was something very important that Princess Elizabeth's mother the Queen Mother Queen Elizabeth wanted to
05:51happen what was it the Queen Mother had a conversation with chief guide Olave Baden Powell and wondered if it
05:58might be possible for Princess Elizabeth and her sister Princess Margaret to join a guide company and and that
06:04seems extraordinary that they they actually were able to have a sort of normal girls experience you
06:11don't expect that do you and what was set up then so it all came about very quickly and one
06:17of the
06:17division commissioners identified and invited a very capable and experienced individual to be captain of
06:25the first Buckingham Palace company and that who was she that individual was Violet Singe and we have this is
06:30this is
06:31she looks like a good sport doesn't she she does I bet there was a lot of fun going on
06:36there she does she brought a lot of
06:38experience and she had a great sense of adventure so the girls got to experience all the girl guiding
06:42activities you would expect I can see is this the flag for for their particular it's the first Buckingham Palace
06:49company flag yes fantastic wonderful to have that and where did they meet did they actually meet in
06:57Buckingham Palace itself they met in the grounds so in the summer house which was the perfect location
07:02because then the outdoors was easily accessible to them to go on their treks and hikes around the
07:08palace grounds and how many actually in Princess Elizabeth's guide group when it was first registered
07:14there were 13 guides 13 which is quite a lot actually so where did they come from various
07:20girls were invited so there were friends there were members of her family and also some of the children
07:26from the staff who worked at the palace behind you is a uniform whose is that this is Princess
07:32Margaret's guide uniform and she would have worn this between 1942 and 1946 and covered in badges now it
07:41is at this point that I have to admit that I was not a girl guide so the badges are
07:46in in sort
07:47of you have to form sets do they at this time you could work towards a collective badge and we
07:53can see
07:53that on Princess Margaret's arm it's the little house emblem and that would have included things
07:57like child nurse and cook it's this though which which I just love this is a letter written by Princess
08:05Elizabeth and sent to the chief guide but sent in a very particular way we can see Princess Elizabeth
08:12here writing and what's going on we jump forward to 1943 here and Princess Elizabeth and many other
08:20guides were sending letters of good wishes and thoughts to each other by pigeon post and so here
08:28Princess Margaret is holding the cage which contains the carrier pigeon this would have been tied to its
08:36leg off it went amazing it is yes thank you so much for bringing in this extraordinary collection it's
08:42wonderful thank you thank you
08:50girl guides I never made past the brownies I'm afraid look this is the famous Waterloo Chamber at Windsor Castle
09:00it is
09:02magnificent celebrating the defeat of the French at the Battle of Waterloo and it's lined with portraits
09:07by Sir Thomas Lawrence of all those who came together to defeat Napoleon plus the members of the restored
09:13French monarchy I mean it is just incredible but there's more to this magnificent room than meets the
09:20eye because a few years ago during restoration work something was found that gives us a little insight
09:26into the life of Queen Elizabeth in the 1940s these costumes from the royal dressing up box offer another
09:34clue and Caroline has joined me once more to reveal all during the Second World War these amazing
09:42portraits were removed for safekeeping and in 1941 two princesses Elizabeth and Margaret decided to stage
09:50some pantomimes in here and they needed decoration I mean there were just blank spaces behind the paintings
09:56and so a young art student called Claude Washam came to the rescue and he together with a team of
10:02students painted beautiful multicolored gouache paintings in the recesses in the frames and they
10:09were the backdrop for those pantomimes what are the murals of there are different pantomime characters
10:14and names that many people recognize like Jack from Jack and the Beanstalk or Little Red Riding Hood that
10:20kind of thing so they're very colorful and really evocative they were then hidden again behind the
10:25portos when they were put back once again on the walls and only revealed recently during restoration
10:29that's right and we decided to take the opportunity to display some of the pantomime costumes that we
10:36had found amongst all the textiles and they are incredible I mean you think about people putting
10:42pantomimes on they just cobbled together some kind of outfit I mean these are extraordinary aren't they
10:47these are these are pretty fine we have seven surviving costumes these are just two worn by Princess Elizabeth so
10:53what's this one here so this is when she played the lead role in Aladdin that was in 1943 so
11:00as
11:00you can see it's beautiful sort of frock coat with this wonderful frogging and I love those buttons and it's
11:06a sort of like a
11:07dungarees underneath but shorts and this one is from the last pantomime which was rather curious one that not many
11:13people have heard of
11:14called old mother red riding boots I think it was a bit of an amalgamation and this was worn these
11:20sort
11:20of bloomers in this little tunic were worn for a scene when the princess emerged from a bathing machine
11:26so they remind us that pantomime and playing those roles sort of fancy dress dressing up there's a strong
11:33world tradition of that so the two princesses would put these pantomimes on in this grand room who would come
11:39and see it so the king and queen came to watch their daughters of course performing and they performed
11:44alongside children from the royal school in the great park here at windsor and it was really for
11:50the castle community everybody that was working here during the second world war everybody that lived
11:53here of course many live-in staff and others around in the vicinity and the tickets sold went towards
12:00raising funds for the war effort and seeing these gives a sense of how much fun it must have been
12:05yeah you know it must have been a really lovely relief from the doom and gloom around
12:11putting on fundraising pantomimes wasn't the only way princess elizabeth helped the war effort
12:16with her growing sense of duty as soon as she was old enough she became the first female member of
12:22the royal family to join the armed services and at our roadshow in kensington palace in 2012 our much
12:30missed expert judith miller saw a remarkable archive from that time during the war the queen attended
12:36a course at camberley all to do with motor transport and driving and highway code and she was in the
12:42ats
12:43which is the auxiliary territorial service and one of the other people on this course was my mother
12:50this is a queen and that's my mother and of course this was very unusual for a member of the
12:55royal family
12:56particularly a female to attend a public course and this is your mom's diary yes she wrote a day by
13:04day diary and if i just read some of it um the commandant told us that we'd had the honor
13:09to be
13:09picked to attend the cadre course with the princess elizabeth for three weeks so what did the course
13:17involve well everything to do with motor transport how to change a tire um how to change the plugs i
13:24believe
13:24at one point she went home and told her father the king that she could now decoker an engine which
13:30i
13:30think is probably a little exuberant but anyway you know but by the end of the course yes she could
13:35change a wheel with the best of them and the queen kept in touch yes my mother was taken ill
13:42or what
13:42three or four years ago and um somehow the queen heard about it and we received this lovely letter and
13:49uh she says her majesty thinks about those times in war when you were both serving together at
13:54camberley a lovely touch i mean these are great memories yes i'm proud of my number
14:03two years after the end of the war in 1947 princess elizabeth married the dashing naval officer
14:10lieutenant philip mountbatten and so began a new chapter for elizabeth prince charles was born the
14:16following year and her role shifted towards balancing royal duties with motherhood but it
14:22wasn't long into their marriage before elizabeth's life was to change yet again on the 6th of february
14:291952 her beloved father king george vi died following a prolonged illness and princess elizabeth
14:37immediately acceded to the throne becoming queen elizabeth the second
14:46a year later on the 2nd of june 1953 elizabeth was crowned in westminster abbey flanked by six maids
14:54of honor the new queen wore a glittering dress designed by the legendary couturier norman hartnell
15:01to catch the eyes of the world work had begun on the coronation dress many months previously
15:08and its design was kept top secret as eve morris a seamstress who worked in hartnell's showroom at
15:14the time remembers i was only 17 so i was only a junior well i was a runner really in
15:23the embroidery
15:23department taking the coronation dress backwards and forwards if it ended up in the embroidery
15:30department it had to go back to the showroom but in the evening and bring back in the mornings
15:37took about three of us carrying it down route and place because it's so heavy and we were told not
15:45to
15:45speak to anybody about especially to press going along that road because they knew what was going on
15:53well this is a scrapbook from the queen's coronation in 53 this is the lower scallop on the hem of
16:04the
16:05dress oh it took for a long time back at windsor castle i've got a rare opportunity to see the
16:13coronation
16:14dress up close in the company of curator caroline the coronation dress i mean this is a feast of
16:25embroidery isn't it it really is it's completely encrusted on every single surface of course it's
16:32hartnell's great masterpiece creator for queen Elizabeth ii hartnell produced nine different
16:37designs for the queen to choose from the ninth being the one that she had the most input into because
16:43she wanted the embroideries not just to be in the traditional coronation combination of gold and
16:50white she wanted color that was a first for a sovereign's coronation dress and as well as the
16:58national symbols of the united kingdom she wanted the emblems of the dominions the countries of which
17:05she was sovereign to be included as well so for the united kingdom we've got got the thistle yes the
17:13shamrock we've got got roses somewhere roses rose here and then leek for whales yes not looking like
17:21a vegetable i have to say it's looking very floral it's absolutely beautiful so talk me through the
17:27symbols of of the countries of the commonwealth yes so we have the lotus which represents both india
17:34and what is now sri lanka at the time was ceylon we have the beautiful yellow wattle for australia
17:39the silver fern for new zealand the maple leaf of course for canada and then we have wheat cotton
17:46and jute for pakistan and then the protea and this beautiful pale pink silk shading um for south africa
17:54i mean i was fortunate enough to talk to one of the the women who embroidered this extraordinary dress
18:00and she pointed out to me that there amongst the three leaf clovers there is a four leaf clover as
18:06well i can't remember where it is it's over on this side um just where uh the queen's hand would
18:13fall as
18:14she walked down the nave of the abbey so that she could touch it for good luck and that was
18:19hartnell's
18:20you know very special edition that he wanted to add to the dress i mean so many things come to
18:27mind
18:27looking at this extraordinary dress not least i mean the queen was was young and i look how tiny this
18:34is you sort of wonder just on a human level carrying all that not only the weight of everyone's
18:40expectations but the sheer weight of what she was wearing i think knowing that the dress was so
18:47impeccable knowing that the design had been so carefully thought through and of course that she
18:53had her wonderful maids of honor to support her and you know the duke of edinburgh there that must
18:59have given her you know a huge amount of confidence help if needed was close at hand inside westminster
19:06abbey not least to prevent any potential wardrobe malfunctions as seamstress eve remembers i had to be at
19:13hartnell's showroom at six o'clock in the morning this this is at the ticket into the abbey the idea
19:21was
19:22that if anybody needed a stitch in time we were there to help but fortunately it never happened
19:31in part of the um ceremony she changed into an ordinary white dress didn't she purity
19:40and she had to go right past me into another dressing room where they changed the dress
19:47and we caught eye and that was a lovely experience well she lovely lady wasn't she special
20:01held at the guildhall in london are two priceless artifacts that were used during the coronation
20:07and jeffrey munn was thrilled to be given a rare glimpse of them by their custodians in full
20:12ceremonial dress you have brought me two indescribably rare and wonderful objects that absolutely
20:20humming with majesty and importance what's so nice about both of these objects is that they have been
20:26physically present with queen elizabeth ii at some of the most important moments in
20:33her reign so the crystal scepter was at her coronation in 1953 the pearl sword was taken to
20:40the accession council in 1952 at the very start of her reign was also present at the coronation
20:47staggering absolutely staggering thank you
20:50the rich symbolism and pageantry of the coronation was immortalized in a painting by artist terence
20:57cuneo feigned for his dynamic pictures of railways and military scenes alexandra gill met three of
21:04the artist's grandchildren at the guildhorn in london and heard the story of the royal commission
21:10thank you very much for bringing these wonderful works by terence cuneo now you're all members of
21:15the family is that right we are i'm his grandson it's my sister and my cousin and this is a
21:21rather beautiful
21:21sketch of the queen very young now what is this one about that's the first time he painted the late
21:28queen and it was for a lloyds commission and it was the laying of the foundation stone for the new
21:35lloyds
21:35building i did ask him once i said what was the queen like as a sitter and he said terrible
21:41because she
21:42just taught when i posed for him i'd get bored and stuff and if i said anything i was told
21:50to dry up
21:50but i don't imagine he did that with the queen probably not no the final painting for which
21:56this sketch was for was so well received at lloyds that led to the commissioning for the coronation
22:03and we have a copy of it here and you can see cuneo's trademark huge huge scale and very very
22:10dramatic
22:10light and filled with portrait figures yeah that's right it was it was very important to him to get
22:16each of the portraits just right so everybody i think that 52 people came to the studio individually
22:23to sit for their portraits now you have a couple of glorious photographs here tell us about those
22:28yes we have our grandfather starting the canvas in his studio in east malsey it was a huge canvas 11
22:37feet by eight feet i believe and this is our mother posing in the coronation robe which i believe is
22:45called the imperial mantle is that the actual coronation robe we believe it is yeah and how long did it
22:52take him to complete the finished work it we believe it's a year to the day from when he started
22:57it to
22:57when he signed it and it was finished it was presented to the queen at lancaster house by the lord's
23:04lieutenant's at a sort of dinner which he attended and it went down really well and am i right in
23:11thinking that now hands it hangs in buckingham palace it does yeah thank you very much for coming
23:16in and sharing your memories that's a pleasure thank you very much as well as the traditional coronation
23:23painting elizabeth's was the first coronation to be televised but with tv still in its infancy many people
23:30didn't yet own their own television set so they went to great lengths to catch the broadcast one
23:36viewer got in touch to share her memories of watching in ireland i was living in a small town called
23:43monasterevan in county kildare it was very rural it had one main street we had some british neighbors
23:52who were very much into the coronation and they invited us in to watch their television
23:59and they also put on a party for us where they had dyed all the food red white and blue
24:05we sat in a small room with the television but unfortunately we only saw snow except for one
24:12glimpse of the coach where the whole room erupted in excitement thinking we're going to see more but
24:17we didn't we only saw the coach it wouldn't have been very popular being royalist was not looked upon
24:26very kindly in ireland it was very much a strong republic at the time this i i can't remember
24:33actually being given it but we had it for the coronation and it gave us the pictures of all that
24:39was going to happen it starts off with the history of the queen and the crown and then the best
24:48bit
24:49is the fold-up of the actual scene of the coach
24:55we often see coronation souvenirs on the roadshow many emblazoned with the image of the young queen but
25:02not all of them were necessarily meant to last today i've brought along a biscuit tin from the
25:10coronation it belonged to my grandmother and she had a very special birthday coming up just before
25:18the coronation it was going to be her 50th birthday and i'm guessing she sent off for the biscuits to
25:24be
25:24a birthday treat and they arrived in their packaging on her birthday and so did i i was born on
25:33her 50th
25:34birthday and what's special about them is she didn't just keep it with all its packaging but
25:46inside i've got the biscuits how they didn't come to be eaten i have no idea i always had an
25:55affection
25:56for the late queen once the coronation was over the queen embarked on a life of service as the head
26:07of
26:07state and the head of the commonwealth with duties ranging from meetings with the prime minister
26:13to hosting visiting dignitaries presiding over the state opening of parliament
26:18and leading the nation in national acts of remembrance
26:23since the time of queen victoria the monarch's head has appeared on stamps and with elizabeth
26:29now queen it was time for a royal refresh of stamps and currency but it was perhaps a set of
26:34stamps produced in 1967 that became the most iconic alexandra gill met two sisters with an
26:41intriguing family story about their mother's connection to the design thank you very much for
26:46bringing in this portrait bus it's incredibly elegant by arnold machin what is the connection with your
26:52family this is our mother angela huens sculpted by arnold machin when she was 21. arnold was a family
26:59friend of my mother and her parents and it was part of his portfolio for the institute of sculptors
27:07membership this bus turned out to be quite significant because arnold machin got the commission
27:12to produce the new coin in 1964. he then got the commission to produce the stamp for 1967. so there's
27:22another relationship between yourselves and this bust and the stamp design yes that's right
27:27the first design that he did was of the queen's head stopping at the neck and the feedback from
27:35the palace was that they wanted some shoulders as well um and obviously queens are busy people and
27:42anybody's shoulders would have done and mum was available so the shoulders of the queen on the stamp
27:49are actually the shoulders of our mother that's absolutely fantastic isn't it and in the stamp she's got
27:54a kind of she's got a dress right just on the corners of her shoulders hasn't she yes so my
28:00mother
28:00modeled um at my grandmother's house um she produced a pair of old curtains and arnold draped them around
28:07her shoulders and what we see here is a final product machin was from stoke-on-trent and he worked
28:12for
28:12crown derby and he worked for minton and he also worked for wedgewood i can see a wonderful correlation
28:18here between the wedgewood cameos and the image that we have here and it's very very striking with this
28:23dark background the queen specifically chose this color as the background because she wanted it to
28:29emulate the penny black which was the first adhesive stamp in britain and it's called dark olive sepia
28:37and it creates this wonderful contrast and it makes the actual sculpture really pop out it was
28:44reproduced in canada and new zealand among other countries i did not know that bit
28:50that's fantastic i think we can conclude really that arnold machin's portrait of queen elizabeth is
28:58one of the most reproduced portraits of all time it must run into the billions and it has your mother's
29:04shoulders on it it's phenomenal really yes thank you both very much for bringing this in it's an
29:11absolutely extraordinary story and i'll never look at a stamp in the same way again thank you so much
29:18as britain entered the 1970s alongside royal duties the queen was able to find time for a private
29:26passion horses her love for them as a little girl lasted her whole life and gave her a connection to
29:34the magnificent high clear castle in hampshire which you might recognize as the filming location for
29:38downtown abbey it's also home to george herbert the eighth earl of carnarvon
29:47so this is pink lily my little heroine and stars the family has bred a long line of racehorses
29:53and george's father the late seventh earl known to elizabeth as porchie was her racing manager
30:01good girl can we go into the castle absolutely absolutely portie first met elizabeth in 1944
30:09and prince philip thought he might be the right kind of chap to accompany the young princess to the
30:15races they hit it off at once lord carnarvon let's talk about the queen and your father the seventh
30:24phil because they were very close he was her racing manager he was a racing manager yes from the early
30:3070s or onwards because it was the great interest of late majesty outside all her hard work as as
30:37queen and head of state the queen had a horse here suitably named high clear well high clear was bred
30:43here from my grandfather stallion and went on to great success yes absolutely absolutely she won the
30:50pre-diam the equivalent of the oaks over here for phillies in in 74 there was enormous a cheering
30:57of her majesty um my father and your father and the queen they got on well didn't they they got
31:03a very well from quite a young age but it became a lifelong friendship of of shared interests i mean
31:09the horses is well known but also very much the countryside rural affairs farming and there was a love
31:15of the beauty of the countryside of the trees the plants flowers gardening there's a wonderful picture
31:22of your christening you're in the arms of the queen that was a great honor the majesty was my godmother
31:28i think she had a fair number of of of god children but she was quite assiduous in in remembering
31:34christmases and that kind of thing and you've got some very special cufflinks christening cufflinks i've
31:39got two very very special mementos from quite a different types of things there's the
31:43the beautiful pair of cufflinks with the with the e2 as an elizabeth 2r which are definitely still
31:50worn of a of an evening are you still wearing it's not not every other day i was so terrified
31:55of losing
31:56them and tell me about this camera what's the story there this was a confirmation present and a
32:02very appropriate present from the queen given that she loved taking photographs as well absolutely yes
32:06yeah i i had great fun with it i took a lot of pictures of it and i've still got
32:10um albums with with
32:12photographs of the queen was so well known to all of us of course but that's at a great distance
32:19clearly but you of course knew her personally and met her many many times how would you describe her as
32:28a person she was a a a warm person wanting to to engage in in conversation and that when always
32:36when
32:36there was a gathering of bringing people in and including them wonderful lady and just just a
32:41privilege to know even in a small way well thank you for telling us about it
32:49in 1977 the queen and the nation celebrated her silver jubilee marking 25 years on the throne
32:57there were street parties and parades and we were contacted by a family who traveled to london to try to
33:03catch a glimpse of the golden coach as the queen made her way to a service of thanksgiving at saint
33:08paul's cathedral with over a million people lining the route
33:15we wanted to see the possession and the soldiers and the band and the music
33:20and all the finale that goes with it we drove into london we came out at to fargo square and
33:29there was
33:29masses of people going in one direction and it was a very dull wet cold day
33:38and then we stood on this low wall the side of st martin's in the field and they had their
33:45um bells
33:46going ringing and it was really a wonderful atmosphere a joyful atmosphere and everyone was
33:52excited waiting for this carriage to arrive
33:56i was a seven year old and one thing i definitely remember is wearing my union jack socks and shorts
34:03i kept a scrapbook of it covers the radio times and newspapers things like that and i also kept
34:09a diary i wrote we got up at 6am and we went to london saw lots of soldiers and the
34:15band all sorts of
34:16things like that and it was just a really momentous day i also remember that my dad recorded it on
34:22a very
34:22old tape recorder he recorded procession going past and my mum dad and me were sort of doing little
34:30bits of commentary on it yes there's the top of the coach you can just see the top of the
34:34yellow
34:34couch my world what a splendid sight the carnation coach is absolutely golden all over there she goes
34:42oh i can see her inside oh she's got a beautiful pink hat on absolutely terrific three cheers for the
35:03queen a jubilee lunch was laid on for the queen at the guild hall in london prepared by one of
35:08our
35:08viewers who worked as a chef at the time what is in front of me is the actual menu itself
35:15the first course was salmon trout bellevue the main course was a fillet of angus beef a bayonet sauce
35:25and the suite was charante melon with raspberries my role was looking after the fillet of beef
35:33the kitchens themselves are in the basement of the guild hall and the dining hall itself was on the
35:40first floor and all the food had to be transported by lift i felt a great feeling of pride because
35:48i'd actually catered for the queen
35:58as head of state queen elizabeth saw travel as an important diplomatic tool to strengthen britain's
36:05relationships in her jubilee year she visited no less than 36 commonwealth countries and territories
36:11and with every state visit there was an outfit to match the occasion back at windsor castle i've got
36:17the chance to see two well-traveled items from the royal wardrobe with curator caroline caroline you just
36:24have to look at these two addresses to know what decades we were in 70s and 80s this is absolutely
36:30splendid when would the queen have worn this this kind of dress is it's very formal but it's also a
36:35little bit informal and so for evening occasions on board the royal yacht britannia when of course her
36:41majesty was undertaking her foreign tours this would have been the kind of dress worn on those types of
36:47occasions and it's got these fabulous long sleeves hasn't it yes it's very elegant it's very lightweight
36:53very comfortable to wear so it has this sort of informality as i was saying but also i think
36:58the this incredible embellishment in these really vivid colors just gives it that sense of formality
37:04and a very special kind of sparkle that would have caught the lights and then this a little later in
37:10life yes absolutely so this is 1986 and uh both dresses actually made by the same designer ian thomas
37:18who had trained with hartnell and this was worn during the state visit to china in 1986 her majesty being
37:25the first reigning british sovereign to visit that country we look at the embroidery and we think
37:30okay what's going on here and this is actually chinese tree peony this which is pink yes in these
37:37beautiful sprays and that's the national symbol of china but it's also a symbol of long life and
37:45prosperity so it has a message to deliver yes there's a lot of soft power in the way the queen
37:50dressed
37:50and she was in canada she would often wear something with a maple leaf she would try and reflect and
37:55flatter the country that she was visiting absolutely and i think it shows how clothing can be you know
38:01both beautifully designed but also incorporate this messaging i think any woman looking at these clothes
38:07would also think what was it like to wear them so i know you say this is more informal but
38:13i mean this is
38:13this is a very structured bodice and then the embroidery here is is three-dimensional yes but
38:20the queen has to move in this she has a sitting she has to bend this arm with all this
38:24embroidery
38:24and was that factored in yes i mean so much thought and attention went into the creation of these pieces
38:31which is why the queen had these very close relationships with her couturiers many of whom worked
38:35for her for multiple decades and the queen understood just as much as her couturiers what would work and what
38:41wouldn't just to make sure that when the queen was wearing the clothes everything would be perfect
38:47i mean this i think is quite a tricky shade of pink to wear
38:52i love this i mean i would give i mean i feel like a great day next these dresses you
38:57know because
38:57i feel so tall but i would love to have something like that my god i mean who wouldn't
39:05whether it was a state occasion or a relaxing voyage on the royal yacht britannia there was always a
39:10trusty crew on hand to make sure each trip ran smoothly we were contacted by a viewer who accompanied
39:16the queen on a series of voyages as hillary kay discovered at london's guildhall this is a fine body
39:25of crew on a massive yacht and in the middle of it is the queen this has to be the
39:34royal yacht britannia
39:35it is indeed we were part of a a unique club now hang on you're saying we are you on
39:42this
39:43up the top there second or third one in so there we go yeah right at the top well that's
39:50fantastic so
39:51this is on board the royal yacht britannia where were you going we were going for the silver jubilee
39:57cruise tour to the pacific australia new zealand so what was your role on board i was a signalman
40:04communicator leading radio operator and and as a signalman um is this anything to do with you
40:12this a little bit so you were in charge of the flags with a group of other guys and we
40:19used to look
40:20after all the the royal standards the banners the court flags as we call them if we were visiting canada
40:27for example the queen had a series of flags that would be flown there if we went to new zealand
40:34the same principle would arise the court flags would be changed accordingly now forgive me this
40:42looks like a serious knees up what on earth is going on here that's our concert parties it was our
40:49version of the royal variety performance or sods opera as we called it sods opera and hang on did
40:56you ever have a starring role i was on board i was in that particular that was my second one
41:01but i've
41:02made my debut on the jubilee well the pacific the pacific one and where we had a a south pacific
41:10type
41:10theme somebody noted that it was tradition for garland of flowers to be presented oh the
41:18two individuals exactly yeah and as we finished our set i soiree'd across in front of the queen
41:27and to the duke of redmond i sort of glimpsed out of the queen resurrection i thought this is going
41:33to
41:33be okay then presented the garland of flowers over to the duke of edinburgh over his head he played the
41:42part brilliant he took it upon and it was just the environment that we were able to create you see
41:50that comes across because you know the the i suppose the thing about the royal rock britannia it feels
41:57like home doesn't it yeah exactly right with the queen covering thousands of miles by land sea and air
42:05there were occasional hiccups and jeffrey munn heard about an impromptu stop in canada in 1963.
42:12so look what you brought me here all kinds of royal souvenirs what's going on here my mother was the
42:19head housekeeper of the hotel vancouver which is a very very big grand hotel and uh my mother was with
42:27her friend uh listening to the radio and she heard that the queen was making an emergency landing no in
42:35vancouver so that was all very exciting there was about 40 minutes notice to the hotel that they were
42:43responsible goodness for housing the queen and 42 of her entourage it's like a sort of dream that one
42:50sometimes has a the queen's going to come to tea or something and then she really did yes so my
42:56mother
42:56went to the hotel and she gathered as many staff as she could and they were busy cleaning the royal
43:03suite which was on the 14th floor and along came the the rcmp who were the royal canadian mounted police
43:11they needed to ensure that everything was safe safe for the queen and prince philip yes they messed
43:19everything up yes my mother was following behind them yes putting everything right dahlias back in the
43:25vase and all the rest of it and they weren't on horseback i mean that was one mercy i suppose
43:30no no
43:32no not on the 14th floor i i don't think the elevator was big enough for a horse i'm feeling
43:38i think the queen would be more interested in that than almost anything else but anyway so your mother
43:42obviously met her or this wouldn't happen would it this this cigarette lighter tell us how did that happen
43:47well as far as i understand uh my mother was there when the queen arrived to the royal suite
43:55the story she gave her curtsy and then the next day when the queen was was leaving and
44:01all had gone very well yeah she was presented with this lighter yes how marvelous and it's a dunhill lighter
44:08and it has the queen's cipher on there it does and so there's no ambiguity about that at all and
44:14this
44:14is your lovely mother here with a coat of arms but what's this letter from lady susan hussey who is
44:21um
44:22an enormously important person in the late queen's life so i wrote a letter to the queen telling her that
44:29my mother had uh passed away and susan hussey the lady in waiting has stated here her majesty remembers
44:36being amazed that the hotel could suddenly accommodate such a large complement of household staff
44:43in addition to the crew of the aircraft the queen recalls too that they were very well looked after
44:49at the hotel vancouver oh how marvelous yeah well that's as good as it can possibly guess isn't it what
44:54a lovely thing to bring here thank you very much lovely thank you very much catching a glimpse of the
45:03queen while on her royal tours was a real high point for many as alexis cassar remembers just a young
45:09girl at the time of the queen's visit to the bahamas in 1994. the weather was beautiful it was a
45:17wonderful sunny morning the red carpet was rolled out as she disembarked my heart was in my throat my mom
45:28had me beautifully attired i held my bouquet i quickly prepared myself with the perfect curtsy
45:36she then received the flowers she was delighted to hear about my hobbies about the school i attended
45:44that made me feel extremely special to be one-on-one with the queen of england what are the odds
45:59as well as many heartfelt bouquets of flowers the queen was regularly presented with official gifts
46:05from the dignitary she met a tradition that dates back hundreds of years and in windsor castle's
46:11waterloo chamber i got the chance to see a small selection with curator rachel pete underhill many
46:17of which wouldn't look out of place on the antiques roadshow this particularly has caught my eye and this
46:24this has to be barbara hepworth that's right yes and this was presented to the queen in truro in 1966
46:30and it's hepber's first work in gold and really draws upon her view of the sun and the moon setting
46:37and
46:37rising over the waves in cornwall so it's very evocative of the place and a beautiful piece as
46:43well absolutely now this represents cornwall but then we've got things from all around the world
46:48because of the commonwealth was so important to the queen what about this item here so this is a mere
46:53which is a nephrite club it's maori from new zealand and it was sent to the lake queen in 1964
47:00as a symbol of peace and reconciliation within the commonwealth many of the gifts the lake queen received
47:06were really fraught with important diplomatic meaning and that's certainly the case here
47:12what kind of occasions prompt a gift official moments such as a state visit or a jubilee or a
47:19coronation but also at more personal moments like a wedding so the lake queen when she was princess
47:24elizabeth in 1947 upon her marriage to the duke of edinburgh she received and these gold bracelets
47:30bracelets from the gitgat community in british columbia in canada what's amazing about these
47:36bracelets is we have a letter in the archives explaining the symbolism of the design and this
47:41design is supposed to evoke earthly and heavenly might or power and together they're supposed to
47:47be a particularly chiefly or royal symbol so it's a very fitting gift and what about this magnificent
47:53silk scarf this scarf was presented to queen elizabeth ii by president nelson mandela of south africa
48:00in 1996 during his state visit to the united kingdom i remember that so well because he
48:06had not long been released not that long been released as a prisoner and suddenly there he was
48:10in buckingham palace and i mean watching it as an observer the queen looked pretty thrilled to meet
48:16him because south africa was part of the commonwealth and it had to leave because of apartheid
48:19and then under mandela came back into the commonwealth and this is quite an eclectic
48:24collection just here on this table i mean the question that springs to mind is what are the
48:30most kind of odd or perhaps bizarre things that the queen was given for the royal collection and over
48:35the course of her long reign the late queen received all kinds of items ranging from edible cuisine
48:41to flora and fauna so plant specimens and also live animals on several occasions these included
48:48flamingos and crocodiles and the story there is that the crocodile was put in a bathtub in buckingham
48:53palace before it was safely dispatched to an appropriate zoo it became less common i think for
49:00animals to be presented over the course of her lifetime and often more symbolic gifts would be given
49:06instead but certainly some unusual items well it's fascinating to see just this tiny selection
49:13of such a huge collection thank you very much pleasure nelson mandela's 1996 visit may have been a
49:21highlight but the decade was not without its challenges in a speech at the guild hall in 1992
49:27which the queen dubbed her annus haribalis she reflected on a difficult year for her family
49:33compounded by a massive fire at her beloved windsor castle which destroyed 115 rooms
49:41but by the time of her golden jubilee in 2002 there was such fondness for queen elizabeth that people
49:47wanted to pay tribute to her one company turned their hand to carving replicas of her horses
49:53as lisa lloyd found out when she visited the stevenson brothers workshop in kent so here we are
50:00surrounded by these magnificent handmade rocking horses which is a real heritage craft we all know that her
50:06majesty had a lifelong love of horses and you made a number of horses for her so what was her
50:12reaction
50:12when you first presented with that very first horse well it was it was an interesting thing so i wrote
50:18to
50:18her majesty and suggested that we would be making a golden jubilee rocking horse for her and to celebrate
50:23the 50 years on the throne and i got we got a lovely letter back saying great come up and
50:27see me we
50:28we're up there and we we're in the queen's yard in comes her majesty and yeah it was wonderful wonderful
50:36presentation so what was she like was it a formal occasion was she very very relaxed with us we were
50:42at home and on on her turf as it were the next morning however i was showing at windsor hall
50:50show and
50:51i was sitting on a rocking horse and her majesty turned up at the stand and um i said good
50:58morning
50:58your majesty how's he settled in then and she giggled and said very well thank you um i put him
51:05in my
51:06oak room for my luncheon guests to see my new horse and by the way which one of you tied
51:11him to the wall
51:12were you worried he was going to run away but just magic moment i mean just so that started a
51:19tradition
51:19then of making horses for her late majesty included this one burmese which i understand was her
51:25one of her favorite horses burmese was indeed her favorite horse she trooped the color on burmese for
51:3117 or 18 years given to her majesty the late queen by the royal canadian mounted police the mounties
51:38in 1969 i think and she passed away but we thought for her majesty's 90th birthday we'd surprise her
51:48with a wooden replica so i understand this has got a little secret drawer she does she does under the
51:55tail there's a little bottom drawer oh literally literally a bottom drawer which fascinated our late
52:02queen with the the maple leaf lovely maple leaf um made in bog oak four thousand year old bog oak
52:09and
52:09there someone's pinched the maple syrup but there was maple syrup in her majesty's one obviously another
52:14nod to canada another nod to canada and her majesty said to me mark come and demonstrate the bottom
52:20drawer a real honor real honor well it's been an absolute pleasure to meet you and show me your
52:27fantastic collection and thank you so much
52:34even as she neared the end of her reign queen elizabeth showed no sign of slowing down
52:40for the opening ceremony of the 2012 olympics she shared a sketch with james bond and then seemingly
52:47parachuted into the stadium from a helicopter and then 10 years later for her platinum jubilee
52:52there was a four-day holiday with tea parties a concert and again she did a sketch this time
52:58taking tea with paddington bear at buckingham palace the heartwarming moment was commemorated in a
53:05painting created by one of our viewers the queen's grace and stoicism resonated with a new generation
53:12but the queen also revealed a playfulness and humor in her later years as alexandra gill heard at the
53:18guild hall when she met illustrator eleanor tomlinson many of us will recognize this image and may i say
53:25what a pleasure it is to meet an artist on the road show tell me the story it was inspired
53:30by the
53:30platinum jubilee celebrations back in june 2022 and that magical opening of party at the palace
53:36featuring her late majesty and a certain marmalade loving bear paddington i'd watched it with family
53:43and i was instantly inspired really to sort of capture the moment of that weekend and um i've done
53:49in the past the odd piece of people walking away and i think that subconsciously influenced the
53:56composition of them both walking away and the different heights and the colors and things like
54:00that and what inspired you to choose the green because we all know what paddington bear wears
54:04well exactly and i'm so grateful that i'm naturally a very indecisive person because i'd painted
54:11paddington and it was just the queen left to finish off and in the time it took me to decide
54:17what she's
54:18obviously known for those bright colored outfits on the tv the flag at the palace went up at buckingham
54:23palace we all knew that she was going to come out to that balcony and of course moments later she
54:27walked out in that stunning bright green and that was the decision made so i'm glad i was holding off
54:34and trying to deliberate really which color and there's a real sense of the end of a party isn't there
54:41with the marmalade sandwiches presumably and the corgi and the bunting how did everybody get to hear
54:47about this um i have social media being an artist and illustrator and um so naturally it was another
54:53illustration of mine that i posted and within minutes and hours it was just going everywhere
54:58and this point i didn't think it was ever going to go viral or think anything of it too much
55:03apart
55:03from gosh this is popular and within minutes i was being asked if people could buy a copy
55:09and then it just snowballed i sent the very first one that came back from the printers to her majesty
55:15and i know for a fact through various sources that she did indeed receive that copy and i'm led to
55:22think she she very much liked it now what about the the one closest to you almost three months later
55:28to the day from the platinum jubilee weekend her majesty passed away i felt it was only right to
55:33create an illustration her late majesty walking arm and arm with prince philip emma the pony and a corgi
55:40walking away they're both of them aren't they they're images of kindness and friendship that's
55:47that's how i interpret them both i think they're beautiful thank you thank you very much for
55:52bringing them in and telling us your story most notably the queen's platinum jubilee was to be her
56:01last balcony appearance a few months later after a short period of declining health and mobility
56:07she died at balmoral castle in scotland she was 96
56:15queen elizabeth ii reigned for a staggering 70 years longer than any other british monarch
56:21to put that into context she was served by 15 prime ministers she conferred over 400 000 honors and
56:29awards she gave royal assent to over three and a half thousand acts of parliament and she's estimated to
56:35have traveled over a million miles during her more than 260 official visits made in her lifetime
56:42and throughout it all she conducted herself with grace dignity and a sense of duty that was admired
56:49across the globe we hope you've enjoyed seeing this small selection of treasures and mementos remembering
56:56the remarkable life of the queen from winter castle and this special antiques roadshow commemorating
57:02elizabeth ii
57:13get your fix with the magic makers from bargain hunt to the bidding room watch our vintage finds
57:19and fixes collection on iplayer coming up a remarkable legacy and a period of momentous change queen elizabeth
57:25the second her story our century is next
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