00:01I think we should put her record-breaking reign into its full context.
00:05Of course, we've got issues of the moment that are on everyone's mind,
00:09but when you stand back and look at this extraordinary figure
00:12who came to the throne unexpectedly as a 25-year-old mother of two generations ago.
00:19I mean, at a time when we were still in sort of black and white,
00:23when jet travel hadn't existed.
00:26No one even thought of going to the moon,
00:27and she just reigned through this vast span of the ages
00:32and was as authoritative and loved and respected at the end as she was at the beginning,
00:39and she was working till the very end, till her last day.
00:42Rather than it be purely a celebration of Elizabeth II,
00:47this is a time when much more difficult questions are being asked about her personal judgment,
00:53particularly in relation to Andrew, what she knew, when she knew it,
00:58what she did to shield him from public view, from public scrutiny.
01:03And I think it's also a time when, you know, more profound questions are also being asked
01:09about the institution she presided over, particularly in the last two decades of her life.
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