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Gyles Brandreth explains how the late Queen reacted when she heard Prince Harry and Meghan were going to call their daughter Lilibet

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00:00What are you getting at? What do you want me to say?
00:03Oh, yes. So when she got the call saying we're going to call her Lilibet, I think it's not
00:12quite right to say, I didn't hear the phone call, so my second-hand source is not quite
00:18right to say that she was asked. I think she was told, we're thinking of calling her Lilibet.
00:24What do you think? Oh, yes. Because I'm sure if she'd felt no, she could have said no.
00:31And she went along with it, because she was a nice, decent person. And then I do know
00:36that when she heard they were calling her Lily, she said, oh, that's lovely. That's lovely.
00:41And then there was no confusion. Yes. I love that. No mixing things up.
00:45I mean, in a way, it's a picture of the Queen. You've got to think of a country woman of
00:49her
00:49generation. You've got to think of a grandmother. So her response would be a grandmother's response.

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