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Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning monarch in British history, has died at 96. A tribute to her amazing life · Naughty But Nice with Rob Shuter

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  Speaker 1: Sable Advice Shot. Hello, Hello, welcome to the Naughty but
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  Speaker 1: Nice Show. I'm your host, Rob Shooter. It's Friday. Normally
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  Speaker 1: on Friday, O dearie friend Corey Andrew joins us. But
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  Speaker 1: today we're gonna do things a little different. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to have a entire show a dedicated to Queen Elizabeth.
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  Speaker 1: The second It's just gonna be Me and You Naughty
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  Speaker 1: is talking about Queen Elizabeth. Obviously, lots and lots of news,
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  Speaker 1: but I wanted to spend the next fifteen twenty minutes
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  Speaker 1: going through some really interesting, unusual, fantastic facts about this
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  Speaker 1: incredible human being. Today, I want to celebrate her, talk
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  Speaker 1: about some of the most amazing things in her live. Really,
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  Speaker 1: we spend a moment just enjoying this fantastic life. So
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  Speaker 1: you might not know this, but Queen Elizabeth was not
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  Speaker 1: born heir apparent to the throne. For the first ten
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  Speaker 1: years of her life, Princess Elizabeth was a relatively minor royal.
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  Speaker 1: Think of the status today of Princess Eugenie. That's basically
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  Speaker 1: the life that Queen Elizabeth thought she was going to have.
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  Speaker 1: She never ever thought she was going to be queen
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  Speaker 1: and when her father's brother. Her uncle abdicated. That's when
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  Speaker 1: everything changed. So they did not know that was going
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  Speaker 1: to happen when she was born. And she wasn't born
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  Speaker 1: in a palace. In fact, she was born in a
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  Speaker 1: London town house. So instead of Buckingham Palace or one
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  Speaker 1: of the great castles, she was born in a very
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  Speaker 1: fancy neighborhood. She still was a princess. She was born
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  Speaker 1: in Mayfair and the house that she was warning has
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  Speaker 1: since been demolished. It was demolished in ninety seven. It's
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  Speaker 1: now there's a Chinese restaurant on the location, the site
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  Speaker 1: of where her birthplace was. Once again, this proves that
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  Speaker 1: they did not know. She did not know that she
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  Speaker 1: was going to have this extraordinary, this extraordinary life. Noess
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  Speaker 1: she al was k near. She was a princess, don't
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  Speaker 1: take that away from her, But she did not think
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  Speaker 1: she was going to be the queen. When she was little,
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  Speaker 1: her younger sister, Margaret, gave her the nickname that Lilibit
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  Speaker 1: was her nickname because Margaret had trouble pronouncing Elizabeth Elizabeth.
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  Speaker 1: That's a difficult name for a young child. Now at
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  Speaker 1: the time, Princess Elizabeth. She called her sister Margot, and
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  Speaker 1: that name stuck for the rest of their lives. They
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  Speaker 1: didn't go to school, so Elizabeth and Margaret they were
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  Speaker 1: shooted by very fancy teachers that came over to their
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  Speaker 1: house from Eaton College, which at the time was boys only.
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  Speaker 1: Still can you imagine boys only? And get this. She
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  Speaker 1: learned about religion from the Archbishop of Canterbury, so once
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  Speaker 1: again they didn't go to school. They were tutored at home.
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  Speaker 1: She joined the British Women's Branch of the Army during
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  Speaker 1: World War Two. She really wanted to be of service
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of people left London they were out
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  Speaker 1: in London. No, Princess Elizabeth stayed in London and actually
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  Speaker 1: worked for the army and get a flat tire on
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  Speaker 1: the motorway the highway. You aren't Queen Elizabeth City next
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  Speaker 1: to you, because she could change that tire. Elizabeth and
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  Speaker 1: her husband had known each other since childhood. Philip first
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  Speaker 1: met Elizabeth when she was only eight years old. He
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  Speaker 1: was fourteen. You know, both attended the wedding of Princess
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  Speaker 1: Marina of Greece and Prince George. That's another of her
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  Speaker 1: uncle's so they both attended this wedding. That's when they
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  Speaker 1: first met each other. Now, this is where it gets
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  Speaker 1: a little bit a little bit on. Philip is actually
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  Speaker 1: her cousin, So Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth a third cousins.
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  Speaker 1: They both share the same great great grandparents, who are
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  Speaker 1: Queen Victoria and Prince Elbert. Can you imagine Queen Victoria
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  Speaker 1: and Prince Albert. Now, she didn't tell her parents that
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  Speaker 1: she was getting married. Her parents, in fact, would only
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  Speaker 1: approve of this wedding if they both waited to announce
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  Speaker 1: it after her twenty one birthday party, So the official
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  Speaker 1: announcement came nearly a year after these two got together.
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  Speaker 1: She promised to devote her life to public service on
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  Speaker 1: that twenty one birthday party, during a radio broadcast from
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  Speaker 1: Cape Town, she committed herself to a life of public service,
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  Speaker 1: and I think we can all agree she kept that promise.
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  Speaker 1: So she also got to choose her own surname. Technically,
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  Speaker 1: the Queen's last name is Windsor, chosen by George the
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  Speaker 1: Five in nineteen seventeen after the family wanted to distance
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  Speaker 1: themselves from their German sounding name during World War One
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  Speaker 1: so they didn't become Windsor's until nineteen seventeen. They were
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  Speaker 1: looking for a new name. They wanted to get away
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  Speaker 1: from their German roots, and nothing signs more British than Windsor,
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  Speaker 1: so that name was completely invented. They got to choose
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  Speaker 1: that name. Then, in nineteen sixty when they got married,
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth and Philip adopted the official surname Windsor mount Batten.
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  Speaker 1: His last name was mount Batten. Her last name was
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  Speaker 1: Windsor because she was going to be the Queen of England,
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  Speaker 1: though she didn't want to take on his name, and
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  Speaker 1: so they joined their names together and the rest of
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  Speaker 1: her life she was Elizabeth Windsor mount Battern. She used
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  Speaker 1: the London Tube for the very first time in May nine,
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  Speaker 1: thirty nine. Can you believe this? The Queen on the tube.
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  Speaker 1: She also visited a tube again many years later. She
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  Speaker 1: waited thirty years nineteen sixty nine for the opening of
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  Speaker 1: the Victoria Lyon. That's the very first time and the
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  Speaker 1: second time. I don't think she's done it any other time,
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  Speaker 1: but Queen Elizabeth at one point did go on the tube,
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  Speaker 1: which we know as the subway. Her current nation was
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  Speaker 1: televised against her wishes in nineteen fifty two, Queen Elizabeth
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  Speaker 1: officially transcended to the throne. She was just twenty five
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  Speaker 1: years old. Now she is notoriously camera shy. Even later
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  Speaker 1: on in her life. She never really got used to
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  Speaker 1: the camera. She didn't want photographs taken of her wedding,
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  Speaker 1: and she didn't want she certainly didn't want the event televised.
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  Speaker 1: But a commission chaired by her husband, Prince Philip, they
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  Speaker 1: decided that to televise the event would be a very
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  Speaker 1: good idea, and they convinced the Queen and of this,
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  Speaker 1: and so she finally said yes, she would let her
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  Speaker 1: coronation be televised. But there was one caveat a big
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  Speaker 1: deal here, no close ups of her face. So for
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  Speaker 1: the first time the cameras were invited into Westminster Abbey.
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  Speaker 1: Over two hundred and seventy seven million people around the
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  Speaker 1: world got to watch this. In fact, television sales sword
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  Speaker 1: people went out and bought TVs just to watch this.
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  Speaker 1: There's a reason that she wears those bright neon ensembles.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. You've seen pictures of her always in bright,
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  Speaker 1: bright colors. So her royal biographer said, the reason she
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  Speaker 1: does that is so that you are able to see
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  Speaker 1: her from far away. She knows she's the Queen. She
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  Speaker 1: knows you're probably not going to get that close to her.
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  Speaker 1: She knows people want to see her, so she always
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  Speaker 1: wears something shockingly bright, A very good idea. She uses
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  Speaker 1: her purse to signal to her staff, So her handbag
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  Speaker 1: is basically a communication tool for her, and when she
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  Speaker 1: puts it on different sides of her it signals to
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  Speaker 1: her staff what she wants. They've got this secret code.
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  Speaker 1: I'd tell you what all the details are, but they
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  Speaker 1: won't tell us. The staff have confirmed this that yes,
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  Speaker 1: she does use her handbag as a secret code. However,
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  Speaker 1: they won't tell us quite what she means. But if
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  Speaker 1: you're seated and she puts her bag on her left,
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  Speaker 1: it means something different from her bag on her right.
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  Speaker 1: If she opens up her purse, she wants something different.
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  Speaker 1: Talking about opening up her purse, the only time she
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  Speaker 1: ever carried cash was Sundays when she went to chat
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  Speaker 1: so she could put money in the donation. So when
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  Speaker 1: they have the donation plates that go around, she doesn't
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  Speaker 1: want to be the only person not putting any money in,
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  Speaker 1: so she only carries money on a Sunday. She's also
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  Speaker 1: the only person in Britain who can drive without a
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  Speaker 1: license plate on her car. She's the Queen. She doesn't
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  Speaker 1: need a license plate, and she also doesn't need a passport.
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  Speaker 1: When she travels around the world, she doesn't have a passport.
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  Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be fantastic? No more looking for your passport
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  Speaker 1: the night before your trip. You don't need one if
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  Speaker 1: your Queen Elizabeth. She's the longest reigning monarch in British history.
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  Speaker 1: So next to her was Queen Victoria. Now she was
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  Speaker 1: on the throne for sixty three years, seven months and
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  Speaker 1: two days, so Queen Elizabeth now has exceeded that. She's
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  Speaker 1: been on the throne over seventy two years now. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: King Louis of France was king longer than her, but
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  Speaker 1: he became king when he was four all years old.
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  Speaker 1: So they say she's the longest serving monarch, which means
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  Speaker 1: she was actually doing the job at four years old.
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  Speaker 1: You've got somebody else doing the job. There have been
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  Speaker 1: six popes, six popes during Queen Elizabeth's reign, and she's
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  Speaker 1: been served by fifteen prime ministers. Just a few days
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  Speaker 1: ago it was fourteen, but she signed in that Prime
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  Speaker 1: minister just a few days ago, who's also called Elizabeth.
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  Speaker 1: Her very first prime minister was Winston Churchill. Winston Churchill.
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  Speaker 1: It gives you a sense of history around this extraordinary woman.
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  Speaker 1: So although her birthday is on April twenty one, it's
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  Speaker 1: actually celebrated in June. The event is known as the
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  Speaker 1: Trooping of the Color. We've talked about this amazing event.
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  Speaker 1: It features the royal family in a procession through London
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  Speaker 1: and then they end up waving from Buckingham Palace balcony.
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  Speaker 1: They did this because many centuries ago the king decided
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  Speaker 1: his day, which was in the winter, was not a
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  Speaker 1: good time to celebrate, so he created a birthday in June,
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  Speaker 1: and to this day that is when the monarch officially
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  Speaker 1: celebrates their birthday. So technically they have two birthdays, one
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  Speaker 1: in June and whatever day they were born. Queen Elizabeth
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  Speaker 1: speaks fluent French. That's right. She speaks fluent French and
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  Speaker 1: a few other languages too. She would argue she's not
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  Speaker 1: fluent in them, but people say she's really really good.
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  Speaker 1: Also too, we know that she loves her coreg She's
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  Speaker 1: she has owned over thirty during her reign, thirty different
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  Speaker 1: Corgi is. Her very first one though, was called Susan,
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  Speaker 1: and it was a gift on her eighteenth birthday in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen forty four. Her last Corgi, Whisper, died in twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: Since then, she has pretty much created her own breed
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  Speaker 1: of dog called dog Is. It's across between a Corgi
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  Speaker 1: and a duck's and this happened by Chace of what
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  Speaker 1: happened is one of the Queen's Corgi is mateed mated
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  Speaker 1: with Princess Margaret's duck sound, and that's how dog Is arrived.
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing, isn't it. These dogs have become such a
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  Speaker 1: big part of her public image. The Queen technically owns
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  Speaker 1: all the swans, all the swans in the UK. Just
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  Speaker 1: a little fascinating fact. If you see a swan in
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  Speaker 1: the UK, it doesn't matter where you see it. The
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  Speaker 1: swan is technically owned by Queen Elizabeth. Obviously, there before
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  Speaker 1: the swans, or even the dog is or the cork is,
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  Speaker 1: came her first love horses. She began riding at the
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  Speaker 1: age of four years old. When she received her first pony.
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  Speaker 1: It was a Shetland named Peggy and It was a
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  Speaker 1: gift from her grandfather, King George the Fifth, when she
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  Speaker 1: was just four years old. She still loves to ride
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  Speaker 1: her horses in Windsor and Bellmorl. She also breeds horses
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  Speaker 1: and she's an expert at it. She has about horses
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  Speaker 1: that a royal studs any season. She's a brilliant, brilliant
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  Speaker 1: horsewoman and everybody in the business of horses loves to
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  Speaker 1: know her opinion. She loves together the races. She often
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  Speaker 1: puts down a little bet and she often wins. Said
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  Speaker 1: this story made me smile. Even the monarch can sometimes
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  Speaker 1: go undercover. So on a trip to Scotland she bumped
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  Speaker 1: into she met some American terrorists, and when the tourists
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  Speaker 1: asked if she lived locally, she mentioned that she did
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  Speaker 1: live in a house nearby, and when they asked if
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  Speaker 1: she'd ever met the Queen, she simply pointed to her
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  Speaker 1: security and said, no, but he has. The security guard
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  Speaker 1: conferred this story. He said, they had no idea they
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  Speaker 1: were talking to Queen Elizabeth, and I think this is
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  Speaker 1: something about her that is so wonderful. For somebody so
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  Speaker 1: rich with billions of dollars, she lived quite a modest life.
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  Speaker 1: Now don't laugh at me here because yet she lives
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  Speaker 1: in the palace. But she wasn't flashy. She went on
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  Speaker 1: vacation to Scotland. She would rather be in the country
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  Speaker 1: with her horses and her doggies than anywhere else. She
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  Speaker 1: did not like ostentatious wealth. She really didn't. I know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about a queen here and it sounds ridiculous,
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  Speaker 1: but that's how she liked liked to live. Isn't that fascinating?
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  Speaker 1: Also to the queen doesn't have to pay any taxes,
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  Speaker 1: but she chose to anyway, So the Queen volunteers to
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  Speaker 1: pay income tax and capital gain taxes since n That's
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  Speaker 1: when everything changed. When there was a fire at Windsor
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  Speaker 1: Castle and the public was really angry about having to
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  Speaker 1: pay for the renovation, she said no, no, no, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to pay, and then moving forward she did he taxes.
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  Speaker 1: People forget that. Queen Elizabeth survived an assassination attempt, so
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  Speaker 1: during the one trooping of the Color her official birthday
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  Speaker 1: shots rang out and she survived that attempt. Since then
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  Speaker 1: her security was increased considerably, but the nation was shocked
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  Speaker 1: that anyone could get this close to the Queen. And
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  Speaker 1: then Just one year later, when her security should have
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  Speaker 1: been at its peak and intruded got into her bedroom.
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  Speaker 1: A man climbed over the palaces barbed wire fence. He
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  Speaker 1: shimmied up a drain pipe, and he eventually made it
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  Speaker 1: into the Queen's bedroom. Thankfully, she was not harmed. I
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  Speaker 1: like this story. So the Queen's drink of choice is gin.
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  Speaker 1: She loves a gina. So the gin she had, she
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  Speaker 1: likes it with a slice of lemon on barroqus and
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  Speaker 1: she has one every day before lunch. She also to
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  Speaker 1: enjoys the glass of wine and the occasional glass of champagne.
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  Speaker 1: The queens on social media, so she joined Twitter in
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  Speaker 1: July two thou and nine and cent her very first
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  Speaker 1: tweet then. But since then, her page has been maintained
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  Speaker 1: by her staff. She's not on it herself. She's not
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  Speaker 1: there tweeting away herself. This hopefully gives you an insight
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  Speaker 1: into the amazing woman Queen Elizabeth. Now. I know, while
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  Speaker 1: you're listening you might question what tents we're using. I
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  Speaker 1: just still can't get over all of this. I know
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  Speaker 1: that my entire life there has never been another monarch. Never.
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  Speaker 1: I read in his statistic that people living in Britain
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  Speaker 1: have only ever known Queen Elizabeth as their monarch. Because
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  Speaker 1: she's been on the throne for so long, over seventy years,
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  Speaker 1: most people only know her. Obviously, transition is going to
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  Speaker 1: be really difficult, really painful. It's going to be something
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  Speaker 1: that we're going to be watching I think over the
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  Speaker 1: next couple of days really really closely. But I think
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  Speaker 1: thinking about what I wanted to end and say about
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  Speaker 1: this amazing lady is that she was the mother of
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  Speaker 1: the nation. That's the best way to describe what she does.
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  Speaker 1: Friends of mine, American friends always ask or what does
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  Speaker 1: she really do? And it's a difficult question to answer
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  Speaker 1: because technically she's a constitutional monarch, which means she has
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  Speaker 1: very little power. Now all the power is with Parliament. However,
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  Speaker 1: to say that is to underestimate the power that she
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  Speaker 1: really had. Her influence, her opinion is something that everybody
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  Speaker 1: listened to. I doubt Charles will have that gravitas. He won't.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he will get it over time, but after all
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  Speaker 1: those years, she is somebody who we all listen to,
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  Speaker 1: who will be deeply, deeply, deeply missed, and somebody who
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  Speaker 1: really was, really was the mother of thing. It's not
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  Speaker 1: even nice with ra