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Man : Normally,
it is a happy occasion when they arrive here, and
normally, when they're out the front, on days like
Trooping the Colour, VE
Day or VJ
Day. This is a tragic occasion.
Woman : Looks that the Queen is about... she is. She
is getting out of the car. While she's getting talk to
people.
Man : It's extreme unusual. This is, this is almost
unprecedented. I think, perhaps the last time the Queen
was among her people outside the palace was, was the day
the war in Europe ended.
Woman : It's really as if the public and the royal
family, the monarchy, have had a bit of a quarrel this
week and now it's being healed in some measure.
Man : Like a family spat, not unlike the spats they
acknowledged with Diana. I mean, Jenny is quite right to
say that whatever the professional
ups and downs
between the Queen and the Princess...
Alastair : They sent a copy of the Queen's speech. You
might want to scrape the frost off it first.
Man : I think the queen was very generous in
recognizing that her oldest son wasn't the easiest chap
to be married to.
Alastair : I've made a couple of suggestions to make
it sound like it came from a human being.
Tony : Yeah, all right.
Alastair : Well this old bat finally agreed to visit
Diana's coffin.
Tony : You know when you get it wrong, you really get
it wrong. That woman has given her whole life in service
to her people, 50 years doing a job she never wanted, a
job she watched kill her father. She's executed it with
honour, dignity, and as far as I can tell, without a
single blemish, and now, we're all baying for her blood!
All because she's struggling to lead the world in
mourning for someone who, who
threw
everything she offered back in her face, and who, for the least few
years, seemed committed
24-7 to destroy everything she holds
most dear!
Man : We cross, now, live, to Buckingham Palace for
the Queen's tribute to Princess Diana.
Elizabeth : Since last Sunday's dreadful news, we have
seen, throughout Britain and around the world, an
overwhelming expression of sadness at Diana's death. We
have all been trying, in our different ways, to cope. It
is not easy to express a sense of loss, since the
initial shock is often succeeded by a mixture of other
feelings, disbelief, incomprehension, anger and concern
for those who remain. We have all felt those emotions in
these last few days, so what I say to you now, as your
Queen, and as a grandmother, I say from my heart.
Cherie : Heart? What heart? She doesn't mean a word of
this.
Tony : That's not the point. What she's doing is
extraordinary.
Elizabeth : ...in good times and bad, she never
lost...
Tony : That's how to survive.
Cherie : Listen to you. A week ago, you were the great
moderniser, making speeches about the people's princess.
Now you've gone weak at
the knees.
Tony : Ssh.
Elizabeth : ...and for her devotion to her two boys.
Cherie : I don't know why I'm so surprised. At the end of the day,
all Labour prime ministers go gaga for the Queen.
Tony : What?
Elizabeth : Millions of others who never met her, but
felt they knew her, will remember her. I, for one,
believe there are lessons to be drawn from her life, and
from the extraordinary and moving reaction to her death.
I share in your determination to cherish her memory. I
hope that, tomorrow, we can all, wherever we are, join
in expressing our grief at Diana's loss and gratitude
for her all-too-short life. May those who died rest in
peace, and may we, each and every one of us, thank God
for someone who made many, many people happy.
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