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TRIBUTE, MOURNING AND MEMORIES. TODAY A FINAL FAREWELL TO PRINCE PHILIP. THE LONGEST-SERVING BRITISH CONSERGEANT SORT -- CONSORT IN HISTORY. PATRIARCH TO A FAMILY NOW GATHERED TO SAY GOOD-BYE. THE CEREMONY SUBDUED BY THE PANDEMIC, NOW QUIET AS THE PRINCE HAD WANTED. >> MY DEAR PAPA WAS A VERY SPECIAL PERSON. HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN OUR FATHER, GRANDFATHER, FATHER-IN-LAW. BUT HE MEANT SO MUCH TO SO MANY OTHER PEOPLE. >> A LIFE DEFINED BY SERVICE, BY SUPPORT FOR HIS QUEEN AND LOVE FOR HIS COUNTRY AND COMMONWEALTH. TODAY HONOUR. THIS IS THE FUNERAL FOR PRINCE PHILIP. THIS IS A LIVE LOOK AT WINDSOR CASTLE RIGHT NOW. A MERCIFULLY WARM, SUNNY, SPRING DAY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. THIS IS WHERE PRINCE PHILIP'S FUNERAL IS BEING HELD. IT'S THE ROYAL FAMILY'S HEART. NORMALLY WINDSOR IS A PLACE TO GATHER, IT WAS THE PLACE WHERE THE QUEEN AND PRINCE PHILIP QUARANTINED FOR MONTHS. AND WHERE THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH ULTIMATELY DIED. TODAY FUNERAL IS MUCH SMALLER THAN ORIGINALLY PLANNED, AS EVERYONE CAN UNDERSTAND, GIVEN THE MOMENT WE'RE IN NOW. THE PUBLIC HAVE BEEN POINTEDLY ASK TO WATCH AND LISTEN, BUT NOT GATHER. GOOD MORNING. I'M ADRIENNE ARSENAULT. WELCOME TO THE SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE FUNERAL FOR PRINCE PHILIP. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH DIED A WEEK AGO FRIDAY AT THE AGE OF 99. HIS FUNERAL HAS BEEN PLANNED FOR YEARS. HIS WISHES FUNDAMENTAL TO MUCH OF WHAT YOU'RE ABOUT TO SEE. THE PANDEMIC, OF COURSE, HAS INTERVENED. SO WHAT WILL HAPPEN TODAY WILL BE A SCALED-BACK VERSION OF THE ORIGINAL PLAN. VERY FOCUSED ON HIS FAMILY AND HIS MILITARY TIES. IT WILL BEGIN WITH A FAMILY PROCESSION FROM WINDSOR CASTLE TO ST. GEORGE'S , JUST A FEW MINUTES AWAY. NORMALLY THIS IS THROUGH THE STREETS OF LONDON. ALL OF THIS IS DUE TO BEGIN IN HALF AN HOUR'S TIME. LET'S HEAD NOW TO RENEE FILIPPONE WHO IS IN WINDSOR. RENEE, WE'RE SEEING SOME OF THE MILITARY BANDS AND WE'RE SEE SOME OF THE BRANCHES OF THE MILITARY, TO WHICH HE WAS VERY ATTACHED. CAN YOU HELP US UNDERSTAND WHAT WE'RE GOING TO SEE OVER THE NEXT HOUR, LEADING UP TO THE CEREMONY? >> Reporter: AS YOU MENTIONED, WE'VE BEEN SEEING THE MILITARY PARADE NOW FOR THE LAST LITTLE WHILE. 730 MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES ARE TAKING PART IN THE PROCESSION, IN THE PROCEEDINGS TODAY. THE PUBLIC IS NOT INVITED AGAIN BECAUSE OF COVID RESTRICTIONS. BUT THE DUKE HIMSELF REALLY HAS HIS FINGER ON HIS OWN FUNERAL. HE PLANNED A LOT OF IT. HERE'S A LOOK AT HOW THINGS UNFOLD OVER THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. THE MILITARY MEMBERS IN PROCESSION WILL ARRIVE AT THE QUADRANGLE. STARTED DESIGNING THE LAND ROVER 18 YEARS AGO. BEHIND THEM THE LINE EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT, PRINCE WILLIAM AND PRINCE HARRY, WHO ARE SEPARATED BY PETER PHILLIPS, THE SON OF PRINCESS ANNE. BEHIND THEM WILL BE THE QUEEN AND THE STATE BENTLEY. SHE'LL FOLLOW WITH HER LADY-IN-WAITING IN THE WAR CAR WITH HER AND MASKED WE'RE TOLD. AND THE PROCESSION FROM THE CASTLE TO THE CHAPEL WILL TAKE A TOTAL OF EIGHT MINUTES. THERE WILL BE A LOT OF CEREMONY INVOLVED IN THAT. THE QUEEN WILL GET OUT FIRST AND MEET MEETING WITH THE ROYAL FAMILY. ONCE THE COFFIN ARRIVES, IT WILL HEAD UP THE STAIRS AND WHEN THERE WILL BE A MOMENT OF SILENCE. THE NATION WILL PAUSE. IN FACT, WE'RE BEING TOLD WE'RE NEAR HEATHROW AIRPORT, EVEN FLIGHTS WILL NOT BE ARRIVING OR LANDING FOR THE SIX MINUTES AROUND THAT PERIOD OF TIME. >> Adrienne: SO, RENEE, I HAVE TO SAY AS WE LOOK AT SOME OF THESE PICTURES AND I LISTEN TO YOUR DESCRIPTIONS, PEOPLE IN ONTARIO ARE RESTRICTED HOW MANY PEOPLE THEY CAN BE OUTSIDE EVEN, WAITING FOR VACCINATIONS. SO IT'S A BIT UNNERVING TO LOOK AT SOME OF THE PICTURES OF PEOPLE CLOSE TOGETHER AND UNMASKED. I'M JUST CURIOUS. HOW FRONT OF MIND IS THE PANDEMIC THERE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM IN THIS MOMENT? WHAT IS THE STATUS THERE. >> Reporter: WELL, JUST LIKE EVERYONE AROUND THE WORLD, THE PEOPLE ARE WORRIED AND WATCHING. THINGS APPEAR TO BE UNDER CONTROL. THERE'S BEEN A LOCKDOWN ARK HARD LOCKDOWN IN PLACE SINCE EARLY JANUARY. THE VACCINE PROGRAMME HAS BEEN QUITE SUCCESSFUL. SO WE'RE AT A STAGE HERE WHERE THINGS ARE ACTUALLY ROLLING OUT. THIS IS THE FIRST WEEKEND SINCE THE LOCKDOWN WHERE PEOPLE ARE ALLOWED TO LEAVE THEIR HOME COMMUNITIES AND TRAVEL FOR NON-ESSENTIAL REASONS. SO IF YOU ACTUALLY LOOK AT THE CITY OF WINDSOR, WHICH, YOU KNOW, HAS BEEN QUITE QUIET DURING THE LOCKDOWN. THERE ARE LOTS OF PEOPLE THERE TODAY, NOT JUST REPORTERS, NOT JUST SECURITY AND POLICE. BUT PEOPLE VISITING THE TOWN TO GET OUT OF THE CITY OR THERE AS WELL TODAY WITH THE HOPES OF GETTING A GLIMPSE AT ONE OF THE ROYALS. >> Adrienne: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE'VE BEEN LOOKING AT THE PICTURES WITHIN THE QUADRANGLE, WHERE MUCH OF THE CEREMONY WILL BEGIN IN TERMS OF ASSEMBLING THE FAMILY AND THEN AS THE COFFIN PROCEEDS. WE'RE STILL IN THE PART OF THIS DAY WHERE IT IS LARGELY CEREMONIAL, LEADING UP TO THE MOMENT OF THE PROCESSION. RENEE, WE WILL BE BACK IN TOUCH WITH YOU THROUGHOUT THIS MORNING. THANK YOU FOR THAT. >> Reporter: YOU'RE WELCOME. >> Adrienne: AND SO AS WE MENTIONED, THE FUNERAL WILL BEGIN WITH A PROCESSION. THE DUKE'S COFFIN, CARRIED ON THE LAND ROVER THAT HE HELPED DESIGN, SOMETHING HE STARTED WORKING ON BACK IN 2003. HE GOT SO SPECIFIC AS TO ASK FOR THE PAINT COLOUR TO BE CHANGED AT THE LAST MINUTE, A FEW YEARS AGO, JUST SOMETHING THAT WAS MORE APPROPRIATE FOR THE MILITARY SERVICE. BEHIND THAT COFFIN, MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY WILL BE WALKING. THIS IS THE ROUTE WE EXPECT THEM TO TAKE. THIS IS THE ROUTE IT WILL TAKE. ALL ON THE CASTLE GROUNDS, THE COFFIN WILL DEPART AT THE STATE ENTRANCE OF WINDSOR CASTLE, FLANKED BY MILITARY PALLBEARERS. IT WILL PASS BY THE ROUND TOWER AND HEAD TO THE WEST STEPS STEP. GEORGE'S. THE ROUTE IS NOT AT ALL WHAT WAS IN THE ORIGINAL PLAN, WHICH WAS KNOWN AS OPERATION FORTHBRIDGE, TO INVOLVE MUCH OF LONDON. THIS IS THE MOMENT WE'RE ALL IN NOW. SO WINDSOR CASTLE I THINK IS, AS IS UNDERSTOOD, IS IN THE COMMUNITY OF WINDSOR. YOU CAN PROBABLY IMAGINE IT'S A PLACE WHERE ALMOST EVERYWHERE YOU TURN PEOPLE HAVE STORIES AND VERY CLOSE TIES TO THE ROYALS. MARGARET EVANS IS WITH US WITH HOW PEOPLE THERE ARE MARKING THIS DAY. >> Reporter: ADRIENNE, WE'RE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WALL BEHIND ME IS ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL WHICH IS, OF COURSE, WHERE THE FUNERAL SERVICE IS GOING TO BE TAKING PLACE. AS, YOU KNOW, BUCKINGHAM PALACE, THE BRITISH GOVERNMENTS HAVE REALLY BEEN ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO WATCH FROM HOME, THEY DON'T WANT LARGE NUMBERS BECAUSE OF THE KOFI ANNAN RESTRICTIONS. THE MOOD HERE IS VERY MELLOW. A LOT OF JOURNALISTS, A LOT OF PEOPLE OUT ENJOYING THE SUNSHINE. BUT NOT HUGE CROWDS. THE PEOPLE OF WINDSOR, OF COURSE, HAVE A VERY SPECIAL DEPLOY TO THE ROYAL FAMILY. THEY FEEL THEY'RE NEIGHBOURS. IF YOU TALK TO PEOPLE, THEY'LL HAVE TALES OF SIGHTINGS, THEY'LL TALK ABOUT SEEING PRINCE PHILIP RIDING HIS CARRIAGE WITH HIS PONIES AROUND TOWN, WELL INTO HIS 90s. OF COURSE, DURING THIS PAST YEAR, WE'VE SEEN PRINCE PHILIP AND THE QUEEN SPENDING MOST OF THE PANDEMIC HERE AT WINDSOR. AND PEOPLE SAY THAT HAS MADE THEM FEEL EVEN CLOSER TO THE ROYAL FAMILY. THERE'S GENUINE AFFECTION FROM PEOPLE HERE, AS THEY WATCH THE FAMILY TRY TO SAY GOOD-BYE TO THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, PARTICULAR CONCERN, OF COURSE, TO THE QUEEN, WHO IS SAYING FAREWELL TO HER HUSBAND OF 73 YEARS. ADRIENNE. >> Adrienne: REMARKABLE THAT YOU CONSIDER THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY IS ON WEDNESDAY. SHE WILL BE 95 YEARS OLD. IT WILL BE HER FIRST BIRTHDAY WITHOUT HER PRINCE IN 73, 74 YEARS. AS WE ARE WAITING HERE, WHAT YOU'RE SEEING IS THAT THE MILITARY UNITS AND THE MARCHING BANDS HAVE BEEN FORMING UP THEIR CONTINGENTS IN HOME PARK, WHICH IS NOT THAT FAR AWAY. SO THAT THEY CAN THEN PROCEED TO THE QUADRANGLE OF WINDSOR CASTLE, TO EVENTUALLY MOVE ON TO ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL. SO I THINK THAT ONE OF THE GROUPS YOU'VE JUST SEEN IS THE QUEEN'S GROUP, ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY. ALL OF THESE UNITS WERE CHOSEN PARTICULARLY BY THE PRINCE, BECAUSE OF HIS AFFILIATIONS WITH THEM. AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, WHEN WORD SPREAD THAT THE PRINCE HAD DIED, AN IMMEDIATE OUTPOURING OF STORIES AND MEMORIES ABOUT HIM. THEY CAME FROM RECALL OVER THE WORLD AND ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE. HE WAS KNOWN AS THIS VERY AFFABLE MAN. FORMER BBC ROYAL CORRESPONDENT HAS MANY OF THOSE STORIES AND MEMORIES. THANK YOU, WESLEY, FOR JOINING US. WE UNDERSTAND WELL THAT WINDSOR CASTLE HOLD AS SPECIAL PLACE FOR THE QUEEN. IT CERTAINLY DID FOR PRINCE PHILIP. THE SIGNIFICANCE IS ALSO RICH TO YOU. >> Interview: YES. WINDSOR CASTLE IS SUCH AN AMAZING AND REMARKABLE PLACE. THE LARGEST INHABITED CONSULATE IN THE WORLD. THE QUEEN IS THE 41st MONARCH FOR WHOM THIS IS A HOME. I'VE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH WINDSOR CASTLE ALL MY LIFE. WE USED TO COME HERE FOR PICNICS WHEN THE QUEEN GAVE ME MY O.B. IT WAS HERE. I WAS HERE THE DAY OF THE FIRE. I WAS HERE FOR THE RESTORATION. BUT THIS MEANS SO MUCH IN PHILIP'S LIFE. AMAZINGLY THIS IS WHERE HIS GRANDMOTHER WAS BORN IN 1863, IN THE PRESENCE OF QUEEN VICTORIA. HIS MOTHER WAS BORN HERE IN 1885 IN THE PRESENCE OF QUEEN VICTORIA. HIS MOTHER'S FUNERAL WAS HERE IN 1969. SO THERE HE WAS A PRINCE OF DENMARK. HE WAS, OF COURSE, LIKE HER MAJESTY THE GREAT-GREAT-GRANDCHILD OF QUEEN CONVICTION. THE FIRST ROYAL COUPLE READY TO LIVE HERE, WAS ALMOST THE MAIN HOME, SINCE VICTORIA. IT WAS SO APPROPRIATE THAT HE SHOULD DIE HERE, OVERLOOKING THE EASTERN TERRACE GARDENS, WHICH HE HAD LAID OUT. THE GREAT PARK FOR NEARLY 70 YEARS AND ALSO IN CHARGE OF SANDRINGHAM AND BALMORAL. HE WAS INNOVATIVE IN HIS TREE PLANTING. I'M TOLD THAT THE STAFF WORKING ON THE CROWN ESTATE HERE, THEY FEEL THEY WORKED FOR HIM. MANY HAVE BEEN HERE 50 YEARS. THEY WOULD SEE HIM CARRIAGE-DRIVING. SOMETHING HE DIDN'T LIKE, HE WOULD GO AROUND WITH A HAND-WRITTEN NOTE. HE WOULD GO AROUND WITHOUT NOTES. THE QUEEN DROVE DOWN TO A PART OF THE ESTATE FROGMORE GARDENS WITH THE TWO DOGS. THAT'S HER FAVOURITE RELAXATION. THIS PLACE INCREDIBLY SPECIAL. AND HE WAS SO INNOVATIVE. HE EVEN CREATED A VINEYARD HERE. STATE BANQUETS AND THEY WOULD GET ENGLISH WINE. >> Adrienne: THAT'S INCREDIBLE. AS I LISTEN TO ALL OF THIS THAT YOU KNOW, I'M CURIOUS WHAT IT IS THAT YOU FEEL? BECAUSE YOU AS A CORRESPONDENT TRAVELLED WITH THEM. YOU MUST HAVE HAD ENCOUNTERS THAT ARE RATTLING AROUND IN YOUR OWN HEAD TODAY. >> Interview: YEAH. IT'S INTERESTING. I'VE BEEN LOOKING BACK AND SUDDENLY REALIZE THAT THIS GENERATE GENTLEMAN I KNEW HIM FOR 40 YEARS. HE WAS THE CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY WHEN I WAS THERE IN LATE 1970s. HE MADE AN INCREDIBLE SPEECH IN FRONT OF A COUPLE OF HUNDRED STUDENTS, NO WRITTEN SPEECH. HE SAID I'D RATHER THINK A WOMAN HAS BEEN RUNNING THE COUNTRY FOR THE LAST QUARTER OF A CENTURY. THE DAY I GRADUATED IN 1979, I WAS AT A DRINKS RECEPTION AND TALKING TO HIM, MOTHER TERESA AND THE TORY POLITICIAN BUTLER, FORMER DEPUTY PRIME MINISTR OF THIS COUNTRY. BUTLER SAID TO DUKE OF EDINBURGH, THE DUKE SAID, OH, WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT. IT'S PROBABLY QUITE GOOD CAREER AND WHY I CAME A JOURNALIST INSTEAD. DID A MARVELLOUS TOUR OF THE CARIBBEAN WITH THE QUEEN AND THE DUKE. A THREE-WEEK TOUR IN 1994, BELIZE, THE CAYMAN ISLANDS, JAMAICA, THE BAHAMAS, BERMUDA. ONE OF THESE INCREDIBLE TOURS. YOU SAW THE ENERGY WITH WHICH THEY WENT ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS. THE PROGRAMME STARTED AT 8:00 IN THE MORNING, WENT ON UNTIL 11:00 IN THE EVENING. YOU SEE HOW INCREDIBLY FOND THEY WERE OF EACH OTHER. AMAZINGLY LITTLE SECURITY IN THOSE DAYS. SHE HAD ONE POLICEMAN, HE A POLICEMAN AND A SPARE. THEY RELIED ENTIRELY ON THE SECURITY FORCES OF THE VARIOUS COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES. SHE RELIED ON THE SECURITY AVAILABLE TO HER, JUST INCREDIBLE. ALL OF THE POLITICIANS SAID SHE'S KNOWN THE PRIME MINISTERS OF THIS COUNTRY, MICHAEL MANLY SAYING TO ME IN JAMAICA AND IMPRESSED AT HER KNOWLEDGE, THE DESIRE TO DO WALK-ABOUTS AND COMMUNICATE. IT WAS A MARVELLOUS COMPANIONSHIP. ONE MOMENT IN BERMUDA WHERE I WAS ALONE WITH THEM. I WAS SENDING MY DISPATCH BACK TO LONDON FROM THE GOVERNOR'S DESK IN BERMUDA. I BECAME AWARE THAT THERE WAS A PRESENT THROUGH THE OPEN DOOR. SUDDENLY THESE TWO ED HEADS CAME AROUND, WAVING AND TAKING APPLAUSE FOR THE REPORT I HAD SEND. IT WAS THE QUEEN AND DUKE WAVING AND SHE BECAME VERY INTERESTED IN MY FAMILY. I REMEMBER HER SAYING, WHEN WE WERE IN JAMAICA, SAYING TO ME DID YOU SEE YOUR FATHER, MR. KERR. AND I TOLD HER, YES, I HAD. AND SHE SAID DID HE SEE ME? SO I LOVED THE IDEA THAT SHE WANTED TO FEEL AND PHILIP WANTED TO FEEL THE INCREDIBLE WORK THEY WERE DOING WAS REWARDED. AND I THINK IN CANADA YOU WOULD HAVE HAD THE SAME FEELING ON THE MANY VISITS THEY MADE THERE. AND I THINK THEY MADE 23 VISITS TOGETHER, STARTED IN 1951, WHEN THEY WERE THE EDINBURGHS. AND I THINK OVER 60 VISITS THE DUKE MADE. JUST ASTONISHING. SO I THINK THAT CANADA WAS EXTREMELY CLOSE TO THEIR HEARTS, TO THE QUEEN'S PARENTS, THE FAMOUS TOUR BEFORE 19 -- BEFORE THE SECOND WORLD WAR. SO I THINK THAT -- I THINK THAT THE COMMONWEALTH -- I THINK IF ONE MEMORIAL TO THE WORLD, YES, FACES LIKE THIS. IT'S THE TREES AND THE FORESTS AND THE ENVIRONMENT. AND THE WORK WITH THE WORLD WILDLIFE FUND, THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S AWARD. I THINK ONE THING THAT WAS REAL PASSION PROJECT INTERNATIONALLY WAS THIS FREE ASSOCIATION OF NATIONS, WHICH TURNED POSSIBLY THE BAD OF EMPIRE INTO SOMETHING INCREDIBLY POSITIVE. AND, IN FACT, THERE'S THE ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECT OF THAT. BECAUSE THE QUEEN HAS THE PROJECT, THE QUEEN'S COMMONWEALTH CANOPY, WHICH IS TO RESTORE FORESTS, TO PLANT TREES ALL OVER CANADA, AS IS IN SO MANY OF THE COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES. THERE ARE TREES PLANTED BY THE QUEEN AND THE DUKE, WHETHER IT'S RIDEAU HALL OR, YOU KNOW, ANYWHERE REALLY, ONTARIO, VANCOUVER, WHEREVER THERE'S A GOVERNOR'S MANSION OR SOMETHING. YOU WILL FIND THAT THERE ARE TREES ON THESE MANY VISITS PLANTED BY THE ROYALS. SO THAT'S A RATHER GOOD MEMORIAL TO THEM. >> Adrienne: ABSOLUTELY. >> Interview: IT'S HARD TO KNOW WHERE TO STOP. >> Adrienne: INDEED. AND WESLEY KERR, I HAVE TO SAY YOUR STORIES AND YOUR EXPERIENCES ARE EXTRAORDINARY. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING THEM WITH US TODAY. >> Interview: WELL, I THINK HE WAS A VERY REMARKABLE MAN. I MEAN, HE WAS BORN A PRINCE, MARRIED A PRINCESS. BUT MADE HIMSELF INTO A GREAT MAN. AND I THINK WE REMEMBER THAT GREAT MAN TODAY. >> Adrienne: INDEED. THANK YOU, WESLEY. AND SO IF WE CAN TAKE A BREATH HERE NOW, JUST A HANDLE ON WHAT IS HAPPENING. ALL OF THE MILITARY UNITS HAVE FORMED WITHIN THE QUADRANGLE AT WINDSOR CASTLE. THE NEXT THING WE EXPECT TO HAPPEN IS THAT THE FAMILY MEMBERS, WHO ARE NOT TALKER WALK-- NOT WALKING IN THE PROCESSION, WILL GET IN THEIR CARS AND HEAD TOWARD ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL. I THINK WE'VE SEEN A COUPLE OF KEY IMAGES. YOU SAW THE LAND ROVER GO BY, THAT'S THE ONE THAT HE ROLLED UP HIS SLEEVES AND HELPED DESIGN, STARTING SOME 18 YEARS AGO, RIGHT DOWN TO THE PLACEMENT OF THE RUBBER STOPPERS AND THE BACK TO HOLD THE COPPIN, RIGHT DOWN TO THE COLOUR OF THE PAINT. AND QUITE TOUCHINGLY YOU SAW THE CARRIAGE. SO I BELIEVE WE HAVE THIS PICTURE. THERE IT IS. THAT'S ONE OF THE DUKE'S CARRIAGES. HE DESIGNED THIS AS WELL. THIS IS A MAN WHO ADORE THE SPORT OF CARRIAGE DRIVING. AS YOU HEARD SOME OF -- MARGARET EVANS IN PARTICULAR SAY HE WAS OFTEN SEEN DRIVING A CARRIAGE RIGHT THROUGH WINDSOR. THOSE ARE HIS HORSES. ON THE FRONT SEAT OF THAT CARRIAGE ARE HIS CAP AND HIS GLOVES. AND THIS IS -- THIS WILL MEAN A LOT TO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE GATHERED THERE. THE IMAGE OF HIM SO MUCH ON THE GAUGER, ON THE GROUNDS, ON A BEAUTIFUL SPRING DAY JUST LIKE THIS ONE. SO WHILE WE WATCH, THERE IT IS. THERE'S THE CAP AND THE GLOVES. LET'S BRING IN SOME FAMILIAR FACES. FORMER CBC LONDON BUREAU CHIEF ANN MacMILLAN AND DAN SNOW, LUCKY FOR US, SOMETIMES THEY COME AS A PACKAGE. DAN IS ANN'S SON. DAN, WE'VE CONSIDERED YOU AN HONOURARY CBC. YOU'VE BOTH COVERED THE ROYAL FAMILY FOR YEARS. YOU'VE MET THEM, SPENT TIME WITH THEM. I WONDER HOW YOU'RE REMEMBERING PRINCE PHILIP TODAY. ANN, MAY WE START WITH YOU. LOVELY TO SEE YOU. >> Interview: NICE TO SEE YOU, TOO,. >> Adrienne: T-ADRIENNE. I'M REMEMBERING HIM -- WE'LL WANT TO BE HERRED -- REMEMBERED AS SUPPORTING THE QUEEN. ONE OF THEM TOLD ME A REALLY INTERESTING STORY. SHE WORKED AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE AND SAID -- SHE SAID TO ME ALL OF THESE STORIES ABOUT WHAT A WONDERFUL SUPPORT HE WAS ARE ABSOLUTELY TRUE. SHE SAID THE QUEEN WAS VERY NERVOUS ABOUT DOING THOSE CHRISTMAS MESSAGES. AND SHE USED TO REALLY GET TERRIBLY WORKED UP ABOUT IT. PRINCE PHILIP WOULD GO THROUGH THE MESSAGE AND MAKE HER READ IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN UNTIL SHE WAS PROMPT. IF THERE WERE WORDS THAT DIDN'T ROLL OF HER TONGUE, HE WOULD CHANGE THEM FOR HER. HOW DILIGENT HE WAS IN SUPPORTING HIS WIFE. >> Adrienne: AND DAN, I'M CURIOUS AS WE WATCH ALL OF THE INVOLVEMENT OF ALL OF THE DIFFERENT MILITARY UNIT, CAN YOU HELP PLACE FOR US PRINCE PHILIP'S DEPLOY WITH THE MILITARY? >> Interview: YEAH. I CAN TRY. AS YOU CAN SEE, THE 700 MILITARY PERSONNEL INVOLVED FROM THE DIFFERENT ARMS OF THE BRITISH ARMED FORCES. AND ALL SORTS OF UNIFORMS AND TRADITIONS THAT ARE UNIQUE. WE SAW THE TWO SENIOR COWBOY REGIMENTS IN THE -- OF THE LIFE GUARDS THERE, THE BLUES AND ROYALS. WE'VE GOT THE RIFLEMEN. HE WAS A NAVAL MAN. DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR, HE WAS A NAVAL GUY. AND HE WORKED ALONGSIDE THE CANADIAN NAVY, WHICH MY DAD, MY GRANDPA WAS PROMISELY AN HMCS PRINCE ROBERT. SO PHILIP WOULD HAVE SERVED ALONG MANY CANADIAN SHIPS. HE SERVED IN THE MILITARY AND HE WAS THERE WHEN JAPAN SURRENDERED IN TOKYO BAY. HE -- IT WAS BOMBED INSTEAD OF HIS SHIP BY AIRCRAFT. SO HE SERVED ON THE FRONT LINES. VERY, VERY DISTINGUISHED LONG BEFORE HE EVER MARRIED THE QUEEN. I THINK THAT'S A HUGE PART OF TODAY IS THE MILITARY CONNECTION. >> AND HE GOT CANADIAN MEDALS. >> HE'S BEEN -- ACTUALLY CANADIAN MEDAL OF MILITARY MERIT AS WELL. >> IT'S ON DISPLAY IN THE -- ON THE ALTAR IN THE CHAPEL. ALONG WITH THE TWO CANADIANS, GOT TWO MEDALS ON DISPLAY TODAY. AND THEY WERE SEWED ON TO PILLOWS I'M TOLD BY SEAMSTRESS IN ST. JAMES PALACE WITH FISHING WIRE. ANYWAY, THE OTHER ONE IS THE ORDER OF CANADA, ALSO AWARDED. >> Adrienne: I SUSPECT HE WOULD HAVE LOVED THE FISHING LINE APPROACH. AS PEOPLE ARE WATCHING HERE, SOME OF THE VEHICLES HAVE ARRIVED TO CARRY THE FAMILY MEMBERS NOT IN THE PROCESSION TO ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL. I KNOW YOU ARE ALSO WATCHING WHAT IS HAPPENING. WHAT ARE YOU SEEING HERE. DAN. >> SO THESE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT FIRE THE MULTIPLE GUN SALUTES ON SPECIAL OCCASIONS, THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY AND NOW A SAD OCCASION, WHICH IS PRINCE PHILIP'S FUNERAL. BUT THEY'VE BEEN DOING THIS JOB FOR A VERY LONG TIME. THEY TRADITIONALLY GO INTO BATTLE AND UNHOOK THESE -- SORT OF MOBILE, UNHOOK THESE GUNS AND FIRE THEM AT THE ENEMY. RAPIDLY DEPLOYED. THEY KIND OF TOOK UP A CEREMONIAL ROLE. THEY WERE MADE ROYAL BY THE QUEEN'S DAD. HE ADDED HIS NAME -- THEY WERE THE HORSE ARTILLERY. HIS OWN HANDWRITING WAS USED WHEN THEY CAME TO VISIT THEM. YOU CAN USE THE DUKE GETTING INTO THE CAR AND DRIVING OFF AS WELL. >> Adrienne: IT'S NOT A VERY LONG DRIVE. THIS IS NOT THE PROCESSION THROUGH THE STREETS OF LONDON THAT HAD BEEN ANTICIPATED. BUT FROM LISTENING TO YOU, IT SOUNDS LIKE THIS HAS AS MUCH OR MORE MEANING FOR THE FAMILY IN PARTICULAR. WE WILL CHECK BACK IN WITH BOTH OF YOU. I'M VERY EAGER TO HEAR WHAT THE DAY FEELS LIKE FOR YOU AND SOME OF YOUR STORIES. I KNOW YOU'VE GOT MORE. SO WE WILL CHECK BACK IN SOON, ANN AND DAN. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >> YOU'RE WELCOME. >> Adrienne: NOW WE KNOW THAT THE QUEEN HAD A MOMENT OR RATHER PRIME MINISTER TRUDEAU HAD A MOMENT WITH THE QUEEN YESTERDAY ON THE PHONE. THEY TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THEIR MEMORIES, HIS MEMORIES OF MEETING THE FAMILY. AND REP REN -- RENEE FILIPPONE IS STANDING BY. CAN YOU TELL US MORE ABOUT THAT, RENEE? >> Reporter: PRIME MINISTER TRUDEAU SENT OUT A STATEMENT IN MEMORY OF THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH. IT READS THAT CANADIANS WERE DEEPLY SADDENED TO HEAR LAST WEEK OF THE PASSING OF THE DUKE AND THOUGHTS CONTINUE TO BE WITH HER MAJESTY AND THE ROYAL FAMILY. A IT ALSO READS HE WAS A LIFELONG MEMBER TO THE WORLD. NOW IF THIS WASN'T COVID TIMES, THE PRIME MINISTER WOULD HAVE TRAVELLED HERE FOR THIS SERVICE, ALONG WITH MANY OTHER HEAD OF STATES. THAT CLEARLY ISN'T THE CASE. THERE IS ONE CANADIAN, HOWEVER, THIS WILL BE A PART OF THE PROCESS. BRIGADIER PAUL DOYLE, I SAW HIM IN ONE OF THE SHOTS. HE'S STANDING IN FRONT OF ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL. HE WILL BE THERE WHEN THE COFFIN AND THE ROYAL FAMILY PROCESSION ARRIVES. AND HE SAW THIS AS A GREAT HONOUR. HAVE A LISTEN TO WHAT HE TOLD ME EARLIER. >> PRINCE PHILIP, IN THE SECOND WEAR, SERVED ALONGSIDE CANADIANS. AND THE SERVICE THAT HE HAD WITH THE ROYAL NAVY. BUT THEN ALSO, YOU KNOW, AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR, THE ASSOCIATION THAT HE HAD WITH THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES IS EXTREMELY LONG-STANDING. SO I REALLY SEE ME BEING THERE TO BEAR WITNESS TO THIS SERVICE THAT PRINCE PHILIP RENDERED, NOT JUST TO THE UNITED KINGDOM, BUT TO CANADA ALSO IN EVERYTHING THAT HE DID FOR US WHO SERVE IN THE MILITARY. AND I'M EXTREMELY HONOURED. I'M HUMBLED. AND IT'S A PRIVILEGE TO BE ABLE TO BE THERE FOR THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES. >> Reporter: I ALSO SPOKE TO HIM AS WELL ABOUT -- I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY. I SPOKE TO HIM ABOUT THE REHEARSALS. HE WANTED TO MAKE IT CLEAR HOW MILITARY PRECISION EVERYTHING IS TIMED RIGHT DOWN TO THE SECOND. THE PROCESSION NEEDS TO REACH THE CHAPEL JUST IN TIME FOR THAT ONE-MINUTE OF SILENCE, BEFORE THE FUNERAL SERVICE AT 3:00 P.M. BRITISH TIME. >> Adrienne: WE'RE NOT THAT FAR AWAY FROM THAT, NOW, RENEE. AS YOU'VE BEEN SPEAKING, WE'VE BEEN WATCHING PICTURES OF SOME OF THE FAMILY MEMBERS, NOT THE ONES WALKING THE PROCESSION. SOME OF THE OTHERS ARRIVING BY CAR. WE'VE SEEN PRINCESSES EUGENIE AND BEATRICE. WE WILL ALSO SEE THE DUCHESS OF CORNWALL, THE DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE, WHICH IS KATE MIDDLETON AND CAMILLA PARKER BOWLES ARRIVING AS WELL. FROM WHERE YOU ARE STANDING, WHAT ARE YOU SEEING NOW? >> Reporter: WELL, YOU KNOW, WE ARE HERE AT HOME PARK WATCHING THE BROADCAST OF THIS AS WELL. EVERYTHING IS GOING RIGHT TO ORDER. ONCE THOSE MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY, WHO AREN'T IN THE PROCESSION HAVE LEFT, THAT'S WHEN THE COFFIN, THE LAND ROVER THAT WILL CARRY THE COFFIN WILL ARRIVE. THAT'S WHEN THE NEXT STEP IN THE PROCEEDINGS WILL TAKE PLACE. THAT'S WHEN WE'RE GOING TO START SEEING MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY, WHO WILL BE BEHIND THAT COFFIN. AND FOLLOWING IT TO THE EIGHT-MINUTE JOURNEY. HARRY AND WILLIAM AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY. HERE'S THE LAND ROVER. AS YOU MENTIONED, HE STARTED THE DESIGN ON THIS 18 YEARS AGO. AND IT'S IN A MILITARY COLOUR, BECAUSE THAT'S REALLY WHAT HE WANTED IT TO BE. >> Adrienne: AS YOU'RE SEEING, EAR -- WE'RE SEEING THE GLEAMING LAND ROVER TO PICK UP THE COFFIN. ONCE THE PALLBEARERS, MADE UP OF PARTICULARLY CHOSEN MEMBERS OF DIFFERENT MILITARY UNITS, PLACED THE COFFIN ON THE LAND ROVER, IT WILL BEGIN THAT SLOW PROCESSION. THAT'S WHEN WE WILL SEE SOME OTHER MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY. I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY, RENEE, THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HE WANTED IN THE SENSE THAT HE WAS ENTITLED TO A DIFFERENT SORT OF FUNERAL, A MUCH GRANDER ONE. AND THERE WAS NO IFS, ANDS OR BUTS ABOUT WHAT HE WANTED. THAT WAS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. AND TO HAVE HIS COFFIN ON A LAND ROVER, YOU KNOW, HE HAS BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH THAT VEHICLE FOR SOME 50 YEARS. HE HAS DRIVEN MEMORY HIS ENTIRE DRIVING LIFE. HE'S A MAN KNOWN TO LOVE, LOVE HIS VEHICLES. LOVE TO FLY, LOVE TO GO FAST. LOVE THE MILITARY AND EVERY LITTLE DETAIL ABOUT THAT SPEAKS TO HIM. THERE IS, OF COURSE, ANOTHER VEHICLE TO HAVE STANDING BY, BECAUSE NOBODY WANTS SOMETHING TO GO WRONG WITH THAT ONE. THE PEOPLE ALONGSIDE THE LAND ROVER, AS YOU'LL SEE THROUGHOUT THIS DAY, THERE WILL BE A COMBINATION OF PEOPLE THERE. THESE ARE HIS PALLBEARERS FROM THE MILITARY RIGHT NOW. WHAT IS IT YOU WERE GOING TO SAY, RENEE? >> Reporter: I WAS GOING JUST TO MENTION THAT, YOU KNOW, ONCE WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE ROYAL FAMILY THE LAND ROVER, THE BIG MOMENT I THINK EVERYONE, YOU KNOW, IS WAITING FOR, IT'S GOING TO BE THE IMAGE THAT WILL STAND IN OUR MINDS IS WHEN THE ROYAL BENTLEY PULLS UP. HOLED UP MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY, THE QUEEN IN THE ROYAL BENTLEY WITH HER MASK ON SEATED BY HER LADY-IN-WAITING. I THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE A POIGNANT MOMENT. WE HAVEN'T SEEN HER SINCE THIS HAPPENED. AS YOU MENTIONED, THIS IS HER HUSBAND OF 70-PLUS YEARS. THE SERVICE IS GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT THAT UNWAVERING SUPPORT HE PROVIDED FOR HER. THAT FOR ME IS THE MOMENT I'M GOING TO BE WAITING TO SEE. ♪♪♪ >> Adrienne: WE'LL TAKE A MOMENT HERE, I WOULD SIMPLY POINT OUT THAT AROUND THE QUADRANGLE, IN ADDITION TO THE MILITARY UNITS, ARE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSEHOLD. SO MEMBERS OF WINDSOR CASTLE HOUSEHOLD, WHAT THEY CALL H.M.S. BUBBLE. THE PEOPLE WHO STAYED WITH PRINCE PHILIP AND THE QUEEN THROUGHOUT QUARANTINE, DID NOT LEAVE THEIR SIDES, THEY WERE WITH THEM RIGHT UNTIL THE END, TO HIS END. THEY ARE THERE TODAY TO WATCH THE MAN THEY WORKED WITH SO CLOSELY DEPART. ♪♪♪ >> Adrienne: THIS IS A GOOD MOMENT TO BRING IN SOMEONE WHO KNOWS THE FAMILY, WHO KNOWS THE STORY OF THE ROYAL FAMILY VERY WELL. ANDREW PIERCE IS A ROYAL COMMENTATOR WITH THE "DAILY MAIL." ANDREW, IT'S LOVELY TO SPEAK WITH YOU. I'M JUST CURIOUS WHAT'S ON YOUR MIND IN THIS MOMENT? >> YOU KNOW, I WAS JUST THINKING HOW PROFOUNDLY SAD THIS IS, BECAUSE WE THINK ABOUT THE GREAT ROLE PRINCE PHILIP HAS SPENT IN OUR LIVES, 73 YEARS HE WAS MARRIED TO THE QUEEN. THIS IS ALSO ABOUT THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY LOVE AFFAIR. THEY ARE -- THEY WERE THE GREATEST DOUBLE ACT IN PUBLIC LIFE WE'VE EVER SEEN. AND HOW HEARTBREAKING THIS IS GOING TO BE FOR THE QUEEN, SITTING ALONE IN A PEW IN ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL, A CHAPEL SHE LOVES VERY MUCH. THE FUNERAL NOT OF THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, BUT HER HUSBAND, HER FOUR CHILDREN. AS PRINCE ANDREW SAID, THE GRANDFATHER OF THE NATION. I KNOW SHE SPENT SOME TIME THIS MORNING JUST ALONE WITH HIM, HIS COFFIN IN THE CHAPEL HE'S IN. AND THE THOUGHTS THAT MUST BE GOING THROUGH HER MIND, WHAT AN EXTRAORDINARY 73 YEARS THEY'VE HAD TOGETHER. AND, OF COURSE, THIS FUNERAL WILL BE ABSOLUTELY PRINCE PHILIP'S, EVEN INCLUDING, OF COURSE, THE FIRM ORDER THERE IS TO BE NO SERMON, NO HOMILY. HE WANTS NO PREACHING. BECAUSE HE COULDN'T EVER STABBED THAT SORT -- EVER STAND THAT SORT OF THING. >> Adrienne: THERE'S FIVE MINUTES UNTIL THE COFFIN APPEARS, ANDREW. I'M STRUCK THAT HE IS EVERYWHERE BUT NOWHERE IN THE SENSE OF THIS. THAT HIS PRESENCE, HIS ABSENCE, YOU KNOW, I THINK MARGARET EVANS REFERRED TO HIM AS AN INVISIBLE PILLAR. IT'S FELT PRETTY HEAVILY TODAY. AND I THINK SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE SEEN HIM AS AN OLD MAN, BUT SURELY FOR THE QUEEN SHE MUST HAVE IN HER HEAD THOSE PICTURES OF HIM ASLE THIS YOUNG, TALL, BLONDE, STRAPPING YOUNG MAN. >> Interview: HE WAS A DASHING FIGURE. HE WAS HER HEART THROB. SHE FELL WILDLY, WILDLY IN LOVE WITH HIM AND WONDERFUL PHOTOGRAPHS RELEASED THROUGHOUT THE COURSE OF THE WEEK OF THEM, WHERE YOU SEE HOW HAPPY SHE IS IN HIS COMPANY. AND HOW HAPPY AND RELAXED HE IS IN HERS. IT'S BEEN A REMARKABLE DEPLOY. I THINK WE ALL WORRY ABOUT THE IMPACT IT WILL HAVE ON THE QUEEN. WILL WE SEE AS MUCH OF HER? PERHAPS NOT SO MUCH. NO TALK OF ABDICATION, THAT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN. BUT I THINK SHE WILL BE A LITTLE LOST WITHOUT HIM. HE'S THE INVISIBLE PILLAR. NOTABLY GOTTEN USED TO SEEING THE QUEEN ALONE, BUT HE WAS THERE WITH ONE FIRM HAND ON THE TELLER. HE WAS SO IMPORTANT, BECAUSE HE WAS THE ONE PERSON WHO TREATED THE QUEEN AS A HUMAN BEING AND NOT AS A MONARCH. AND SHE WAS THE ONE PERSON WHO COULD SAY TO PRINCE PHILIP, "SHUT UP." [Laughter] >> Adrienne: THAT'S A LOVELY STORY. ANDREW PIERCE, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE ARE JUST A FEW MINUTES AWAY FROM THE COFFIN APPEARING. AND KEEP IN MIND, AS WE HEAD INTO ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL, THAT THAT IS A PLACE THAT HAS SO MUCH MEANING AS WELL. THE QUEEN'S FATHER, FORMER KING, IS BURIED THERE. HER SISTER, WHO DIED 50 YEARS EXACTLY AFTER HER FATHER DIED, THE FUNERAL WAS HELD THERE IN ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL. THE QUEEN LOST HER SISTER AND THEN SIX WEEKS LATER, IN 2002, LOST HER MOTHER. SHE WAS THERE -- SHE'S BEEN THERE FOR WEDDINGS AS WELL, FOR PRINCE HARRY AND MEGHAN MARKLE, FOR THE PRINCESSES EUGENIE, I THINK SHE JUST HAD HER WEDDING THERE NOT LONG AGO. THERE'S LOTS OF FAMILIES IN THE RAFTER THE AND IN THE BONES OF THAT BUILDING FOR HER THERE. I'M WONDERING IF DAN SNOW, IF YOU CAN HELP US HERE. WE SEE MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL HOUSEHOLD THERE. SOME OF THE MEDICAL STAFF IN PARTICULAR WHO WERE TENDING TO PRINCE PHILIP. BUT WHAT ARE WE ABOUT TO SEE HERE, DAN? >> WELL, WE'VE GOT JUST AS WE LISTENED TO THE BEAUTIFUL SOUND, ONE OF THE GREATEST BRITISH COMPOSERS, ALWAYS -- SEEMS TO BE PLACED ON OCCASIONS LIKE THIS. SO POIGNANT. AND WE'RE ABOUT TO SEE THE GUESTS ARRIVE. WE'RE ABOUT TO SEE THE PALLBEARERS DO THEIR DUTY WITH THE COFFIN. AS WELL AS YOUR PREVIOUS SPEAKER SAID IT, SORT OF INTERESTING. A SPECIAL CONNECTION WITH ONE OF THEM IS A THIRD-GENERATION GUARDSMAN, WHOSE GRANDFATHER PERFORMED A SIMILAR DUTY AT KING GEORGE VI FUNERAL. WE TALK ABOUT WINDSOR AS A PLACE OF NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE, BUT THE FAMILY HAS LIVED FOR GENERATIONS AND THIS CHAPEL IS THEIR KIND OF HOUSE CHAPEL. BUT ALSO FOR THE MILITARY AS WELL. LIKE MANY MEMBERS OF THE FORCES AND PEOPLE SERVING TODAY WILL HAVE HAD ANCESTORS, CERTAINLY PALLBEARERS DOING SIMILAR THINGS ON SIMILAR DAYS. IT'S AMAZING. HISTORY IS VERY VISIBLE. I'M THE FIRST OF FOUR GENERATIONS SERVING IN THE RIFLES, THAT WE JUST HEARD ABOUT EARLIER IN THE PROGRAMME. PRINCE PHILIP HAD A PARTICULAR CONNECTION WITH. MY DAD, MY GRANDPA AND GREAT-GRANDPA IN THE UNIT. THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME MANY PEOPLE HAVE HAD FAMILY MEMBERS TAKING PART. >> Adrienne: INDEED. ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ >> Adrienne: AND ANN MacMILLAN, I'M WONDERING WHAT STRIKES YOU ABOUT THIS. YOU'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT THIS DAY AS A JOURNALIST, ABOUT THIS DAY AND THIS MOMENT. KNEW WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE? >> I IMAGINE WHEN THIS WAS CALLED A NO-FUSS FUNERAL BY THE "TIMES" NEWSPAPER LAST WEEK, I KEPT THINKING IT CAN'T POSSIBLY BE NO-FUSS. THIS IS BRITAIN. AND SURE ENOUGH. IT IS ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL TO WATCH ALL OF THESE MILITARY BANDS GOING ALONG. AND I THINK WE'RE GOING TO FIND THE PROCESSION BEHIND THE LAND ROVER EXTREMELY MOVING. YOU KNOW, ADRIENNE, YOU'VE GOT TO ADMIRE THE QUEEN. HERE SHE IS IN DEEP MOURNING OF HER BELOVED HUSBAND. SHE MADE A VERY IMPORTANT DECISION THIS WEEK. THIS IS WHAT IS SO AMAZING ABOUT THIS NEARLY 95-YEAR-OLD WOMAN. THERE WAS A FUSS ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT PRINCE HARRY WOULD BE ALLOWED TO WEAR A UNIFORM, BECAUSE HAVING LEFT THE ROYAL FAMILY, HE HAS SURRENDERED ALL OF HIS HONOURARY MILITARY LEADERSHIP. AND THEN WE WERE TOLD THAT PRINCE ANDREW WANTED TO WEAR AN ADMIRAL UNIFORM. HE'S NOT BEEN MADE A FULL ADMIRAL. THE QUEEN JUST SAID, OKAY, NO UNIFORMS. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE MEN IN SUITS. WOMEN IN DRESSES WITH MEDALS. >> Adrienne: INDEED. THIS DAY IS ABOUT PRINCE PHILIP. AS WE SEE HERE NOW, THAT IS HIS COFFIN BEING CARRIED BY HIS PALLBEARERS, LEAVING FROM THE STEWARD'S DOOR. THAT IS HIS NAVAL CAP ATOP IT. >> Adrienne: NOTHING BUT THE SOUND OF THOSE BOOTS ON THE GRAVEL. YOU SAW PRINCE PHILIP'S STANDARD, HIS OWN PERSONAL STANDARD, DRAPING THAT COFFIN WITH HIS NAVAL CAP ON THAT LAND ROVER. NEXT, WE WILL SEE THE ROYAL FAMILY. WE KNOW THEY'RE ALREADY ASSEMBLED THERE. WE'VE EVEN PRINCE CHARLES, PRINCESS ANNE, PRINCE ANDREW, PRINCE EDWARD. AND THEN THE GRANDCHILDREN. THE ELDEST GRANDCHILD IS PETER PHILLIPS. PRINCE WILLIAM, PRINCE HARRY. ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ >> Adrienne: THE QUEEN IS NOT ALONE IN THAT CAR. SHE'S JOINED BY A FRIEND, HER LADY-IN-WAITING. SHE'S BEEN WITH HER FOR A VERY LONG TIME. THE GRENADIER GUARDS BEGINS THE PROCESSION. IT WILL ONLY TAKE ABOUT EIGHT MINUTES FROM THE QUADRANGLE HERE TO ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL. ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ [BELL TOLLING] ♪♪♪ >> Adrienne: YOU CAN SEE THE MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY THERE. NO UNIFORMS. THEIR DAY COATS WITH THEIR MEDALS. PRINCESS ANNE, PRINCE CHARLES. IT'S VERY HARD NOT TO THINK OF THE LAST TIME PRINCE WILLIAM, PRINCE HARRY AND THEIR FATHER WALKED BEHIND THE COFFIN. THEY WERE JOINED THEN BY PRINCE PHILIP, WHO LED THE WAY. THIS DAY IS ABOUT HIM, BUT IT IS INEVITABLE THAT PEOPLE WILL BE LOOKING AT THOSE TWO YOUNG MEN, WHO BOTH ADORED THEIR GRANDFATHER AND HOPE THAT FROM THIS SOME DEPLOYS CAN BE REBUILT. ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ >> Adrienne: YOU WILL ON OCCASION, BY THE WAY, HEAR MINUTE GUNS. THOSE ARE FIRED BY THE KING'S TROOPS. THERE YOU GO. THAT'S ONE NOW. ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY, COMING FROM THE EAST LAWN. THAT WILL HAPPEN THROUGHOUT THE PROCESSION. [BELL TOLLING] THE BELL YOU HEARD IS THE CURFEW TOWER BELL. IT, TOO, WILL CONTINUE TO SOUND THROUGHOUT THE PROCESSION. KEEP IN MIND, EVERY CHOREOGRAPHED MOMENT THAT YOU SEE OF THIS WAS NOT DONE IN PRINCE PHILIP'S ABSENCE. IT WAS DONE WITH HIS HAND. HE WAS THE ARCHITECT AND CHOREOGRAPHER OF JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING YOU'RE SEEING HERE RIGHT NOW. ♪♪♪ [BELL TOLLING] FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE WONDERING PERHAPS WHERE THE REST OF THE FAMILY IS, WHERE THE GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN ARE, A SEPARATE ARRIVAL OF SOME OF THOSE FAMILY MEMBERS, LIKE KATE MIDDLETON, CAMILLA PARKER BOWLES, PRINCESSES EUGENIE, BEATRICE WENT INTO VEHICLES AHEAD TO ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL. THIS IS THE CHILDREN AND THE GRANDCHILDREN WHO ARE WALKING BEHIND, JOINED I WOULD SAY BY SOME OF THE MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL HOUSEHOLD, WHO WERE PARTICULARLY SPECIAL TO PRINCE PHILIP AS WELL. THEY'RE AT THE BACK OF THAT PROCESSION, JUST BEFORE THE QUEEN IN HER BENTLEY WITH HER LADY-IN-WAITING. ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ [BELL TOLLING] >> Adrienne: YOU'RE CATCHING GLIMPSES OF THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY, DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE, DUCHESS OF CORNWALL WAITING ALONGSIDE THERE. WE'RE TRYING TO SEE THE QUEEN. SHE WILL BE 95 ON WEDNESDAY. A MOMENT TO LOOK BACK AT HER FAMILY. [BELL TOLLING] ♪♪♪ >> Adrienne: SO THEY'RE ALL GOING NOW TO THE WEST STEPS, OUTSIDE OF ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL. BEAUTIFUL SUNNY DAY. IT'S A GOOD ONE FOR HIM. [WHISTLING] >> Adrienne: THAT WAS THE PIPING PARTY. SOMETHING CALLED THE STILL, WHICH WAS ASKED FOR TO HAPPEN ONLY WHEN THE LAND ROVER IS STATIONARY AT THE FOOT OF THOSE WEST STEPS. >> Adrienne: THOSE PALLBEARERS, THE BEARER PARTY ARE THE ROYAL MARINES. THOSE FLOWERS AT THE TOP OF THE CASKET WERE CHOSEN PARTICULARLY BY THE QUEEN. WE KNOW THAT AS THE CASKET GOES INSIDE, YOU'LL HEAR FROM THE PIPING PARTY AGAIN. THEY'LL PIPE SOMETHING CALLED "THE SIDE." SOON AFTER THAT THERE WILL BE A NATIONAL MINUTE OF SILENCE. NOTHING HAPPENS, NOT EVEN FLIGHTS IN OR OUT OF HEATHROW IN THAT MINUTE. THE MINUTE OF SILENCE WILL BEGIN AS SOON AS THE CASKET GETS TO THE TOP OF THE STEPS. AND WHEN THE SERVICE BEGINS, A COUPLE THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND. YOU WILL HEAR MUSIC SPECIFICALLY CHOSEN BY THE PRINCE. LISTEN IN PARTICULAR FOR THE BUGLERS OF THE ROYAL MARINES. THEY WILL BE SOUNDING SOMETHING CALLED ACTION STATIONS, WHICH IS ALL HANDS TO THE BATTLE STATIONS. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT MEANS A GREAT DEAL TO THE PRINCE. AND THIS IS WHAT HE WANTED PEOPLE TO HEAR ON THIS DAY. [WHISTLING] [CANNON FIRED] [CANNON FIRED] [MOMENT OF SILENCE] >> Adrienne: DID YOU CATCH THAT IN THE MOMENT OF SILENCE? THE ONLY SOUND OF THAT WAS THAT OF THE BIRDS OUTSIDE OF ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL. FOR A MAN WHO LOVED THE ENVIRONMENT, HE WAS THE HEAD OF THE WORLD WILDLIFE FUND. THAT'S PRETTY SPECIAL. SO AT THIS POINT WE COULD USE THE HELP HERE OF DAN SNOW. >> OKAY. >> Adrienne: AS YOU'RE WATCHING DAN, CAN YOU GO IVE US A SENSE -- CAN YOU GIVE US A SENSE OF WHAT WE SHOULD BE LOOKING FOR AND LISTENING FOR? >> Interview: WELL, THE SIMPLICITY OF IT. THERE'S NO SERMON, YOU DON'T WANT PEOPLE EXTOLLING ALL THE AMAZING THINGS THAT HE'S DONE DURING HIS LIFE. I THINK IT'S THE SYMBOLISM. THE THINGS YOU LOOK FOR, WHAT THE ROYAL HISTORIANS ARE TRAINED TO LOOK AT. WE'RE TRAINED TO LOOK AT THE SYMBOLISM, WHO IS SITTING WHERE. WHAT THE MUSIC IS. WHAT THEY WANT TO SHOW THE WORLD IN THE CASE, FOR EXAMPLE, THEY WANT TO SHOW THE WORLD CLOSE CONNECTIONS WITH CANADA. MY MOM MENTIONED OVER THE TWO DECORATIONS ON DISPLAY. ALSO I THINK THAT HAPPENS. HE BEGAN HIS LIFE BEING RESCUED, AGE 2. HE WAS RESCUED FROM A REVOLUTION IN GREECE. HE WAS SMUGGLED OUT OF A FRUIT CRATE FROM THE ISLAND ON TO A WAITING BRITISH SHIP. HE THEN SERVED THE ONE TOP CADET OF HIS YEAR, NOT ON MERIT, IN THE NAVAL COLLEGE HERE IN THE U.K. HE PROBABLY HAPPIEST TIMES OF HIS LIFE WHEN COMMAND OF THE SHIP JUST AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR. I THINK THE CENTRALITY OF THAT -- THAT WAS SO IMPORTANT. >> Adrienne: AND, DAN, IS THERE ANYTHING -- IS THERE ANYTHING THAT YOU SEE? YOU SAID WHERE PEOPLE ARE SITTING AND HOW THEY CORRESPOND WITH EACH OTHER. ARE YOU READING ANYTHING INTO WHAT YOU SEE HERE? I DON'T KNOW THAT IT MATTERS ON ONE LEVEL, IN TERMS OF THE DEPLOY. I'M THINKING ABOUT THE TWO PRINCES WHOD A DORRED THEIR GRANDFATHER. WHAT ARE YOU SEEING THERE? >> WELL, OBVIOUSLY THE ONE THING WE'RE ALREADY SEEING IS HOW IN THIS FAMILY, DUTY IS EVERYTHING. YOU PUT ON A SUIT, YOU WALK IN STEP. AND ULTIMATELY IF THE QUEEN SAYS DO SOMETHING, YOU DO IT. AND I THINK THE OTHER THING YOU'RE SEEING IS THE IMPORTANCE -- PHILIP -- SOLEMN BIDEN-HARRISMENT THE SECOND WORLD WAR. AND THE FACT THAT THOSE DESCENDANTS, HIS COUSINS ARE INCLUDED IN THE SERVICE, THE MOST INTIMATE FAMILY GROUP IMAGINABLE. ONLY A COUPLE DOZEN PEOPLE HERE. I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT. IT SAYS SOMETHING ABOUT HIS TRUE PRIVATE FEELINGS, THAT WAS SPREAD BY WAR, REVOLUTION. THE 100 YEARS THAT HE LIVED THROUGH IS THE MOST TURBULENT AND EXTRAORDINARY 100 YEARS IN HISTORY. WE DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THROUGH TRONS, D.N.A. WHEN HE WAS BORN. THIS 100 YEARS HE'S LIVED THROUGH IS SOMETHING ELSE. HE IN ONE LIFE, HE EMBODIES THAT TRANSFORMATION. >> Adrienne: INDEED. SO AS WE LISTEN TO YOU AND WE SEE THE QUEEN IN THE LOWER LEFT OF YOUR FRAME, SITTING ALONE BECAUSE -- RELATIVELY ALONE BECAUSE OF THE SOCIAL DISTANCING RULES THAT ARE NECESSARY BY THIS WRETCHED ERA EVERYONE IS LIVING THROUGH. LET'S JUST LISTEN IN FOR A MOMENT TO THE MUSIC OF THIS DAY. ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ >> Adrienne: THE SERVICE IS JUST ABOUT TO START. IT WILL BE CONDUCTED BY THE DEAN OF WINDSOR. AS YOU WILL, WE WILL JUST BE LISTENING TO IT. WE'RE NOT GOING TO INTERRUPT IT, UNTIL IT'S OVER. AND THEN WE'LL TALK ABOUT SOME OF WHAT HAS UNFOLDED THERE. >> WE ARE HERE TODAY IN ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL TO COMMIT INTO THE HANDS OF GOD THE SOUL OF HIS SERVANT PRINCE PHILIP, DUKE OF EDINBURGH. WITH GRATEFUL HEARTS, WE REMEMBER THE MANY WAYS IN WHICH HIS LONG LIFE HAS BEEN A BLESSING TO US. WE HAVE BEEN INSPIRED BY HIS UNWAVERING LOYALTY TO OUR QUEEN, BY HIS SERVICE TO THE NATION AND THE COMMONWEALTH, BY HIS COURAGE, FORTITUDE AND FAITH. OUR LIVES HAVE BEEN ENRICHED THROUGH THE CHALLENGES THAT HE HAS SET US, THE ENCOURAGEMENT THAT HE HAS GIVEN US, HIS KINDNESS, HUMOUR, AND HUMANITY. WE, THEREFORE, PRAY THAT GOD WILL GIVE US GRACE TO FOLLOW HIS EXAMPLE AND THAT WITH OUR BROTHER PHILIP, AT THE LAST WE SHALL KNOW THE JOYS OF LIFE ETERNAL. ♪♪♪ [CHOIR SINGING] ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ >> A READING FROM THE BOOK ECCLESIASTICUS LOOK AT THE RAINBOW AND PRAISE ITS MAKER. IT SHINES WITH A SUPREME BEAUTY, ROUNDING THE SKY WITH ITS GLEAMING ARC, A BOW BENT BY THE HANDS OF THE MOST HIGH. HIS COMMAND SPEEDS THE SNOW STORM AND SENDS THE SWIFT LIGHTNING TO EXECUTE HIS SENTENCE. TO THAT END THE STOREHOUSES ARE OPENED, AND THE CLOUDS FLY OUT LIKE BIRDS. BY HIS MIGHTY POWER THE CLOUDS ARE PILED UP AND THE HAILSTONES BROKEN SMALL. THE CRASH OF HIS THUNDER MAKES THE EARTH WRITHE, AND WHEN HE APPEARS, AN EARTHQUAKE SHAKES THE HILLS. AT HIS WILL THE SOUTH WIND BLOWS, THE SQUALL FROM THE NORTH AND THE HURRICANE. HE SCATTERS THE SNOWFLAKES LIKE BIRDS ALIGHTING. THEY SETTLE LIKE A SWARM OF LOCUSTS. THE EYE IS DAZZLED BY THEIR BEAUTIFUL WHITENESS, AND AS THEY FALL THE MIND IS ENTRANCED. HE SPREADS FROST ON THE EARTH LIKE SALT, AND ICICLES FORM LIKE POINTED STAKES. A COLD BLAST FROM THE NORTH, AND ICE GROWS HARD ON THE WATER, SETTLING ON EVERY POOL, AS THOUGH THE WATER WERE PUTTING ON A BREASTPLATE. HE CONSUMES THE HILLS, SCORCHES THE WILDERNESS, AND WITHERS THE GRASS LIKE FIRE. CLOUDY WEATHER QUICKLY PUTS ALL TO RIGHTS, AND DEW BRINGS WELCOME RELIEF AFTER HEAT. BY THE POWER OF HIS THOUGHT HE TAMED THE DEEP AND PLANTED IT WITH ISLANDS. THOSE WHO SAIL THE SEA TELL STORIES OF ITS DANGERS, WHICH ASTONISH ALL WHO HEAR THEM. IN IT ARE STRANGE AND WONDERFUL CREATURES, ALL KINDS OF LIVING THINGS AND HUGE SEA MONSTERS. BY HIS OWN ACTION HE ACHIEVES HIS END, AND BY HIS WORD ALL THINGS ARE HELD TOGETHER. ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪ GLORY BE TO THE FATHER ♪ ♪ AND TO THE SON ♪ ♪ AND TO THE HOLY GHOST ♪ ♪ AND AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING ♪ ♪ IS NOW AND EVER SHALL BE ♪ ♪ WORLD WITHOUT END ♪ ♪ WORLD WITHOUT END ♪ ♪ AYMEN ♪ ♪ AMEN ♪ ♪♪♪ A READING FROM ST. JOHN'S GOSPEL. MARTHA SAID TO JESUS, LORD, IF YOU HAD BEEN HERE, MY BROTHER WOULD NOT HAVE DIED. AND EVEN NOW I KNOW THAT WHATEVER YOU ASK FROM GOD, GOD WILL GIVE YOU. JESUS SAID TO HER, YOUR BROTHER WILL RISE AGAIN. MARTHA SAID TO HIM, I KNOW THAT HE WILL RISE AGAIN IN THE RESURRECTION AT THE LAST DAY. JESUS SAID TO HER, I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE. HE WHO BELIEVES IN ME, THOUGH HE DIE, YET SHALL HE LIVE, AND WHOEVER LIVES AND BELIEVES IN ME SHALL NEVER DIE. DO YOU BELIEVE THIS? SHE SAID TO HIM, YES, LORD; I BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE THE CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD, HE WHO IS COMING INTO THE WORLD. ♪ MY SOUL GIVE PRAISE UNTO THE LORD OF HEAVEN ♪ ♪ IN MAJESTY AND HONOUR CLOTHED ♪ THE ♪ HE MADE WILL NOT BE MOVED ♪ ♪ THE SEAS HE MADE TO BE ITS ROBE ♪ ♪ GIVE PRAISE ♪ ♪ GIVE PRAISE ♪ ♪ GIVE PRAISE ♪ ♪ GIVE PRAISE ♪ ♪ GIVE PRAISE ♪ ♪ GIVE PRAISE ♪ ♪ THE WATERS RISE ABOVE THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN ♪ ♪ AND FLOW DOWN TO THE VALES AND LESA ♪ ♪ AT SPRINGS WILD ASSES QUENCH THEIR THIRST ♪ ♪ AND BIRDS MAKE NEST AMID THE TREES ♪ ♪ THE TREES THE LORD HAS MADE ARE FULL OF VIGOUR ♪ ♪ THE FIR TREE IS A HOME FOR STORKS ♪ ♪ WILD GOATS FIND REFUGE IN THE HILLS ♪ ♪ FROM FAUXES -- THE FOES ♪ ♪ THE CONIES SHELTER IN THE ROCKS ♪ ♪ MY SOUL GIVE PRAISE UNTO THE LORD OF HEAVEN ♪ ♪ IN MAJESTY AND HONOUR CLOTHED ♪ ♪ THE EARTH HE MADE WILL NOT BE MOVED ♪ ♪ THE SEAS HE MADE TO BE ITS ROBE ♪ ♪ GIVE PRAISE ♪ ♪ O LORD ♪ ♪ HOW MANIFOLD IS YOUR CREATION ♪ ♪ ALL THINGS IN WISDOM YOU PROVIDE ♪ YOU GIVE YOUR RICHES TO THE EARTH ♪ ♪ AND TO THE SEA SO GREAT AND WIDE ♪ ♪ YOU TAKE YOUR CREATURES BREATH AND LIFE IS ENDED ♪ ♪ YOUR BREATH GOES FORTH AND LIFE BEGINS ♪ ♪ YOUR HAND RENEWS THE FACE OF EARTH ♪ ♪ YOUR PRAISE MY WHOLE LIFE I WILL SING ♪ ♪ MY SOUL GIVE PRAISE UNTO THE LORD OF HEAVEN ♪ ♪ IN MAJESTY HAD HONOUR CLOTHED ♪ ♪ THE EARTH HE MADE WILL NOT BE MOVED ♪ ♪ THE SEAS HE MADE TO BE ITS ROBE ♪ ♪ GIVE PRAISE ♪ ♪ GIVE PRAISE ♪ ♪ GIVE PRAISE ♪ ♪ GIVE PRAISE ♪ ♪ GIVE PRAISE ♪ ♪ LET US PRAY ♪ ♪♪♪ ♪ OUR FATHER ♪ ♪ WHICH ART IN HEAVEN ♪ ♪ HALLOWED BE THIGH NAME ♪ ♪ AND KINGDOM COME ♪ ♪ THY WILL BE DONE IN EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN ♪ ♪ GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD ♪ ♪ AND WE FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES ♪ ♪ AND AS WE FOR GIVE THEM THAT TRESPASS AGAINST US ♪ ♪ AND LIED US NOT INTO ITEM DEPORTATION ♪ ♪ BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL ♪ ♪ AMEN ♪ ♪ ENTER NOT INTO JUDGMENT WITH THY SERVANT, O LORD ♪ ♪ FOR IN THY SIGHT SHALL NO MAN LIVING BE JUSTIFIED ♪ ♪ GRANT UNTO HIM ETERNAL REST ♪ ♪ AND LET LIGHT BE PERPETUAL SHINE UPON HIM ♪ ♪ WE BELIEVE VERILY TO SEE THE GOODNESS OF THE LORD ♪ ♪ IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING ♪ ♪ O LORD, HEAR OUR PRAYER ♪ ♪ AND LET OUR CRY COME UNTO THEE ♪ >> O, MERCIFUL GOD, THE FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHO IS THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE. IN WHOM WHOSOEVER SHALL LIVE, THOUGH HE DIE AND WHOSO EVERLIVETH AND BELIEVETH IN HIM SHALL NOT DIE ETERNALLY. WHO ALSO HAS TAUGHT US BY HIS HOLY APOSTLE SAINT PAUL NOT TO BE SORRY AS MEN WITHOUT HOPE. FOR THEM THAT SLEEP IN HIM. WE MEEKLY BESEECH THEE, O FATHER, WHEN WE SHALL DEPART THIS LIFE, WE MAY REST IN HIM, AS OUR HOPE IS THIS OUR BROTHER DOTH. AND THAT AT THE GENERAL RESURRECTION IN THE LAST DAY, WE MAY BE FOUND ACCEPTABLE IN THY SIGHT, AND RECEIVE THAT BLESSING, WHICH THY WELL-BELOVED SON SHALL THEN PRONOUNCE TO ALL THAT LOVE AND FEAR THEE SAYING, COME YE BLESSED CHILDREN OF MY FATHER, RECEIVE THE KINGDOM PREPARED FOR YOU FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD. GRANT THIS WE BESEECH THEE, O MERCIFUL FATHER. THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR MEDIATOR AND REDEEMER. AMEN. >> O, ETERNAL GOD, BEFORE WHOSE FACE THE GENERATIONS RISE AND PASS AWAY, THYSELF UNCHANGED, ABIDING. WE BLESS THY HOLY NAME FOR ALL WHO HAVE COMPLETED THEIR EARTHLY COURSE IN THY FAITH AND FOLLOWING. AND ARE NOW AT REST. WE REMEMBER BEFORE THEE THIS DAY PHILIP, DUKE OF EDINBURGH, RENDERING THANKS UNTO THEE, FOR HIS RESOLUTE FAITH AND LOYALTY, FOR HIS HIGH SENSE OF DUTY AND INTEGRITY, FOR HIS LIFE OF SERVICE TO THE NATION AND COMMONWEALTH. AND FOR THE COURAGE AND INSPIRATION OF HIS LEADERSHIP. TO HIM, WITH ALL HIS FAITHFUL DEPARTED, GRANT THY PEACE. LET LIGHT PERPETUAL SHINE UPON THEM, AND IN THY LOVING WISDOM AND ALMIGHTY POWER, WORK IN THEM THE GOOD PURPOSE OF THY PERFECT WILL, THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD, AMEN. >> O LORD, WHO DIDST GIVE TO THY SERVANT SAINT GEORGE GRACE TO LAY ASIDE THE FEAR OF MAN, AND TO BE FAITHFUL EVEN UNTO DEATH. GRANT THAT WE, UNMINDFUL OF WORLDLY HONOUR, MAY FIGHT THE WRONG, UPHOLD THY RULE, AND SERVE THEE TO OUR LIVES' END, THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD. AMEN. GOD SAVE OUR GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN AND ALL THE COMPANIONS LIVING AND DEPARTED, OF THE MOST HONOURABLE AND NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER. AMEN. O GOD OF THE SPIRITS OF ALL FLESH, WE PRAISE THY HOLY NAME FOR THY SERVANT PHILIP, DUKE OF EDINBURGH, WHO HAS LEFT US A FAIR PATTERN OF VALIANT AND TRUE KNIGHTHOOD. GRANT UNTO HIM THE ASSURANCE OF ANCIENT PROMISE THAT THOU WILT EVER BE WITH THOSE WHO GO DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS AND OCCUPY THEIR BUSINESS IN GREAT WATERS. AND WE BESEECH THEE THAT, FOLLOWING HIS GOOD EXAMPLE AND STRENGTHENED BY HIS FELLOWSHIP, WE MAY AT THE LAST, TOGETHER WITH HIM, BE PARTAKERS OF THY HEAVENLY KINGDOM THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD. AMEN. >> O, LORD, GOD, WHEN THOU GIVEST TO THY SERVANTS TO ENDEAVOUR ANY GREAT MATTER, GRANT US ALSO TO KNOW THAT IT IS NOT THE BEGINNING, BUT THE CONTINUING OF THE SAME UNTO THE END, UNTIL IT BE THOROUGHLY FINISHED, WHICH YIELDETH THE TRUE GLORY. THROUGH HIM, FOR THE FINISHING OF THY WORK, LAID DOWN HIS LIFE, OUR REDEEMER, JESUS CHRIST. AMEN ALMIGHTY GOD, FATHER OF ALL MERCIES AND GIVER OF ALL COMFORT, DEAL GRACIOUSLY, WE PRAY THEE, WITH THOSE WHO MOURN. THAT CASTING EVERY CARE ON THEE THEY MAY KNOW THE CONSOLATION OF THY LOVE, THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD. AMEN. ♪ GIVE REST, O CHRIST, TO THY SERVANT WITH THY SAINTS ♪ ♪ WHERE SORROW AND PAIN ARE NO MORE ♪ ♪ NEITHER SIGHING BUT LIFE EVERLASTING ♪ ♪ THOU ONLY ART IMMORTAL ♪ ♪ THE CREATOR AND MAKER OF MAN ♪ ♪ AND WE ARE MORTAL ♪ ♪ FORMED OF THE EARTH ♪ ♪ AND UNTO EARTH SHALL WE RETURN ♪ ♪ FOR SO THOU DIDST ORDAIN ♪ ♪ WHEN THOU CREATEDEST ME ♪ SAYING DUST THOU ART ♪ ♪ AND UNTO DUST SHALT THOU RETURN ♪ ♪ ALL WE GO DOWN TO THE DUST ♪ ♪ AND WEEPING, O'ER THE GRAVE ♪ ♪ WE MAKE OUR SONG ♪ ♪ ALLELUIA ♪ ♪ ALLELUIA ♪ ♪ ALLELUIA ♪ ♪♪♪ >> GO FORTH UPON THY JOURNEY FROM THIS WORLD, O CHRISTIAN SOUL. IN THE NAME OF GOD THE FATHER ALMIGHTY WHO CREATED THEE, IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST WHO SUFFERED FOR THEE. IN THE NAME OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, WHO STRENGTHETH THEE. MAY THY PORTION THIS DAY BE IN PEACE. AND THY DWELLING IN THE HEAVENLY JERUSALEM. ALLELUIA. >> THUS IT HATH PLEASED ALMIGHTY GOD TO TAKE OUT OF THE TRANSITORY LIFE UNTO HIS DIVINE MERCY OF THE LATE MOST ILCONSTITUTES TREOUS AND MOST EXALTED PRECIPITATION, DUKE OF THE DURING,ARILY OF THE MERIONETT. MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF MERIT, UPON WHOM HAD BEEN CONFERRED THE ROYAL VICKORRAN CHAIN. THE MOST EXCELLENT ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. LORD HIGH ADMIRAL OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. ONE OF HER MAJESTY'S MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL. MURDERFUL FLEET, FIELD MARSHAL IN THE ARMY AND MARSHAL OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE. HUSBAND OF HER MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, ELIZABETH THE II, BY THE GRACE OF GOD OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND, AND OF HER OTHER REALMS AND TERRITORIES, QUEEN, HEAD OF THE COMMONWEALTH, DEFENDER OF THE FAITH, SOVEREIGN OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER, WHOM MAY GOD PRESERVE AND BLESS WITH LONG LIFE, HEALTH AND HONOUR AND ALL OF WORLDLY HAPPINESS. ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ >> GOD GRANT TO THE LIVING TRACY, TO THE DEPARTED REST, TO THE CHURCH, THE QUEEN AND THE COMMONWEALTH AND ALL PEOPLE UNITY, PEACE AND CONCORD. AND TO US AND ALL GOD'S SERVANTS, LIFE EVERLASTING AND THE BLESSING OF GOD ALMIGHTY, THE FATHER, THE SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT. BE WITH YOU AND REMAIN WITH YOU ALWAYS. AMEN. ♪ GOD SAVE OUR GRACIOUS QUEEN ♪ ♪ LONG LIVE OUR NOBLE QUEEN ♪ ♪ GOD SAVE OUR QUEEN ♪ ♪ SEND HER VICTORIOUS ♪ ♪ HAPPY AND GLORIOUS ♪ ♪ LONG TO REIGN OVER US ♪ ♪ GOD SAVE THE QUEEN ♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ >> Adrienne: SO YOU SEE THE CARS START TO MOVE THERE. THE FAMILY HAS LEFT ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL THROUGH THE GALILEE PORCH TO THE MUSIC OF BACH. AND WHILE MANY PEOPLE MAY HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW, WHERE THE FAMILY IS GOING, WHAT THEY WILL BE DOING. BUCKINGHAM PALACE HAS BEEN VERY, VERY CLEAR THAT THAT IS NO ONE'S BUSINESS. THAT WHAT HAPPENS THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING, WHAT THEY DO OR DO NOT DO IS STRICTLY PRIVATE. THE PALACE WON'T ENTERTAIN QUESTIONS ABOUT IT. IT'S NOT A SUBJECT FOR DISCUSSION. AND SO, AS WE SEE THEM DRIVE OFF, THIS IS LIKELY THE LAST WE WILL SEE OR HEAR FROM THEM FOR THE NEXT -- UNTIL THEY DECIDE OTHERWISE. LET'S PUT IT THIS WAY. IT WAS AN EXTRAORDINARY SERVICE, IF YOU THINK ABOUT THE INTIMATEY, THE FORCED INTIMACY OF NOT HAVING THAT MANY PEOPLE THERE. THE MUSIC THAT YOU HEARD, FROM THE CHOIR AND THE BUGLERS, THEY WEREN'T ACTUALLY IN THE CHAPEL. THEY WERE IN THE NAVE. ALL OF THE SINGERS WERE IN THE NAVE. THE CHOIR ONLY HAD FOUR PEOPLE. IS THE RULE OF COVID IN THE UNITED KINGDOM RIGHT NOW. ONLY 30 PEOPLE ALLOWED AT A FUNERAL, WHICH IS WHY THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER, WHO WAS OFFERED A POSITION THERE, OPTED TO STAY HOME AND WATCH ON TELEVISION, AS THE ENTIRE COUNTRY WAS ASKED TO DO. AND THOSE INSIDE THAT CHAPEL WERE SEATED WITH THEIR HOUSEHOLDS, WHICH IS WHY YOU SAW THE QUEEN ALONE. PRINCE WILLIAM WAS WITH HIS WIFE, THE DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE. PRINCE CHARLES WAS WITH THE DUCHESS OF CORNWALL. AND SEATED ACROSS FROM PRINCE WILLIAM, ALSO ON HIS OWN, WAS PRINCE HARRY. IN TERMS OF WHAT YOU HEARD, EVERY ELEMENT OF WHAT YOU SAW AND HEARD HAD PRINCE PHILIP'S HAND IN IT. AND THE ONLY PERSONAL REFERENCES TO HIM CAME AT THE BEGINNING FROM THE DEAN OF WINDSOR, WHO TALKED ABOUT BEING INSPIRED ABOUT HIS UNWAVERING LOYALTY TO THE QUEEN. OUR LIVES ARE ENRICHED THROUGH THE CHALLENGES HE SET US, THE ENCOURAGEMENT THAT HE HAS GIVEN US, HIS KINDNESS, HIS RESUME -- HIS HUMOUR AND HIS HUMANITY. >> Adrienne: SO THAT WAS THE QUEEN IN HER BENTLEY, WITH HER LADY-IN-WAITING, HEADING BACK TO -- WINDSOR CASTLE. PRINCE HARRY AND PRINCE WILLIAM, KATE MIDDLETON TOGETHER AGAIN. SO NOW SHOULDER-TO-SHOULDER WITH HIS BROTHER. I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE WILL HOPE THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF SOME HEALING FOR THEM. YOU WOULD HAVE TO PRESUME THAT THAT, AS MUCH AS COVID ALLOWS, THEY'RE OFF TO POSSIBLY BREAK BREAD TOGETHER AT THIS POINT. THE MILITARY, YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED, ENTIRELY DISPERSED IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT SERVICE. AND SO AS THE SHOT PULLS BACK FROM THE GROUNDS OF WINDSOR CASTLE, AND IT BECOMES QUIET AGAIN AND THE FAMILY GO OFF TO MOURN EITHER SOMEWHAT TOGETHER OR APART, WE DO NOT KNOW. JUST CURIOUS IF WE CAN TAKE A MOMENT, VERY BRIEFLY, TO BRING IN RENEE, WHO WAS AS CLOSE AS ANY OF US COULD GET THERE AT THIS POINT. AND I'M JUST CURIOUS WHAT THAT SOUNDED LIKE AND FELT LIKE, RENEE, FROM WHERE YOU ARE. >> Reporter: WELL, THERE WAS REALLY QUITE A BIT OF SILENCE HERE, AS ALL THE CAMERAS AND REPORTERS, WE ALL STOPPED TO WATCH THIS AS WELL. WE ARE QUITE A DISTANCE -- WELL, NOT QUITE A DISTANCE, WE'RE NOT RIGHT IN TOWN WHERE THE BIG CROWDS NORMALLY WOULD HAVE BEEN GATHERED, AGAIN BECAUSE OF COVID RESTRICTIONS. THE PUBLIC WERE URGED TO STAY HOME, TO WATCH THIS ON TV, JUST LIKE WE ALL DID HERE AND YOU DID BACK IN CANADA. WE HEARD FROM THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY PREVIOUSLY AND HE SAID THIS MOMENT, THIS FUNERAL IS POIGNANT BEYOND REMEMBERING PRINCE PHILIP. IT'S POIGNANT FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM WHO LOST SO MANY LOVED ONES OVER THE PAST YEAR. 150,000 PEOPLE AND HAVEN'T HAD THE CHANCE TO HAVE PROPER FUNERALS. HE SUSPECTS PEOPLE WILL BE WATCHING THIS, SEEING SOMETHING OF WHAT THEY'VE LOST AS WELL. TEARS IN THE HOMES OF THE LIVING ROOMS ACROSS THE NATION. AND ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY LOOK AND SEE THAT MOMENT OF THE QUEEN, SITTING ALONE, LOOKING AT THE COFFIN OF THE MAN SHE LOVED FOR HER ENTIRE LIFE. >> Adrienne: THAT'S SUCH A GOOD POINT, RENEE. THAT HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO GATHER AND BURY THOSE THEY LOVE. HOW MANY OF THEM ARE LOSING THEM, EVEN AS WE SPEAK RIGHT NOW. A COLLECTIVE FUNERAL LIKE THIS, IF YOU WILL, FOR SOMEONE SO MANY IN THE WORLD RECOGNIZED. IT'S MAYBE A LITTLE BIT OF COMFORT FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE. I THINK YOU'D HOPE SO. AND THE QUEEN REMARKABLY -- ALWAYS REMARKABLY. SHE WILL BE 95 YEARS OLD ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL THE 21st. THAT IS ASTONISHING. AND I KNOW THAT THIS FUNERAL WAS LARGELY PLANNED BY PRINCE PHILIP, BECAUSE HE WAS IN COMMAND OF A LOT OF WHAT HE DID. NO DOUBT THE QUEEN'S HAND IS IN THIS AS WELL. AND THAT CHAPEL NOW HOLDS PEOPLE VERY DEAR TO HER. HER FATHER, HER HUSBAND, HER SISTER'S FUNERAL WAS HELD THERE. WINDSOR CASTLE, AS WE'VE HEARD, HAS BEEN THE HEARTH FOR THIS FAMILY. AND THEY ARE POSSIBLY RETURNING TO THAT HEARTH RIGHT NOW TO MAYBE SPEND SOME TIME TOGETHER. AND I -- I KNOW, RENEE, I GET THE FEELING THAT ALONG WINDSOR ITSELF, LIFE SLOWED DOWN. BUT PEOPLE ARE EAGER TO FEEL IT FOR THEMSELVES AGAIN, HAVING BEEN LOCKED DOWN. >> Reporter: ABSOLUTELY. THE STREETS, YOU KNOW, ARE BUSIER THAN THEY HAVE BEEN FOR MONTHS. THE COUNTRY HAS BEEN IN VIRTUAL LOCKDOWN SINCE THE BEGINNING OF JANUARY. AND ONLY THIS WEEKEND ARE PEOPLE REALLY ALLOWED TO LEAVE THEIR OWN HOMES. [Please stand by] . >> Adrienne: AGAIN, YOU ARE WITH US THROUGHOUT THIS DAY. I'D REALLY LIKE TO GET BOTH OF YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE SERVICE. ANN, MUM GOES FIRST. IF WE CAN START WITH YOU. >> OF COURSE. IT WAS BEAUTIFUL, IT WAS SIMPLE, IT WAS ELEGANT. IT MANAGED TO COMBINE POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE WITH THE DEFINITE FEELING THAT THIS WAS PARED DOWN. 30 MOURNERS ALLOWED IN THE BEAUTIFUL ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL BECAUSE OF COVID REGULATIONS, BUT SOMEHOW, IT MANAGED TO REFLECT PRINCE PHILIP'S LIFE, AND I LIKE THINKING EVERY SINGLE BIT OF THIS SERVICE, HE HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH. HE'S BEEN PLANNING IT FOR YEARS, AND IT WAS SMALLER THAN HE PROBABLY ORIGINALLY IMAGINED, BUT I'M QUITE SURE HE PREFERRED IT THAT WAY. >> Adrienne: AND DAN, DID YOU PICK UP ON SOMETHING YOU PERHAPS HADN'T ANTICIPATED? WAS THERE AN ELEMENT THAT YOU SAW THAT STRUCK YOU? >> WELL, I WAS STRUCK BY A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, WHAT AN AMAZING THING -- THIS GUY HAS BEEN TO THE BEST PLACES IN HIS LIFE. I'VE COVERED A LOT OF THOSE EVENTS FOR T.V., AND I JUST THOUGHT, HOW BRILLIANT. THAT WAS, LIKE, WATCHING THE, LIKE, GREATEST HITS, AND SO I WAS STRUCK BY THAT. I WAS STRUCK BY THE QUEEN BEING ALONE. THERE WAS NO CONCESSIONS THAT THEY WERE -- THEY WERE STICKLERS TO THE LOCKDOWN RULES, TO THE COVID RULES, AND THAT WAS PRETTY TOUGH. BUT LIKE SO MANY PEOPLE, I HAD TWITTER OPEN, AND PEOPLE ACROSS THE SPECTRUM RIGHT HERE IN THE U.K. SOMETIMES WHO AREN'T HUGELY SUPPORTIVE OF THE ROYAL FAMILY, THERE WAS A STRONG SENSE THAT THEY WEREN'T EXPECTING IT, BUT IT REPRESENTED A LOT OF FUNERALS THAT WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO HAVE THIS YEAR. IT WAS A NATION GRIEVING FOR AN AGED PRINCE, BUT ALSO, STRANGELY, GIVEN THE TIMING, FOR OVER 100,000 BEREAVEMENTS THAT WE'RE GOING THROUGH. >> Adrienne: ABSOLUTELY. AND AS WELL, IN SOME PARTS OF THIS COUNTRY. YOU KNOW, THE CASE RATES FOR THIS DISEASE ARE TERRIBLE, AND NOT JUST FOR EVERYONE WHO HAVE DIED FROM COVID. I THINK EVERYONE KNOWS SOMEONE WHO HAS LOST FAMILY MEMBERS, AND THEY HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO GET THERE. EVEN IF IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH COVID, THEY WEREN'T ABLE TO BE THERE, TO HUG THEM, TO SAY GOOD-BYE, SO THERE WAS AN ADDED LAYER TO THIS. WE TALKED ABOUT INITIALLY, YOU SAY WHEN THE QUEEN TELLS YOU TO WALK IN STEP, YOU DO. I THOUGHT THAT WAS POIGNANT AND ALSO TO SEE WILLIAM AND HARRY WALKING, BUT ALSO TO SEE THEM STANDING TOGETHER AT THE END. WAS THAT IMPORTANT? >> YEAH. I THINK THAT IS THE SHOT THAT WILL PROBABLY BE GOING AROUND THE WORLD THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. WILLIAM AND HARRY CAME OUT OF THAT CHURCH, AND THEY WERE CHATTING AS THEY WALKED BACK UP TO THE CASTLE. YEAH, IT FEELS IMPORTANT, IT FEELS IMPORTANT. AND I JUST KEEP THINKING TO MYSELF, WHAT HISTORIAN IN 50, 100 YEARS WILL BE USING THIS EVENT AS THIS FAMILY TEACHES ON THE EDGE OF THIS UNITY, AS THE QUEEN ENTERS HER LAST YEAR, AS BRITAIN FACES BREAK UP, AS SCOTLAND FACES GOING ITS OWN WAY, AND WE WRESTLE WITH THIS PANDEMIC, I AM SURE THAT EVERY SINGLE LOOK AND EVERY SINGLE SONG WILL BE PORED OVER, AND THEY WILL COME TO BE SEEN AS HEAVY WITH DRAMA AND HEAVY WITH EMOTION. >> Adrienne: YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T SEE A LOT OF PHOTOS OF THE MAN, THAT ALL OF THOSE IMAGES REST IN PEOPLE'S MEMORIES. AND ANN, I KNOW YOU, AND I KNOW YOU HAVE A FEW. CAN YOU TELL ME A PHILIP STORY, A PRINCE PHILIP STORY? >> YES, AND I'VE TOLD IT SEVERAL TIMES, AND FOR THOSE VIEWERS WHO HAVE HEARD IT BEFORE, FORGIVE ME. I ALWAYS SAY THAT PRINCE PHILIP MADE ME A SUCCESSFUL JOURNALIST. IN 1976, I WAS INVITED TO THE HIGH COMMISSION TO MEET -- OR NOT TO MEET AT THE ROYALS, BUT TO BE AT A RECEPTION WITH THEM. I WAS STANDING AROUND, MAKING MENTAL NOTES, AND SUDDENLY, THIS HANDSOME PRINCE PHILIP WALKED UP AND SAID, WHAT DO YOU DO? SO I TOLD HIM, AND I TOLD HIM THERE WERE TWO TELEVISION STATIONS IN CANADA, AND I SAID I WORK FOR CTV, WHICH I DID AT THE TIME, AND WE HAD A NICE CHAT. OFF HE WENT TO CANADA, BUT WHO SHOULD HE SEE BUT A MAN WITH A CTV BLAZER. AND HE WENT UP TO HIM AND SAID, I KNOW YOUR REPORTER IN LONDON, AND FROM THAT TIME, ADRIENNE, I COULD DO NO WRONG. >> Adrienne: WOW. THAT SORT OF STUFF DOESN'T HAPPEN ANYMORE. >>> DAN, YOU HAVE HAD SOME ENCOUNTERS? >> YEAH. THE CRAZY THING, DEEP INTO HIS 90s, HE WAS TURNING UP -- SEVERAL YEARS AGO IN WINDSOR, I SAW HIM SHOWING UP IN DUNKIRK WITH ALL THESE LITTLE FLEETS THAT WENT OVER TO RESCUE IN DUNKIRK. HE HAD A QUICK CHAT ABOUT WHAT I WAS DOING THERE. HE WAS OUT THERE, EVERY SINGLE DAY, GRINDING IT OUT, AND I GUESS, OF COURSE, THAT'S ACTUALLY WHAT KEPT THEM GOING, BECAUSE LIVING WITH THAT KIND OF PASSION AND THAT SENSE OF DUTY AND WANTING TO GET OUT THERE AND DO STUFF, I GUESS IT'S A DRIVER. >> Adrienne: AND, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE A VERY TALL MAN, DAN, AND I'M WONDERING, DID HE TEASE YOU ABOUT THAT AT ALL? >> WELL, NO, I DIDN'T GET THAT INTIMATE, SADLY. I WISH I HAD, BUT HE WASN'T -- HE WAS SORT OF -- HE WAS VERY -- I NOTICED -- BECAUSE OFTEN, IF YOU ARE VERY TALL -- HE DIDN'T. HE GAVE EVERY SINGLE PERSON AS HE WENT DOWN THIS LINE OF VETERANS AND OWNERS WHO RESTORED -- HE GAVE THEM HIS UNDIVIDED ATTENTION. HE WAITED, AND WHEN HE GETS TO YOU, HE ADDRESSES YOU. I THOUGHT HE WAS VERY, VERY DISCIPLINED. >> Adrienne: THAT IS THAT SENSE OF DUTY. I DO HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THE FUTURE OF HIS TITLE, THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH. WHAT HAPPENS TO HIS TITLE? >> SO THAT JUST SITS NOW IN ABEYANCE. IT'S LIKE WILLIAM, THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE. >> I HAVE TO CORRECT YOU. >> YEAH, GO AHEAD. >> PRINCE CHARLES WILL BE HANDED THE TITLE, EXCEPT WHEN PRINCE CHARLES DIES, THE YOUNGEST PRINCE WILL BE GIVEN THE TITLE THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH. >> Adrienne: THAT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE. >> IT DOES, BUT IT'S SORT OF ODD THAT HE HAS TO WAIT UNTIL HIS MOTHER DIES TO GET THE TITLE. >> IT TAKES A MUM TO GET AROUND THESE. >> Adrienne: IT TAKES A MUM, DAN, ESPECIALLY YOUR MUM. ANN AND DAN, AS ALWAYS, IT IS FANTASTIC TO SEE YOU. I WISH WE WERE THERE IN PERSON, AND WE WISH YOU ALL THE BEST. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH, ADRIENNE. IT'S BEEN A PLEASURE BEING ON THIS WONDERFUL PROGRAMME. >> Adrienne: TAKE CARE. >>> PRINCE PHILIP HAD A LONG AND FULFILLING LIFE. A PHOTO LIKE THIS ONE, SHARED ON INSTAGRAM, THIS IS FROM A PARIS MAGAZINE BACK IN 1957. HAVE A GOOD LOOK ON THE THAT FACE. IT IS NOT -- LOOK AT THAT FACE. IT IS NOT LOST ON ANYONE HOW MUCH PRINCE HARRY LOOKS LIKE HIS GRANDFATHER ONCE DID. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH AWARDS. THIS IS A SELF-IMPROVEMENT AWARDS. IT WAS LAUNCHED IN 1963. THOUSANDS OF CANADIANS HAVE BEEN THROUGH IT. THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US. WHAT WAS IT LIKE TO WATCH THAT SERVICE? >> IT WAS VERY HEART TOUCHING, A BEAUTIFUL SERVICE, OF COURSE, WITH A HEAVY HEART. I'M SO GLAD TO SEE THAT THE FAMILY WAS ABLE TO REUNITE TOGETHER TO BE ABLE TO CELEBRATE THE LIFE OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS, PRINCE PHILIP, AND I COULDN'T IMAGINE A BETTER DAY TO DO IT WITH THE SUN SHINING AND EVERYBODY GATHERING TOGETHER. >> Adrienne: CAN YOU TELL ME, WHAT WERE THE AWARDS LIKE? I ALWAYS WANTED TO DO IT, BUT I NEVER DID IT. CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT IT WAS LIKE? >> ABSOLUTELY. I STARTED THE AWARDS IN 2012. MY GEOGRAPHY TEACHER WAS VERY ADAMANT ABOUT STUDENTS SIGNING UP AND TO DOING IT, AND AT THAT POINT, IT WAS A TRANSITION POINT FOR ME. I WAS TRANSITIONING TO A NEW SCHOOL, TO A NEW DYNAMIC, SO I WAS VERY SHY. THE AWARD PROGRAMME ALLOWS YOU TO SET GOALS IN VARIOUS TYPES OF SKILL, ADVENTUROUS JOURNEY. THERE'S ONE POINT WHERE YOU'RE AT GOAL, YOU HAVE SOMETHING CALLED GOALS PROJECT. ONCE I DID BRONZE, I WAS VOLUNTEERING WITHIN MY SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY TO TUTOR YOUNG CHILDREN. I WENT CAMPING, WHERE I MET SOME INCREDIBLE YOUNG PEOPLE AND MENTORS ALONG THE WAY WHO ARE NOW MY LIFELONG FRIENDS ALONG THE WAY. ONCE I COMPLETED BRONZE, I SAID, I WANT TO GO TO SILVER AND SEE WHERE IT TAKES ME NEXT. ONCE I GOT TO SILVER, I STARTED DIVERSEFYING MY SKILLS, AND IT GOT TO WHERE I PUSHED MYSELF TOWARDS GOLD, AND THIS JOURNEY ALLOWED ME TO FIND MY SPARK AND FIND MY PASSIONS, AND I DON'T THINK I WOULD BE WHERE I AM TODAY IF IT WASN'T FOR THE JOURNEY. FOR MY GOLD PROJECT, I GOT TO COME UP TO OTTAWA FOR DIVERSE TIMES, WHERE I GOT TO REPRESENT MY AREA AND RIDING, AND I GOT TO SIT INTO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS CHAMBERS AND THE SENATE CHAMBERS, AND THAT'S WHERE, AGAIN, I GOT TO MEET KEY PEOPLE THAT ENCOURAGED MY PASSION FOR PUBLIC SERVICE, AND HERE I AM NOW. I GOT TO INTERN AND WORK FOR THE UNITED NATIONS, NOW WORKING FOR THE PARLIAMENT OF CANADA, SO I'M GRATEFUL TO SEE MY PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT WITH THE AWARD PROGRAMME AND THE PERSON THAT I'VE BECOME. FOR ME, IT'S NOT JUST THE THREE LITTLE PINS THAT I WEAR ON MY CHEST PROUDLY, IT'S THE FRIENDS THAT I MADE ON THE WAY, THE MENTORSHIP AND GUIDANCE THAT WE WERE GIVEN, AND THE REUNIFICATION AND CELEBRATIONS AND WE'LL REUNITE AGAIN WHEN THE PANDEMIC DIES DOWN AGAIN. >> Adrienne: I CAN'T THINK OF A BETTER AMBASSADOR FOR THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH AWARDS THAN YOU. AND DID YOU MEET PRINCE HARRY AT THE AWARDS CEREMONY? >> YES, I DID. IN 2017, I WAS INVITED TO THE AWARDS CEREMONY, AND I WAS AWARDED IN HIS PRESENCE AND GAVE THE KEYNOTE SPEECH FOR THE CEREMONY. >> Adrienne: I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HEARD OUR LAST GUEST, DAN SHOW, SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DENIED AN OPPORTUNITY TO SAY GOOD-BYE TO THOSE THEY LOVE DURING THE COURSE OF THIS PANDEMIC, AND SO THERE'S LOTS OF EMOTIONS GOING THROUGH PEOPLE'S MINDS, AND SO I'M WONDERING WHERE YOUR HEART AND MIND WERE IN THAT SERVICE? >> I DEFINITELY FELT FOR THE FAMILY BEING THAT I LOST ONE OF MY GRANDPARENTS A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO BEFORE THIS PANDEMIC HIT. I CONSIDER MYSELF LUCKY THAT MY FAMILY GOT TO BE TOGETHER AGAIN AND TO CELEBRATE HIS LIFE, SO MY HEART GOES OUT TO THE MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY AND TO THOSE WHO ARE IMPACTED BY HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS' DEATH. DEATH IS A HARD THING TO DEAL WITH, ESPECIALLY AS A YOUNG PERSON, AND I HOPE THAT THEY RECEIVE THE SUPPORT THAT THEY NEED, AND FOR ANYBODY ELSE WHO'S IMPACTED BY HIS DEATH, I HOPE THAT THEY'RE SURROUNDED BY LOVE. >> Adrienne: BOY, ALL OF US CAN ONLY HOPE TO BE SURROUNDED BY LOVE. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH AWARD RECIPIENT BIBI HAKIM FROM OTTAWA. THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU. >> Adrienne: PRINCE PHILIP'S DEATH IS HITTING SOME PEOPLE PARTICULARLY HARD. IN THE TINY SOUTH PACIFIC ISLAND OF VANUATU, PRINCE PHILIP IS REVERED. JOINING ME FOR MORE IS A FREELANCE JOURNALIST TO TELL US MORE. >> THE PEOPLE IN VANUATU HAS LIVED IN THE SAME STYLE FOR 3,000 YEARS. THEY REJECT MECHANISMS AND TECHNOLOGY, SO WHEN THEY WERE CONFRONTED WITH THE POWER AND THE MIGHT OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, MY SENSE IS THEY HAD TO FIND A WAY TO RECONCILE THEIR LIFESTYLE WITH THIS FORCE THAT WAS COMING AT THEM. THEY SAY THAT PRINCE PHILIP WAS BORN ON THE ISLAND OF TANA, THAT HE WROTE HIS HORSE DOWN TO THE SOUTH END OF THE ISLAND, HE LEAPT INTO THE SEA AND FOUND HIS WAY TO THE ISLAND OF EUROPE. HE WOOED AND WON THE HEART OF THE PRINCESS OF ENGLAND, AND THIS WAS THEIR WAY OF SAYING THAT THE BRITISH EMPIRE, THE MOST POWERFUL THING THEY KNEW, BELONGED TO THEM AS MUCH AS ANYBODY ELSE. SO I THINK THIS GAVE THEM A WAY TO RECONCILE IT ALL AND FIT IT BACK INTO A HARMONIOUS HOLE. >> Adrienne: THAT'S EXTRAORDINARY. AND WOULD IT BE YOUR SENSE THAT -- I DON'T SUPPOSE THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN WATCHING TODAY AT ALL OR I'M WONDERING HOW THEY MARKED THIS DAY? >> THEY WILL NO DOUBT BE GATHERED AT THE GATHERING PLACE IN THE VILLAGE THAT IS THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE PRINCE PHILIP MOVEMENT. ALL THE CHIEFS ARE GATHERED. THEY'VE BEEN WORKING NOW FOR SEVERAL DAYS SINCE THE ANNOUNCEMENT CAME THROUGH TO FIND THE PATH FORWARD FOR THIS BELIEF SYSTEM OF THEIRS. THEY CALL IT CUSTOM, AND IT'S A VERY DELICATE PROCESS. I WAS FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO BE ALLOWED TO ATTEND THE FIRST DAY OF PROCEEDINGS, AND BARRING THE FACT THAT, YOU KNOW, ALL THE MEN ARE WEARING VERY LITTLE, JUST A SHEATH CALLED A NUMBUS, IT WAS BEING CARRIED ON WITH ALL THE POMP AND CEREMONY OF A PAPAL CONCLAVE, THEY ARE LOOKING AT WHAT THE PASSING OF THE PRINCE MEANS FOR THEIR SENSE OF SELF AND RELIGION. >> Adrienne: AND IS IT THE CASE THAT IT'S A 100-DAY MOURNING PERIOD? >> YES, THAT'S THE STANDARD ON VANUATU. WHENEVER SOMEONE DIES, YOU OBSERVE A 100-DAY MOURNING PERIOD? >> Adrienne: AND WILL PRINCE CHARLES SUPPLANT PRINCE PHILIP OR IS THIS JUST THE END OF THE MOVEMENT? >> I BELIEVE THE MAJORITY VIEW, INCLUDING THE MAJORITY OF THE CHIEFS ON THE ISLAND OF TANA, THEY ALL ARE OF THE OPINION THAT PRINCE CHARLES WILL SUCCEED HIS FATHER. CHARLES VISITED VANUATU, AND ON THAT DAY, HE WAS GIVEN A CEREMONIAL DRINK THAT IS MILDLY INTOXICATING, AND THEY GAVE HIM A NAME IN THE TANA LANGUAGE IMPLYING VERY, VERY HIGH RANK. IT WAS AN UNUSUAL HONOUR, AND ON THAT DAY, HE WAS APPOINTED AS THE SUCCESSOR TO HIS FATHER. >> Adrienne: DAN, THIS IS SO MUCH. DAN McGARRY, A JOURNALIST ON THE ISLAND OF VANUATU. >>> I JUST WANT TO LET YOU KNOW HOW THIS DAY IS ABOUT TO UNFOLD BECAUSE, AS YOU HEARD THERE FROM DAN, THERE HAVE BEEN RECOGNITIONS ALL OVER THE WORLD, INCLUDING IN VANUATU. THERE IS A COMMEMORATION BEING HELD AT 12:00 P.M. EASTERN TIME AT CHRIST CHURCH IN OTTAWA, AND WE WILL BE CARRYING THAT PROGRAMME LIVE FOR YOU. THERE'S A MAN NAMED JOHN WATTS, WHO IS AN AWARD WINNER. HE HAS A UNIQUE TALE TO TELL. JOHN, IT'S REALLY NICE TO SEE YOU TODAY. WHAT CONNECTED YOU TO THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH AWARDS? >> WHEN I WAS IN PRISON WHEN I WAS 18 YEARS OLD, AND THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH AWARD WAS A THING THAT THEY PUT TOGETHER IN THE PRISON WITH THE IDEA THAT PRISONERS WOULD BE ABLE TO GAIN NEW SKILLS AND USE THEM IN A WAY OF REHABILITATING THEMSELVES. >> Adrienne: AND SO WHAT DID YOU DO? HOW DID THAT APPLY TO YOU? WHAT DID THAT LOOK LIKE FOR YOU IN PRISON? >> WELL, IT TOOK ME THREE YEARS TO COMPLETE ALL FOUR SECTIONS, AND THE MOST OBVIOUS THING THAT I GOT OUT OF IT WAS A SKILL OF COOKING, SO I LEARNED HOW TO COOK, AND I BECAME A SUCCESSFUL CHEF. BUT MORE THAN A SUCCESSFUL CHEF, I'M DEEPLY PASSIONATE ABOUT WHAT I DO. OTHER THAN THAT, I LEARNED ALL SORTS OF SOFT SKILLS AND PERSONAL SKILLS, LIKE TEAM BUILDING. IT BOOSTED MY CONFIDENCE, MY SELF-ESTEEM, AND I BECAME RESILIENT. WHEN I LEFT PRISON, I BELIEVED THAT I COULD ACHIEVE SOMETHING IN MY LIFE, RATHER THAN GOING BACK TO THE SORT OF LIFE THAT I HAD LIVED UP UNTIL I WAS 18. I WAS ABLE TO MAKE A NEW START FOR MYSELF. >> Adrienne: AS YOU WERE TALKING, JOHN, WE WERE SEEING SOME PICTURES OF PRINCE PHILIP GREETING THE AWARD RECIPIENTS, AND, YOU KNOW, IN SORT OF THAT CHARACTERISTIC WAY, HE'S LEANING IN AND TALKING, HIS HANDS BEHIND HIS BACK, AND I COULD SEE HIM TALKING WITH PEOPLE. DID YOU GET THE SENSE THAT HE WAS GENUINELY INTERESTED? >> YES. HE TAKES A REAL INTEREST IN WHAT HE DOES. AND HIS REAL SKILL WAS HE PUTS YOU AT EASE. WHEN I FIRST MET HIM, I EXPLAINED THAT I HAD COMPLETED THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH AWARDS IN PRISON, WHICH IS SOMETHING DIFFICULT TO DO WHEN YOU'RE IN JAIL. HE ASKED ME HOW I WAS ABLE TO DO THE EXHIBITION, AND I TOLD HIM WE WERE ABLE TO COMPLETE IT ON A DAY PASS. HE ASKED ME IF WE WERE ALL CONNECTED BY BALL AND CHAIN, AND I GOT A KICK OUT OF THAT AND NOTED HIS ABILITY TO PUT PEOPLE AT EASE. >> Adrienne: HOW IS YOUR LIFE GOING NOW? >> I ABSOLUTELY LOVE LIFE. PRECOVID, I WAS ABLE TO MENTOR KIDS THAT ARE GOING THROUGH WHAT I DID BEFORE, AND I'M ABLE TO GIVE BACK AND MAINTAINS THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO ME. >> Adrienne: THAT'S FANTASTIC, AND YOUR STORY ABOUT PRINCE PHILIP WOULD SAY THINGS TO PUT YOU AT EASE, THAT STORY ECHOS AROUND THE WORLD. ALL SORTS OF PEOPLE SAID HE HAD THIS UNCANNY ABILITY TO SAY EITHER THE RIGHT THING OR THE WRONG THING, BUT CERTAINLY SOME THING THAT WOULD SHATTER THE ICE IN A ROOM. JOHN, IT'S BEEN REALLY LOVELY TO SPEAK WITH YOU, AND CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR AWARD, AND I KNOW IT'S BEEN A WHILE, BUT IT CERTAINLY SOUNDS LIKE IT'S MADE A HUGE IMPACT ON YOUR LIFE. >> ABSOLUTELY. >> Adrienne: YOU TAKE CARE. >>> SO JUST AGAIN, WE ARE HEARING SOME DESCRIPTIONS OF WHAT IT WAS LIKE IN WINDSOR. FOR EXAMPLE, THE GUARDIAN HAS BEEN WRITING THAT THE ATMOSPHERE THAT WAS STARK. THOSE WHO TRAVELLED TO WITNESS HISTORY WERE SOMBRE, THOSE WHO LIVED THERE VIEWS IT AS SOMBRE. LOTS OF PEOPLE KNEW HIM AS THAT OLDER MAN AND FIGURE. MANY PEOPLE HAVE LOST SOMEONE LIKE THAT IN THEIR LIVES, CERTAINLY, IN THIS TERRIBLE YEAR, SO LET'S HEAD BACK TO RENEE FILIPPONE, WHO'S THERE RIGHT NOW. I'M JUST WONDERING WHAT YOU'RE THINKING, WALKING THROUGH THERE AND FEELING THE WINDS AND HEARING THE BIRDS? >> Reporter: WELL, IT'S AN ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL DAY, SUNNY SKY. I THINK FOR ME, THE BIG FIRST MOMENT WAS WHEN WE SAW THE QUEEN IN THAT STATE BENTLEY, AND THEY PLAYED THE NATIONAL ANTHEM, AND THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME WE SAW HER SINCE HER HUSBAND DIED. AND THEN, INSIDE THE CHURCH, COMPARED TO THE HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE THAT WOULD USUALLY BE THERE, AND THEN, THE QUEEN IN BLACK, ALL ALONE, LOOKING AT HER HUSBAND'S COFFIN. THOSE AREN'T IMAGES YOU WOULD SOON FORGET, BUT I WAS AMAZED HOW THEY WERE ABLE TO FILL THE CHAPEL WITH JUST FOUR PEOPLE SINGING SONGS THAT THE PRINCE HIMSELF PICKED OUT. BUT AGAIN, NO CROWDS LINING THE STREET. PEOPLE WERE ORDERED TO WATCH THIS AT HOME, AND WE'VE HEARD FROM MANY PEOPLE, THEY MAY HAVE BEEN WATCHING THIS FROM HOME WITH A TEAR IN THEIR EYE THEMSELVES, THINKING OF PEOPLE THEY LOST HERE IN THE U.K. SINCE THE PANDEMIC STARTED, NEARLY 150,000. >> Adrienne: AND AS YOU WERE WATCHING ON THE MONITOR, I KNEW THERE WERE OTHER CREW THERE AND MONITORS, WHEN PRINCE WILLIAM AND HARRY WALKED OUT AND THEY STARTED SPEAKING, HOW DID PEOPLE START RESPONDING? >> Reporter: IT WAS PROBABLY THE FIRST THING THAT WE NOTICED ON THE SCREEN. THEIR COUSIN, PETER PHILLIPS, WAS STANDING IN BETWEEN THEM. MAYBE IT WAS A DECISION BY THE QUEEN, MAYBE IT WAS A PROTOCOL, BUT WHEN THEY WALKED OUT, THEY WERE WALKING OUT, TALKING TOGETHER, KATE JUST BEHIND, ALMOST LIKE OLD TIMES, SO A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE PUTTING A LOT OF HOPE ON THIS, SEEING A MOMENT OF RECONCILIATION FOR WHAT HAS BEEN A REALLY TENSE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRINCES WILLIAM AND HARRY. >> Adrienne: LET'S HOPE FOR THE BEST. RENEE, WE APPRECIATE IT. >>> IN A MOMENT, WE WILL BE TURNING TO THE COVID RESTRICTIONS IN CANADA BECAUSE THERE IS WORRY OVER THE SURGE OF CASES HERE. AND ROUGHLY IN ABOUT 30 MINUTES, WE WILL BRING YOU A SERVICE, WHICH IS CANADA'S REMEMBRANCE OF PRINCE PHILIP, WHICH WILL TAKE AT THAT CATHEDRAL IN OTTAWA. FIRST, LET'S TAKE A BRIEF LOOK AT THE SERVICE THAT WE EXPERIENCED IN WINDSOR AS THE ROYAL FAMILY SAID THEIR GOOD-BYES TO PRINCE PHILIP. [♪♪♪] >> WE HAVE BEEN INSPIRED BY HIS UNWAVERING LOYALTY TO OUR QUEEN, BY HIS SERVICE TO THE NATION AND THE COMMONWEALTH, BUT HIS COURAGE, FORTITUDE, AND FACE. [♪♪♪]
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Channel: CBC News
Views: 1,470,308
Rating: 4.5350971 out of 5
Keywords: CBC, CBC News, Canada, Prince Philip, Funeral, St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, The Duke of Edinburgh, Special Coverage
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Length: 151min 4sec (9064 seconds)
Published: Sat Apr 17 2021
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