Secrets Of The Royals - Royal Traditions - British Royal Documentary

[Music] the royal family an institution shaped by centuries of british history from state occasions to grand weddings every aspect of their lives is governed by traditions for the nation they provide spectacular moments everything the royals do has symbolism has significance we take a look through the royal rulebook from the very beginning the traditions of birth we have this tradition of royal women coming out of hospital having just given birth carrying the baby having to look all happy we examine the traditions of marriage it was always a sort of belief that the prospective bride had to be a virgin dino obviously proved to be the ideal virgin and those of grand state occasions my lords and members of the house of commons the queen does not come to the commons the last time a monarch came to the commons was charles the first and he rode his horse into the commons and tried to arrest five mps we meet the photographer who spent decades covering royal traditions i was actually witnessing history in the making there's no question about that and we shine a light on the modern royals who are shaking up the system by doing things their way i loved that megan came out and really showed her post bump we reveal the moment obama got it horribly wrong you can see her majesty sort of look at president obama as if to say oh my gosh what are you doing and the incredible letters from princess margaret to parliament when she nearly caused a crisis by breaking tradition she says i am particularly anxious that whatever may happen may not cause any embarrassment either to you personally or to the government if she knows everything is hanging on this these are the secrets of the royal traditions [Applause] royal traditions takes him to stage in our nation grand ceremonies with thousands of years of history form the very fabric of our society these royal occasions rich in pumpkin ceremony set us apart from the rest of the world the queen sees tradition sees ceremony as absolutely vital to maintaining the strength of the monarchy that to me is what makes the royal family the royal family is the kind of protocols and traditions that they've had for centuries [Music] when it comes to traditions royal marriage is steeped in them but as a result monarchs can't always marry who they want prince charles met camilla when he was young and single he was introduced to her through her flat mates camilla had been dating andrew parker bowles and then they split up in 1971 she then met prince charles apparently she said my great-grandmother was the mistress of your great-great-grandfather so i think we have something in common romance blossomed but as a royal love wasn't the only consideration charles had to have in mind there was still that tradition that whomever he married who would be the next queen of england had to be a member of nobility and had to be whiter than white there was a sort of general belief that the air to the throne should marry a virgin the pressure for prince charles and really everybody else before him was huge you know there are all these you know ticking of the boxes charles's cousin and godmother patricia mountbatten said charles never actually asked the queen for former permission to marry camilla but if he had i didn't think it would have been allowed charles no longer the young bachelor was under growing pressure to find the perfect bride enter the blue bloody teenager lady diana spencer she was young she was from a good background and it was insinuated that she hadn't had a lot of relationships before there was pressure on him to get engaged and to get married because at 33 he really had to produce an heir he'd only met diana 12 times before they got engaged so was it really about love or was he looking to fulfill his role as prince prince philip did write him a couple of notes saying you've got to make up your mind yes or no you can't keep this girl hanging around at three o'clock prince charles and lady diana appeared for the first time in public with the words of his father ringing in his ears charles bowed to tradition and quickly moved to close the deal and i i'm amazed that she's been brave enough to take me on and i suppose in love of course particularly now through the eyes of the 21st century we watch that interview and just cringe because he either didn't love her or he didn't know how to tell her he loved her in july 1981 the traditional fairy tale wedding played out in front of a global television audience of 750 million but both in fact had reservations a couple of days previously dinah had had supper with her sisters and she said i don't think i could do it i could go through with it and one of them said bad luck dutch the nickname for dinah bad luck dutch faces on the tea towel now you've got to do it and she already at that point thought that charles had a mistress in camilla parker bowles and of course she was right tradition which brought the two of them together was not enough to save the marriage which ended in separation in 1992 and finally came to a close in 1996 with divorce the traditional way of doing things just didn't work if charles had been allowed to sort of pursue who he wanted and marry who he wanted it would have saved diana a lot of heartbreak and it would have saved the whole family a lot of heartbreak coming up the very special christening gown passed down through every royal generation for over a century the honorton lace christening gown is the most wonderful symbol of royal tradition and discover how princess margaret had to choose between breaking tradition and losing everything they say to her that yes she can marry him that's fine but she must lose her title and she will lose her position [Music] royal traditions they don't just make for grand occasions full of pump and ceremony for the queen they're an important reminder of the link between god and the monarchy the queen is head of the church of england she's supreme governor of the church of england she believes in her role and believes in her role as being one for life and for any royal these traditions start from the minute you're born the proud and now rested father was the first to arrive this morning one wing of a hospital in west london has become synonymous with royal traditions when it comes to births prince george was born at the lindo wing where his father was born and his uncle was born and so many other babies have been born kent gavin covered every linderwing photocall for over 35 years starting with prince william well we went down there anything up to i think it was about two weeks prior because we weren't exactly sure the date police had to put barriers up and the roads were sealed off and we used to chain our step ladders so that they could not be moved and you wrote your name a bit on felt like that ken gavin daley mirror or whatever it was less than two days after arriving here prince princess and baby prince emerged to the cheers of the crowd it was over in minutes you know everybody shouting screaming but that of course it was front page pictures [Music] kate and william carried on the tradition of the photo call on the steps of the lindo wing whilst paying tribute to the past we saw some lovely symbols that harked back to charles and dan like when prince louis was born she wore that red dress and quite similar to what diana chose coming out with prince harry so there are nods to what has gone before tradition-wise the duchess looked uh somewhat tired but very happy in a beautiful red dress and high heels i mean we have this tradition now of women royal women coming out of hospital having just given birth carrying the baby having to look all happy because of course previous to this women had home births the queen had all of her four children at home so you wouldn't actually have seen a royal woman a royal mother for some time in public newcomer to the family megan decided this was a custom she would sidestep megan's didn't want it at all i mean she's changed them all blocked totally i don't know whether she went up did it because just changing tradition she didn't want to have that that frenzy like megan julie montgomery married into the british aristocracy and she doesn't see the appeal either listen i've had four children i can't imagine having to give birth and then have hair and makeup done put on a dress and a pair of heels and stand outside my hospital and have a photo opportunity the sussexes chose a much calmer photocore with just one photographer in the comfort of windsor castle with a more natural feel i loved that megan came out and really showed her you know her post bump your stomach does not go right back in two days later it takes a lot of time so i think for women all around it was a breath of fresh air to see her come out and look like that [Music] perhaps this modern tradition of showing the baby within days of being born can be traced back to a curious incident in the 17th century during the warming pan scandal in 1688 there were wild rumors that james ii and his wife mary of medina had not actually had a child joe the second was hated because most of the country was protestant and he was catholic his second wife mary of medina fell pregnant after not being able to have a child for a long time suspicion soared they basically said that mary of medina had a fake bump and she gave birth apparently to a son but immediately everyone said no she did not she gave birth to a stillborn child or a girl and instead it was whipped away and a new baby was brought in in the warming pan and this was a huge scandal no one believed that the baby was real and as a consequence james has pushed off his throne and that in came in addition that every royal birth after that had to be witnessed by a senior member of the government to assent that the baby was truly royal thankfully no such scandal with the more recent royal births and when it comes to traditions first on the royal baby to-do list is the christening where everything down to the gown has a story so the hornet and lace christening gown is the most wonderful symbol of royal tradition when it comes to raw babies it was the christening gown that queen victoria and prince albert had made for their first child princess victoria for her baptism in 1841 made of fine lace from hunterton in devon it was used as the christening gown for every king queen and minor royal for 163 years including our current queen for her christening in 1926 and prince charles in 1948 here is the first picture of his royal highness prince charles of edinburgh second in the line of succession just four weeks old over 30 years later he carried on the tradition with his own son granny was christened in this great great penny and i was the guy who was christened in this looks remarkably well despite it the victorian gown finally took one too many royal dribbles and then in around 2004 when prince edward and sophie campus wessex's first born lady louise was wearing it the queen noticed that it was looking quite fragile and she commissioned her dresser angela kelly to make an exact replica of it to be worn by future babies [Music] and since 2004 the gown has been worn by every royal baby right up till archie as well as the gown a big part of the christening experience is the all-important pictures with the family kent gavin was hand-picked by the palace as the only photographer for prince william's big day in 1982. on arrival at the palace i was given a list of the running order to which i could expect the photo call to take place and the first one was diana and charles and the only thing was that williams crying his eyes out but dino had the solution to that on and off during the vertical and that was to put a little finger in his mouth about three minutes have taken place before that picture was taken because of william hollering and hooting [Music] but then as it was like military clockwork the queen came out phillip queen mother just sat down perfectly posed it was all been organized and rehearsed for us but it was it was william who was stealing the show obviously because of his crying and normally he would have been present for those several pieces this particular picture was the one that most of us ran on the front page [Music] many years later william requested a copy of that picture to which i sent him and he sent me a very nice letter and reply that was the last picture on the actual running order and i walked across to the queen i said excuse me ma'am but there is one very important picture missing that is the queen mother the oldest and the youngest and she went goodness me goodness me oh we missed that how women is that and she called out mother mother and she sat down there diana handed william over and that magic yes wonderful picture and of course the queen was very grateful as well she has a whole set of all of these pictures royal babies aren't just born into the windsor family but into an institution with hundreds of years of strict traditions in the 1950s a princess hell-bent on breaking with tradition rocked the establishment when she fell in love with the wrong man when princess margaret was a young woman she felt hopelessly in love with a member of the household the equity to her father group captain peter townsend he'd been a war hero he was handsome he was charming but he was divorced in 1953 townsend proposed to the 22 year old margaret but by law as a member of the royal family under 25 margaret needed the queen's permission before she could say yes divorce was still a taboo subject the queen was forced to make very difficult decisions with her own sister as head of the church the queen felt she couldn't sanction the marriage she asked margaret to wait for two years as at 25 the mata would then be up to parliament they knew that there was every likelihood that if they bought time they might be able to sabotage margaret's relationship with townsend [Music] but two years later the tradition-breaking couple are still together and the relationship becomes a constitutional issue kate williams is at the national archives with files relating to the case which remained top secret for 50 years [Music] princess margaret's 25th birthday really begins this panic and this crisis in government this letter is amazing it's written by margaret on august 15th from balmoral about a week before she turns 25. she's writing to the prime minister and she says i'm going to tell you any personal plans for the next few months she says i am particularly anxious that whatever may happen may not cause any embarrassment either to you personally or to the government she knows everything is hanging on this my birthday on august 21st it will encourage every sort of speculation about the possibility of my marrying group captain peter townsend she says i'm not going to see him over my birthday but in october i shall go to london it is only by seeing him in this way that i feel i can properly decide whether i can marry him or not the queen knows i'm writing to you but no one else does this is a secret letter from princess margaret to the prime minister saying this is what's going to happen with the threat of this possible marriage very real the government sprung into action this letter is from the cabinet secretary norwin brooke and it's written the day after her birthday and it is advising the prime minister on what to do next and he's saying i am quite clear that this is not a matter for the prime minister alone and crucially it's not just the british government it has to be the other commonwealth governments they all have to be consulted and they will have to agree with the seemingly impossible task of gaining commonwealth consensus the government set harsh conditions for margaret they say to her that yes she can marry him that's fine but she must lose her title and she will lose her position on the civil list so with absolutely no money or no status whatsoever she really will be completely excluded for margaret just 25 the cost of what she would lose by breaking with tradition was just too much i would like it to be known that i have decided not to marry group captain peter townsend for a princess love is not straightforward in the 1950s it becomes about politics about religion and about society itself these days divorce is no longer a reason for royals not to marry for love as megan and harry showed in 2017 royal weddings however are still full of traditions and the victorians are responsible for a fair few queen victoria chose to wear a white wedding dress a tradition that has passed down through the generations up until then royals and nd commoners generally tended to wear coloured dressings and the couple chose to have a wedding cake which had a topper on it with figurines of the bride and groom there's a traditional role for the bouquet too their eldest daughter set another tradition when she picked some myrtle from osborne house for her wedding bouquet and again it's something we've seen with both william and kate and harry and megan the queen mother started her own tradition when she put her wedding bouquet on the grave of the unknown soldier in westminster abbey obviously she lost her brother in in world war one so she was probably thinking of him traditionally the royals marry in abbeys and cathedrals like saint paul's or westminster charles and camilla were forced to choose a more humble venue both charles and camilla wanted to have a civil service at windsor castle but they were slightly dismayed to find out that if they had been granted a wedding licence by the local council that means anyone could get married apply and get married at windsor castle for the next year so they scrapped that and it did mean that we had the heir to the throne getting married in a local registry office in windsor with you know before him mr mr smith and after him you know joe blogs and kathleen from down the road there's one tradition the nation and the world looks forward to at any royal wedding the wedding kiss of course is iconic nowadays so many people will be surprised to know that in fact there's only been three royal couples who've kissed on the balcony at buckingham palace there was princess diana and prince charles you know they were the ones that really started that tradition by the time fergie and andrew got married of course the crowd were waiting for the kiss and they played up to the crowd and put their hands to their ears [Applause] and then the kiss carried on coming up how the queen's traditional meetings with her prime ministers were not always ones she enjoyed famously she liked your major she didn't care for margaret thatcher how the traditional method of royal execution went horribly wrong so her head falls out of his grasp drops onto the floor rolls along i mean it's just terrific our queen the longest-serving monarch in british history for 67 years she's been front and center at every ceremonial event from trooping the color to state opening of parliament if the queen were a stick of rock and you cut it through you would read duty written on her inside as head of state it's the queen who has to give final sign-off before any act of parliament can become law and every year since 1952 she's traveled to westminster to read out the legislation of her government missing the event just twice when she was pregnant with prince andrew and then edward state opening parliament is absolutely full of tradition but each of the traditions means something so for example the queen does not come to the commons the queen is not allowed in the comments she's only allowed in the house of lords of commons for the commons for the elected uh parliamentarians and the launchers for the appointed parliamentarians hello previously black rod the messenger walks down to the commons and the doors are shut in his face you bang three times on the doors the commons are summoned [Music] mps file into the lords to hear the queen give a speech outlining the agenda for the coming parliament except for one mp that is well one of the traditions is that um an mp is held hostage at buckingham palace in order to make sure the queen gets back one of the members of parliament is taken hostage the night before and has not returned to parliament until her majesty is safely away from there probably usually an mp that the government don't like anyway while the words are read out by the queen they're written by the government my lords and members of the house of commons when you're in government the night before the state opening you are invited to a buffet supper at number 10 and then the speech is read out so that you know what's in it there are no surprises my government will legislate in the interests of everyone in our country like all traditions the ceremonies acted out in parliament are a reminder of an uneasy past between the monarchy and government you go back to the 1640s during the time of the civil war and and charles the first interference with parliament he interfered all the time and parliament didn't like being interfered with which is why they chopped his head off historically the axe was the traditional method to get rid of a king or queen and 60 years before charles the first his grandmother mary queen of scots had one of the most grisly executions of all [Music] you'd think as a royal that if you had to be executed it would be done in a very official and perfect way but not for mary queen of scots mary was executed for treason in 1587 she was given this axe man and he was so clumsy first go he just bashes the back of her head and she's heard to groan the second go the head's still attached finally at the third go he gets the head off he holds up the head to shout god save the queen by the hair but mary was wearing a wig so her head falls out of his grasp drops onto the floor rolls along i mean it's just terrific the spectators in this public execution are shocked and horrified [Applause] what a dreadful horrible public execution for this woman who had been known as one of the most beautiful queens in the world thankfully the monarchy is on more stable footing these days and as head of state the queen carries out her duty by regularly checking in with her prime minister the queen traditionally um meets with the prime minister weekly for an audience um tends to be on a wednesday they meet for between half an hour and an hour the idea is that the monarch is briefed on what's happened in cabinet from the prime minister's viewpoint queen's had a business-like relationship with her prime ministers but there's some that she's liked more than others she was very fond of harold wilson she was very fond of jim callahan famously she liked your major she's quite liked david cameron she didn't care for margaret thatcher margaret was hugely deferential she adored the monarchy and would be almost kind of crawling which illustrates a strong personality doesn't it and margaret thatcher may also have rubbed the queen the wrong way when in 1982 she took the salute from the armed forces a role usually reserved for the queen margaret wouldn't have done anything deliberately to insult the queen no no no margaret was very traditional and would have deferred immediately so there's obviously been a breakdown of communication somewhere that actually that's the queen's job on the other hand she did rather do this a little bit in her later years while the rest of parliament is on their summer break the queen hosts the prime minister in a supposedly relaxing gateway in the scottish highlands every year again another tradition the every prime minister is invited to a long weekend at balmoral where the queen spends everything [Music] foreign [Music] oh hmm [Music] summer the sitting prime minister of the day will very often go up for a long weekend with their husband or wife and spend time with the queen out there tony blair and cherie hated it cherie talks of being really embarrassed about their servants about moral unpacking all of your bags and you're putting all your clothes away and i think she famously said that she didn't want to pack contraception because she was so worried about them seeing you know seeing it in her bags i think that's where their youngest son leo was conceived you know there's a wonderful story about uh tony blair first time he was really talking to prince charles as uh he was prime minister and i was saying what what do you want us to call you and charles just looked down his nose at him and said you call me sir from garden parties to public engagements between them the royals meet thousands of subjects every year protocol helps ease the encounters and avoid awkward moments for either side etiquette and protocol is important for the royal family because it tells people what to do with the queen you would say your majesty followed by mam and yes it's mammas and ham not mamas and farm and with any other member of the royal family it would be your royal highness followed by sir or man if you're a british subject lucky enough to meet the queen you're expected to bow if you're a man and curtsy if you're a woman now for men it is not a bow from the waist at the end like you would do at the end of a stage show all it is is a gentle bob at the neck like so now for ladies you'll do a curtsy keep your hands by the side as straight back one foot behind the other and just a gentle bob at the knees you don't need to do a terribly deep grand court curtsy like theresa may or margaret thatcher did totally fine 80 to 100 years ago but today just a small curtsy will do we need to show the monarchy some respect so when her majesty has finished interacting with us if we are the ones leaving the conversation we don't show our back we don't just go yeah bye and walk off like so instead you take a few steps backwards before turning and walking away trying not to show your back [Music] sometimes even world leaders get protocol wrong as president obama demonstrated when he spoke over the national anthem during an embarrassing moment in 2011 your majesty the queen so president obama has asked everyone to stand up so far so good he says the words her majesty the queen that's all he needs to say remember it's a toast not a speech and then just in that slight pause the vitality of the special relationship the musicians start playing god save the queen you can see her majesty sort of look at president obama to this blessed plot this earth this realm and then her majesty herself breaks protocol she actually interrupts the national anthem and says oh that's very kind thank you so she deliberately breaks with the etiquette in order to be more well-mannered for the monarchy a break with protocol is rare but occasionally it attracts people who are rule breakers keen on shaking up the system princess dino was kind of the ultimate royal rule breaker really because she dragged the royal family kicking and screaming into the 20th century she definitely helped transform the monarchy and i think the the royal family we've got today especially through our boys is very much through her influence the broader award of the middlesex hospital is the only specially designed aids award in britain it was how she engaged in her charity work which was perhaps the biggest departure she was really the first royal that we saw in public hugging hugging children putting children on her lap when we did the hiv aids campaign we were tackling serious misunderstanding and prejudice we had a disease that was rampant and it was killing people in a horrible way and for which there was no cure she came she sat on the bed to somebody who was dying of aids she held their hand and it made a difference it really did but this break with tradition came at a cost by opening up more to the press and the public she grew more vulnerable to the darker side of media attention she said to me do you know ken i was coming out of harvey nichols a couple of weeks ago and i got into a taxi and two paparazzi pulled up at the lights one got off the back of the bike under the cab door and she fell into the well of the cab and he said this person raised me ahead you i've got a mortgage to pay she was in tears when she related that story to me i just felt for her [Music] behind the scenes the monarchy wasn't happy with the change diana was bringing she was viewed by many within the institution as someone who was shaking things up too much [Applause] we wanted something a bit more safe a bit more home spun and she said no these are the things that need attention these are the things that need to be talked about it wasn't just how the royal family operated that diana changed she also changed the traditional way in which royals dress [Music] designer jacques azagori played a vital role in moving diana away from traditional royal dress and transforming her into one of the biggest fashion icons on the planet i was always always excited to see her step out in my dresses there was just something about her wearing my dresses you know the princess of wales and also the process leading up to her wearing that dress was always so friendly so comfortable and exciting this is one of the first times that she kind of went a little bit modern it was i'd say probably about four inches above the knee which for a princess was very very short red was one of her strong favorites as you noticed it's got it had a little opening down the front she wanted to actually wear it to there showing a little bit of me just of course we didn't allow her to another famous dress diana wore during an important night in 1995 where she smashed a vengeful fist through every conceivable royal protocol it was the night of the bombshell panorama interview in which she made a series of startling claims including there were three of us in this marriage she called me actually two three nights before um the interview was going to go live and um she says jacques i need i need a dress i've done i've done an interview um i haven't said anything wrong um and i'd like to wear something really stunning and sexy and i took three black dresses from the shop because you know the royals are not usually able to wear black unless it's for morning but of course now she could wear any color she wanted we unzipped them out of the bag and straightaway she said that one and she wore this attending a cancer fundraiser while the interview was going out and again the dead culture on here was very low for the time her birthday was coming up in july and that's where we come to the birthday dress here she was meant to be wearing another dress for the tate centenary but i think as a thank you to me she actually wore this dress this was diana on her 36th birthday it was really a time of her breaking away from her past really the traditions the royal protocol and moving on with life as she really wanted to live it and sadly that was the last time she was seen in public with you know a full a full evening down dejack i was quite overcome on opening the parcel i'm absolutely thrilled to have been given such a beautiful dress for my birthday thank you more than i can possibly say for making this day particularly special lots of love diane coming up meghan markle's bumpy introduction to the world of royal traditions megan was criticized for one of the most minor things i've ever heard about like having a messy bun and how the royals are kick-starting new traditions fit for the 21st century when sussex royal came about it racked up over three million followers in less than 24 hours and that broke a guinness world record the british monarchy for over half a century through change and challenge they've kept alive traditions celebrating our collective past the queen has been the absolute constant she's lived through the swinging 60s the miners strike the social media age and she's still here now it's up to a new generation to bring the monarchy forward meghan markle is one of the most talked about modern royals since her introduction to the royal family in 2016 the headlines have been full of stories of her breaking traditions listen megan comes from california you know sort of really the land of the free and then all of a sudden having to move over to this country mary into the royal family there's a lot of rules and really regulations that she has to follow it must be a real shock for megan because she was this independent hollywood actress doing what she wanted essentially and now something as innocuous as her closing a car door headlines around the world she's closed her own door oh my god [Music] megan was criticized for one of the most minor things i've ever heard about like having a messy bun i mean honestly please find something else because i actually thought that messy bun was really cool making sure that warm black nail varnish i mean honestly there is no protocol on what color nail varnish a royal woman should wear [Music] if anyone's criticising megan for not wearing tights let me tell you something sarah ferguson duchess of york didn't wear tights i was at an event as minister where she came to do an opening and she turned up actually looking scruffy which is a no-no because the people who are there they come to see the magic and the style and the grace of royalty kate who stuck to the traditions rule book received the opposite criticism from megan when she was labeled robotic i get to see them privately the royals and drinks receptions and she's actually got a wicked sense of humour but i don't think kate feels that she can ever kind of let that show publicly because that's not really what's expected of her as the wife of a future monarch the young royals are creating new traditions fit for the 21st century thanks to the new digital age the social media development you know in the royal family has been a big thing in the last few years you've seen instagram accounts [Music] but when sussex royal came about it racked up over 3 million followers in less than 24 hours and that broke a guinness world record so you can see that there's definitely an appetite for people wanting to know what the rules are up to all the time and it definitely gives them much more control over the story that they want to tell for prince william being able to take back control is personal william and kate rarely allow their children to be seen in public so their presence here guarantees a media frenzy i was on a shoot with prince william we were talking about how things were regarding his mother and he said i can assure you that i will i will never ever let happen to my wife or my children to what happened to my mother kate has increasingly taken the tradition of royal photography into her own hands the royals are issuing and controlling their own images i'm not on about the public event someone about the birthdays or the special event you've got these lovely pictures that indicate issues it's taking the sting out paparazzi if you like as is tradition the monarchy will one day pass over to charles i think prince charles in many ways will be a very good sorbet monarch he'll be a lovely palette cleanser between what we have now and what we will have in the future charles i think sees the future of the british monarchy similarly to some of the european monarchies which have kind of massively slimmed down we've seen that in balcony appearances you know we see just the queen with prince charles and camilla and his sons and their spouses and unlike the queen whose opinions remain secret charles has already expressed his views in public on topics ranging from the environment to architecture charles i know that he is itching to get involved in government politics and itching to get involved in lobbying at that level but of course it's not allowed so it's going to be really interesting to see whether or not he can hold back so i could only urge you to think of your grandchildren as i think of mine and of those billions of people without a voice what he will find very hard to do would be to curb his statement of his opinions or pushing the government to do things we don't want the royals to take sides we really don't want the royals to express opinions on things whoever is on the throne and whatever they wish to express one thing is for certain these royal traditions which have been at the very heart of our nation and monarchy will remain this is what makes the united kingdom this is why we get the number of tourists we do get because we do have traditions and our traditions go back historically hundreds of years and it's important that we maintain them those editions are like the fulcrum around which the family circulates individuals come and go but the royal traditions are always there all those great british traditions will remain that is what makes the royal family the british royal family [Music] you

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Published: Tue Mar 02 2021