The queen is on all of our bank notes. She hosted a lot of garden parties in which you've done great charity or community work. The idea is just to be everywhere as a symbol of kind of civic national life. How has she prepared Charles or even Charles's sons for what comes next? There are long lived family. Queen Victoria was on the throne 60 odd years. Prince Charles for example has 149 servants, 25 of them personal staff. No maids, but there's her cooks for William and Kate. So who will make the bed and butter the bread? Well they will.
Long live the king.
This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy and Hady Mawajdeh, fact-checked by Serena Solin and Amina Al-Sadi with help from Amanda Lewellyn, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram, who also edited.
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