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Speaker 1: This is gem Nation, Queen Jenes.

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Speaker 2: We're just saying about all the interesting traditions that are

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Speaker 2: taking place with the transferral, with the passing of one

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Speaker 2: monarch and transferring that power to another. And I've read

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Speaker 2: a really great interview about the Royal Beekeeper. I didn't

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Speaker 2: even know there was such a thing. The Royal Beekeeper

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Speaker 2: has to inform the Queen's bees that the Queen has

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Speaker 2: died and that King Charles is their new boss. This

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Speaker 2: is a tradition that dates back centuries. So he has

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Speaker 2: to inform the hives that are kept in the grounds

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Speaker 2: of Buckingham Palace Clarence House of the Queen's death and

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Speaker 2: excuse me, and he also has to tell them in

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Speaker 2: hush tones that they have a new master, King Charles Third.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's a lot of work for him, and there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of bees in those hives.

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Speaker 2: Well, he doesn't have to individually tell Jeff and Sam

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Speaker 2: and Troy, not like the Corgis. He's seventy nine. I

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Speaker 2: think he is officially retired as a beekeeper, but does

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Speaker 2: it for the Queen because he loves her, So he's

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Speaker 2: the official palace beekeeper. He traveled to Buckingham Palace and

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Speaker 2: Clarence House on Friday following the news of the queen's death,

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Speaker 2: and he carried out this superstitious ritual. So he had

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Speaker 2: to place black ribbons tied into bows over the hives,

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Speaker 2: and each highve is home to tens of thousands of bees.

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Speaker 2: Then he had to inform them what had happened. So

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Speaker 2: what he says is, I'm at the hives. Now. It's

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Speaker 2: tradition that when someone dies, you go to the hives,

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Speaker 2: you say little prayer, put a black ribbon on the hive.

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Speaker 2: And I draped the hives with this black ribbon and

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Speaker 2: a bow.

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Speaker 1: He said.

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Speaker 2: I knock on each hive and I say the mistress

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Speaker 2: is dead. But don't you go. Your master will be

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Speaker 2: a good master to you. Amazing. Well, this is what

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Speaker 2: I love because the tradition, and that's why it's a superstition.

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Speaker 2: If the custom is omitted or forgotten, and other European

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Speaker 2: countries do the same, If the custom is omitted or

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Speaker 2: forgotten and the bees are not quote put into mourning,

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Speaker 2: then it was believed a penalty would be paid, such

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Speaker 2: as the bees leaving their hive and stopping their production

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Speaker 2: of honey, or the bees die so as I said,

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Speaker 2: it's not just England. They do this in Ireland, Wales, Germany,

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Speaker 2: Netherlands is well. It's been recorded over the years, but

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Speaker 2: that's where it has been done. This has been a

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Speaker 2: tradition for hundreds and hundreds of years.

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Speaker 1: It wouldn't be wise knocking on a high though.

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Speaker 2: And I think he's probably I think he knows exactly

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Speaker 2: what he's doing. He has to let the queen know

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Speaker 2: that the other queen's gone. I love these extraordinary rituals.

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Speaker 2: We were seeing all this stuff play out.

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Speaker 1: I just see him running to the nearest lake with

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Speaker 1: a giant swarm of bees in the shape of an arrow.

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Speaker 1: Following job, I had to tell you that, Gavin and

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Speaker 1: Peter and Tony