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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda gem Nation. Well, the coronation weekend is

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Speaker 1: nearly upon us. Many here in Australia are cooking a

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Speaker 1: coronation Keish Jones of your wife is cooking, is kicking

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Speaker 1: you out of the house so she can watch in peace.

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Speaker 1: A very very good friend of mine is currently in

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Speaker 1: the UK. She happens to be the goddaughter of King

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Speaker 1: Charles the third. We thought we'd better check in with

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Speaker 1: her to see what's happening in London, India. Hicks, Hello, Hello,

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Speaker 1: so nice to talk to you. I know you usually

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Speaker 1: reside in the Bahamas, but you are in the UK

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Speaker 1: for this weekend. What's the vibe in London at the moment?

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Speaker 2: I would say it's really funny. Oddly, the rain is

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Speaker 2: all cleared up in sunshine is a and London is

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Speaker 2: just filled with UNI and Jack's flying everywhere and there

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Speaker 2: is a real sense of excitement.

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Speaker 1: And where will you be in all of this, India?

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Speaker 2: I am going to be in London, and I'm lucky

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Speaker 2: enough to be in by the BBC and some of

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Speaker 2: the USA networks to join them as part of their

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Speaker 2: team to the coverage and being with the BBC is

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Speaker 2: really special. Because you get to get in that lovely

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Speaker 2: glass box with the best view it's possible. But today

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Speaker 2: I've actually been with my mum down in the country

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Speaker 2: by Noxfordshire, because it's fascinating to hear these bits of

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Speaker 2: history through her and to see them through her eyes

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Speaker 2: as well, because she not only attended the Queen's coronation

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Speaker 2: in nineteen fifty three, but she also was at Buckingham

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Speaker 2: Palace after the Queen's father's coronation in nineteen thirty seven. Wow,

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Speaker 2: that did feel kind of historic.

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Speaker 1: Wow, your mother, Lady Pamela, was the Queen's Lady in

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Speaker 1: waiting and she received a personal note, didn't she recently

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Speaker 1: from King Charles about this weekend?

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Speaker 2: That's right. I think it's been very interesting to see

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Speaker 2: how this king is going to change that the way

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Speaker 2: the coronation is run and held, and also the already

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Speaker 2: the subtle differences between this rain and the mast Rain,

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Speaker 2: and I think that they're they're excellent, and I think

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Speaker 2: that they are assign of needs to come. And when

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Speaker 2: they realized that actually they weren't going to hold a

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Speaker 2: coronation that was going to have eight thousand guests in

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Speaker 2: the abbey, the state and the Paris said that they

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Speaker 2: were going to slim it down to the burden on

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Speaker 2: the state wasn't so great, and that it felt like

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Speaker 2: it had a more modern teme to it straight away,

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Speaker 2: and I think that that is very much the way

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Speaker 2: the king is going to take this rain forward.

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Speaker 1: King Charles the Third is your grand is your godfather.

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Speaker 1: This has been a long time coming for him. How

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Speaker 1: do you think he will be feeling in these coming days?

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Speaker 1: What an extraordinary moment in history.

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Speaker 2: You know, his mother came to the throne so young

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Speaker 2: because nobody expected her father to die, and he has

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Speaker 2: had us the most seventy four years to really say,

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Speaker 2: think about how he wants to be alone, how the.

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Speaker 1: Sovereign king, as the vibe has the mood changed on

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Speaker 1: Harry back at home with him coming back, I think

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Speaker 1: at the moment there's.

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Speaker 2: Been very little conversation around Harry, which is right that

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Speaker 2: the focus really has been on the coronation. All the

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Speaker 2: symbolism that goes with incredible spreads and cloth and the

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Speaker 2: jewels and the ceremony itself is so intriguing, and this

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Speaker 2: goes back for thousands of years. I mean, really extraordinary

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Speaker 2: things on the stone that he will sit upon. It's

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Speaker 2: just amazing. So I think that the drama of some

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Speaker 2: of the family members has been somewhat diluted because the

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Speaker 2: focus now is on this ceremony that is going to

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Speaker 2: be one of spirituality and faith and all of the

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Speaker 2: things that will ground us as a notion and a commonwealth.

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Speaker 1: But the whole ceremony will be sprinkled without for the start,

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Speaker 1: the pageantry and the history is extra well. Everyone, everyone

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Speaker 1: is intrigued in you, and we are so pleased that

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Speaker 1: we manage to get you on the tour. You're our inside,

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Speaker 1: You're our deep throat on this well.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's hope, let's hope that I've said something that

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Speaker 2: is actually beautiful. That we have this incredible, incredible man,

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Speaker 2: and you know, I'm very lucky to have known him

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Speaker 2: privately as well. And I always say that he is

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Speaker 2: an incredibly considerate godfather. I mean, he's oblivably caring, and

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Speaker 2: he was right from my christening and crude my confirmation

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Speaker 2: through to my wedding, and every year he sends a

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Speaker 2: special note or a wonderfully thought through gift, and you know,

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Speaker 2: I am amongst many godchildren, and he always makes you

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Speaker 2: feel like you're the only one ah so.

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Speaker 1: Nice in you. Thank you for this insight. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much.

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Speaker 2: It's always lovely to speak to both of you. Thank

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Speaker 2: you for you good on.

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Speaker 1: Give us a shout at while you're doing it.

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Speaker 2: When you're doing the car, you will be the first.

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Speaker 1: In my mind, India Hicks, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you guys very much. Indeed,