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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda gem Nation. Well, just a few hours

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Speaker 1: to go till King Charles and Queen Camilla touchdown in Sydney.

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Speaker 1: They're highly anticipated trip down under. This will be the

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Speaker 1: King's seventeenth visit here, but obviously this is his first

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Speaker 1: as head of state. We thought we chat to British

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Speaker 1: journalists and ITV News Royal editor Chris Ship, who'll be

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Speaker 1: accoming the Royals on their visit.

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Speaker 2: Hello Chris morning, how are you guys?

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Speaker 3: Greg is a big deal and you're traveling in style.

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Speaker 3: I understand you're at town Hall station as we speak.

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Speaker 2: Do you know what. I'm a big fan of both

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Speaker 2: your trains and your new Metro which I got yesterday,

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Speaker 2: which i here is only a month old. Is that right?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Right, yeah. I'm glad you're enjoying.

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Speaker 2: Amanda Newer than the a lot newer than the Victorian

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Speaker 2: Underground in London. So you've done all right.

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Speaker 3: Amanda's yet to tagg it.

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Speaker 2: Well, I did a really nice picture of it yesterday,

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Speaker 2: so I'll tag her and you can have a look

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Speaker 2: at that.

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Speaker 1: I'd like that. So, Chris, when you travel with the

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Speaker 1: Royals in this way, how closely do you hang out

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Speaker 1: with them. What how how does it work?

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Speaker 2: I love the phrase hang out. This one's a little

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Speaker 2: bit different because because he's your head of state, he's

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Speaker 2: the King of Australia, it's up to the Australian government

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Speaker 2: to get him out here. So our understanding is that

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Speaker 2: he's going to fly commercially to Singapore. Who's going to

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Speaker 2: be at the front of the plane? So if you're

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Speaker 2: at the back of this quantus was it called the

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Speaker 2: QF one going to Singapore, you might have someone very

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Speaker 2: important at the front and then they're changing planes. They're

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Speaker 2: meeting Queen Camilla and they'll travel into Sydney and arrive

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Speaker 2: at this evening. So a little bit different when we

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Speaker 2: go around Europe or or the Middle East, for example,

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Speaker 2: with with the Royals, we tend to go at the

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Speaker 2: back of his Royal air Force plane and hang out

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Speaker 2: with the military at the back.

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Speaker 1: Wow, So what are we expecting from this trip? Because

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Speaker 1: I think the word's gone out that they don't want

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Speaker 1: it to be too fussy.

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Speaker 2: Listen, they're not really fussy people. I know, you know,

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Speaker 2: it's a really odd thing to say when they're the

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Speaker 2: King and Queen, of course, but if you look at

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Speaker 2: any of the you know, when they go and meet people,

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Speaker 2: we say, all do I think the best chance to

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Speaker 2: see them, by the way, will be at the Opera

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Speaker 2: House on Tuesday. But if you think about the old

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Speaker 2: the late Queen Queen Elizabeth, she was not really a

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Speaker 2: kind of person who'd walked down the line and start

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Speaker 2: hugging and kissing people. But they're very relaxed with those

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Speaker 2: kind of walkabouts as we call them, and I mean

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Speaker 2: they're they're security team that get a bit alarmed sometimes.

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Speaker 2: I was with the King recently and an old lady

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Speaker 2: who reached out and gave him a peck on the cheek.

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Speaker 2: But you know, they're quite relaxed in which you don't

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Speaker 2: often get with senior politicians. And Charles and Camilla are

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Speaker 2: relaxed and they love meeting people.

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Speaker 3: And endearing as well. Years ago, when Charles came in

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Speaker 3: when he was a young man at Bondai Bitcher, a

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Speaker 3: girl and a bikini came up and kissed him on

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Speaker 3: the cheek.

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Speaker 2: That might happen again, Well, you know it might happen again.

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Speaker 2: I mean when I leave to see at Bondeau Beach,

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Speaker 2: I often think I look a bit like James Bond,

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Speaker 2: but it doesn't really happen very often, so no one

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Speaker 2: runs up to me and gives me a kiss.

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Speaker 1: On the teak. Chris, with the King's health, I assume

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Speaker 1: he's bought people with him and all that's being taken

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Look, I've read stuff here that you know, he's coming

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Speaker 2: with doctors and he's coming with blood. Actually that's true,

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Speaker 2: but it's not unusual he comes with doctors and blood

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Speaker 2: even in normal times. I would say that what's different

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Speaker 2: here is that the trip's a lot shorter, Like you're

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Speaker 2: coming all this way, and he's spending effectively three and

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Speaker 2: a half days in Sydney and Canberra. It would have

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Speaker 2: been a lot longer. He would have perhaps gone to

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Speaker 2: Queensland or South Australia had he not been ill. You'll

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Speaker 2: know that New Zealand was knocked off the list because

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Speaker 2: his doctor said, look, that's too much. You simply can't

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Speaker 2: do it. You need some cancer treatment before you leave,

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Speaker 2: you need some canter treatment when you get home. So

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Speaker 2: here's your window, and if you're going to go to Australia,

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Speaker 2: you've got to do it within that window. And that's

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Speaker 2: why the whole thing is quite short. And there are

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Speaker 2: no evening engagement. Often we're working with him until ten

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Speaker 2: eleven o'clock at night, but on this trip we get

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Speaker 2: the evenings off, which is good because then I can

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Speaker 2: see Sydney.

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Speaker 1: Did you bring your own blood? Chris?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Why do I want to hang out with

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Speaker 2: the King when I could be hanging around, you know,

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Speaker 2: Sydney and seeing what you guys have got to offer.

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Speaker 3: Sure you got the Jackson's on, George, get yourself a

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Speaker 3: drink there.

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Speaker 1: And take your own blood and help yourself.

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Speaker 2: Well, well, I travel with my own doctors and my

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Speaker 2: own blood as well, so you know, it's just how

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Speaker 3: Is that blood blue?

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Speaker 2: Chris?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, I'm a brit of perfectly blue blood blue.

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Speaker 2: But no, listen, it's gonna be it's gonna be good,

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Speaker 2: it's gonna be fun. They arrive tonight, and don't forget,

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Speaker 2: tomorrow is a down day because I myself did this

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Speaker 2: journey earlier in the week, and I know what the

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Speaker 2: jet LAG's like, and I'm not seventy five years old

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Speaker 2: and got cancer. So they've given the King and Queen

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Speaker 2: a day off tomorrow and then the whole thing sort

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Speaker 2: of restarts, if you like, on Sunday morning.

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Speaker 3: Okay, well, Amanda is going to be missed in Canberra

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Speaker 3: on my.

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Speaker 1: I can't make it because I've got filming commitments in Sydney,

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Speaker 1: but give him my love plate.

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Speaker 2: Well there's a few state premiers who are not going

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Speaker 2: some perhaps you can take their well spots.

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Speaker 3: They won't made to go down. But I couldn't find

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Speaker 3: a bikini in time.

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Speaker 2: I'm not bikini ready.

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Speaker 3: Chris, thank you for joining us and we'll catch up

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Speaker 3: with you through the through your trip.

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Speaker 2: All right, unless I talk to you. Have a good

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