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Speaker 1: This is gem Nation with I've loved all the stuff

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Speaker 1: we were talking earlier about some of the strange traditions

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Speaker 1: and things like that, with all the royal family and

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Speaker 1: all the lovely stories that are coming out of people's

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Speaker 1: experiences with the Queen and her sense of humor. Theresa May,

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Speaker 1: who was Prime Minister of England during well The Queen

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Speaker 1: has had a thousand prime ministers, starting with Winston Churchill.

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Speaker 1: But Theresa May told this charming story in front of

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Speaker 1: the House of Commons the other day.

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Speaker 2: I remember one picnic at Belmarra, which was taking place

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Speaker 2: in one of the bosses on the estate. The hampers

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Speaker 2: came from the castle and we all mucked in to

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Speaker 2: put the food and drink out on the table. I

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Speaker 2: picked up some cheese, put it on a plate and

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Speaker 2: was transferring it to the table. The cheese fell on

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Speaker 2: the floor. I had a split second decision to make.

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Speaker 2: I picked up the cheese, put it on the plate

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Speaker 2: and put it on the table. And I turned round

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Speaker 2: to see that my every move I've been watched very

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Speaker 2: carefully by her Majesty, the Queen. I looked at her,

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Speaker 2: she looked at me, and she just smiled, and the

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Speaker 2: cheese remained on the table.

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Speaker 1: That's what happens. Love that story, and it reminds me

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Speaker 1: of a moment I had. Excuse me. It was a big,

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Speaker 1: important and fabulous event that the Women's Weekly hold every

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Speaker 1: year for the Women of the Future Awards. People nominate

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Speaker 1: incredible women doing extraordinary work to help other women throughout

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Speaker 1: the year, and then they have an awards called the

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Speaker 1: Women of the Future Awards. And it was at the

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Speaker 1: Opera House. I was sitting at a table with Buttros

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Speaker 1: with the editor of the Women's Weekly and a cold,

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Speaker 1: wonderful woman. And I'm sitting next to Jessica Power from

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Speaker 1: at the First Sight would amazing woman. Julie Bishop's also

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Speaker 1: on the judging panel, a lot of high powered women.

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Speaker 1: So I'm feeling out of my league enormously. Anyway, I'm

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Speaker 1: sitting next to a fabulous woman, Elizabeth Brodwick, who was

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Speaker 1: a sex discrimination commissioner. So this is a big table

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Speaker 1: and I put some chicken in my mouth because we're

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Speaker 1: talking and eating, and it's like I just forgot how

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Speaker 1: to eat. I opened up my mouth to talk. Why

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Speaker 1: would I do that after I just put a piece

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Speaker 1: of chicken in it? And the chicken just fell out unchewed.

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Speaker 1: I'd put it in, I opened my mouth and it

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Speaker 1: just a piece of chicken fell out of my mouth

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Speaker 1: and landed on the floor between me and Elizabeth, a

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Speaker 1: chicken sex discrimination commissioner, a chunk of chicken, and we

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Speaker 1: both just looked at it, and I said, don't even

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Speaker 1: think about it. It well, no, but no. We both

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Speaker 1: of looked at it, and there was a moment of

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Speaker 1: someone's going and I said, oh no, don't. Don't you

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Speaker 1: know those terrible moments when you just forget, you forget

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Speaker 1: how to how to eat, how to live. It's I

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Speaker 1: just wanted the earth to swallow me up. She was

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Speaker 1: so charming, But there is you know, you think, what's happening,

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Speaker 1: what's happening. But what you're saying is that chicken was

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Speaker 1: so big that you could both notice it on the floor.

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Speaker 1: Oh yes, it wasn't a spec You cut a chunk off,

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Speaker 1: you put it in your mouth and it falls straight

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Speaker 1: out onto the floor between you. There'd be no chewing.

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Speaker 1: It was a big chunk of chicken.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't a drumstick.

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Speaker 1: Was it? My caveman eating habits