The sunday times royal editor roya nikkhah. And the american journalist from Bloomberg News Stephanie Baker. Welcome to you all. Its 70 years this weekend since a 25 year old princess elizabeth, on safari with her husband, learned that her father George The Sixth had died. Suddenly she had lost a father and become queen. In the decades since, she has come to embody the British Monarchy and indeed modern british history a living link to churchill and the desperate days of the second world war, and also to the Winds Of Change as the British Empire collapsed. Royah nikka royal editor of The Sunday Times for a woman didnt originally expect to be queen, shes done a pretty good job . I think youre absolutely right. She has. And just listening to each the extraordinary 70 years is remarkable thinking that her link back to winston churchill, 1a Prime Ministers are now in the way things are going, borisjohnson might not be her last. She has seen so much and yet where the really extraordinary th
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it is hot out there. here is susan powell with a look at the weather picture. hello. the uk faces the prospect of extreme heat in the days ahead. the met office has issued a red level warning for monday and tuesday, where it is anticipated rising temperatures will have impact on infrastructure and just the way we can go about our day to day lives. portugal and spain have experienced crippling heat through the last week, and the heat is going to be migrating northwards into france on sunday and then for the uk, monday and tuesday offers the prospect of temperatures widely at least 10 celsius above average for the time of year. overnight, we will see some rain pushing out of northern ireland into scotland and northern england, but already it is warmer than it was at the same time on saturday. 3 4 degrees at the end of the night, saturday morning, if you like, across northern england, we are looking at the mid teens first thing sunday, the warmer air is beginning to push in. the