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Steve patterson has the story. >> reporter: it was the perfect storm. a winter of pounding rain and mountain snow. moving earth and uncovering new riches long buried. today in california it's a new gold rush. >> this year's a great year because the water has just moved so much new material. easy gold i call it. >> easy gold year. >> reporter: we met this collection of hardcore hobbyists at the heart of the original gold rush, placerville hardware, in business since 1852. >> you've got every different kind of pan you could think of. >> reporter: the guys geared up -- >> let's go find some gold....

Series of mishaps because during queen victoria's funeral she wanted horses, white and cream horses to pull her coffin. but either it was too cold or the horses panicked, they reared, it didn't happen and somebody intervened of the royal household and got the sailors to pull -- >> so the navy saved the day. >> yes. >> and now they are central to this. >> and even further back in 1852, the duke of wellington, he had a gun carriage, which was actually a car, created -- it was ten tons, created from cannons found on the battlefield of waterloo. and it got stuck in the mud and they couldn't take t...

The community and the royal family to make this final farewell to balmoral. >> described by queen victoria as her dear paradise in the highlands, it was up privately by prince albert for his wife in 1852 and this place the 50,000 acre estate with a sense of world this and a beauty in the -- national park is provided joy to for her majesty the queen. a sanctuary, in which she can become a part, and the journey will take the along the river like a life blood flowing into the villages along its course, aberdeen, person with, life far from the rain of last wait. and alistair boost, people will com...

That means that much of this could still be subject to change. let's turn now to a london -based staff writer. she is a affairs writer for time magazine. she is walking up. is she with us? no, you know why, she is not ready to go unfortunately. we do not have her mic up. instead, let's go to kelli. she reports on just how much has changed in the 70 years since queen elizabeth was on the throne. >> yeah. that is right. the world has changed drastically, hasn't it, since the time that queen elizabeth was born back in 1926 and a time when she ascended to the throne. that is when she became queen ...

Priority. and she suffered i have to say, her reputation suffered hugely as a result. but she put family first. but a reminder that she also has a daughteuty to the country. and we did look to her. and if she were not in public life, i think that they would are be pretty shocked just as after the death of diana. >> and her family gathering now to be with her to be near her. we should point out balmoral which has been so important to queen elizabeth became part of the royal family when prince albert bought it for his wife then queen victoria i think it was 1852. max foster, stand by in london. ...