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ukraine and near the southern city of kherson. the city of lyman has been recaptured 2a hours after the russian president announced the annexation of four partially occupied regions. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. britain mourned the death of queen elizabeth in ways that combined the intimate and the personal with the grand and ceremonial. for most of us, of course, death and grief remain a very private affair. an irreversible, life altering shock when we lose someone close for which there is no guide or preparation. my guest today is the one time...

time pop star turned church of england vicar, the reverend richard coles, whose frank account of his own grief has struck a chord with many. why did grief nearly break him? richard coles, welcome to hardtalk. britain has just lived through a rather extraordinary, momentous experience, the death of queen elizabeth, the mourning that came with it. and many people have said that the death of the queen revived very sharp memories for them of their own losses and how they felt during their own losses. you've just written a book about grief. is that true of you, too? oh, yes, very much so....

Lots of people love the bbc, doesn't love you back. you learn this, right? so you make your accommodation with it. if you think it's something worth doing, and i did, and there's much about the church that i do love and lot about the people in the church that i loved. and also my day to day experience was always of being affirmed, actually. and david and i managed to find a way in which we could conduct the necessary intimacies of our relationship without subjecting that to this kind of weird forensic process that the church expected. i mean, again, this is difficult territory. i don't want to...

Celibate relationship. we didn't have a celibate relationship. we didn't, no. but then i've often thought, you know, i've never had, i've never had a twinge of conscience about that because i thought the question was not a legitimate question. would you tell the gestapo the truth if you were being interrogated? no, you wouldn't. of course you wouldn't. but this isn't the gestapo. this is the church that you are a part of, that you actually represent. but it was a question that was not legitimate. it was one that refused to acknowledge the equal dignity that david and i had, and i wasn't going ...

To yourself and to those promises that the church required you to make? no. and where did it, where did it break? where? where was the dishonesty or the failing to fully truthful? celibate relationship. we didn't have a celibate relationship. we didn't, no. but then i've often thought, you know, i've never had, i've never had a twinge of conscience about that because i thought the question was not a legitimate question. would you tell the gestapo the truth if you were being interrogated? no, you wouldn't. of course you wouldn't. but this isn't the gestapo. this is the church that you are a par...