And she was we used to then have a weekly audience. she was immensely gracious and kind, sympathetic. you know, we would have good discussions. she was one person, an interview, you could have complete confidence and say whatever you needed to say, ask whatever you wanted to ask, and, you know, the thing about her which i think is the most important thing in understanding why it is such intensity of grief in our country right now, but also i think to a degree around the world is that she was somebody who during a period of extraordinary change. you know, if you think back to the early 1950s, her coronation and forward to today, during that process of change, she managed somehow through all of it to blend the tradition that she represented with the modernizing all around her, and that is an enormous skill. so she was someone who she ....