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and welcome to a very special edition of today on a tuesday morning. i m matt lauer alongside nbc special correspondent meredith vieira. ann has this morning off. and meredith, it doesn t seem like all that long ago, just about a year ago, in fact, that we were here together at buckingham palace just to give people a lay of the land. we are at australia gate here just to one side of the palace. and short time ago we were on the other side. exactly. the royal wedding, 1 million people lined the streets then, if you remember. i don t know if there will be that many today. but don t forget this is the fourth day of celebrating the queen s diamond jubilee and the people here absolutely love her. she has been their constant, in all these years of change, she has been the face that they turn to. and you ve been here for the previous days of celebration. and it s fair to say that today the tone takes a little bit of a different turn. absolutely. the first day saturday ....
and circumstance. thousands of people lining the roads. it s a little bit like you leaving the today show, when that happened, if you remember. that was so sad. but you lured me back. but you know, it s, when that, when the procession arrives at buckingham palace, this crowd is going to go crazy. because the next thing after that obviously will be her eventually emerging onto the balcony for the fly-pass. if you re someone who knows the city of london and the sights, well then you will probably recognize some of the points of interest you ll see along that route. the processional will depart from the new palace yard up whitehall, to trafalgar square, through admiralty arch, along the mall, as they say here, and in to the main center gates of buckingham palace. and the queen will be riding, i believe, in that 1902 landau that prince william and catherine rode on the occasion of their wedding. right. and because the weather seems to be cooperating, although it ....