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>> was wise enough, particularly after the death of diana, to learn how to move the monarchy forward incrementally. and she was much more in touch in a personal way with people, and you know, so i think, you know, she's always been incredibly wise and she has never gone out -- she never went out sort of over her skis. she always sort of had almost a sixth sense of knowing not to be too far ahead of where the public was. but yet, to bring them along when it was necessary, and i think in terms of the transition now, she has particularly, it's notable that over the past months, when -- ...

max, anybody under the able of 72 or so, has never known a world without queen elizabeth. what happens now? what do the next few weeks look like? >> i think the images you've been speaking to and the ones we're looking at now really express the now. people are shocked, saddened, they sort of saw this coming but didn't know how it was going to feel. you have thousands of people coming down here to buckingham palace to mill about, to talk to each other, it's quite celebratory at times. i think that's quite heartening in a way, because i know that the queen wanted people to celebrate he...

prerecorded. there will be gun salutes tomorrow. the formalitiies tomorrow. k king charles and queen camilla will be overseeing the first day of national mourning, which will continue until the funeral in just under two weeks' time. so at the moment, the body will be lying in the ballroom, i imagine, and members of staff will be paying their respects, as will members of the family who will gather there, and there will be a procession to the capital of scotland tomorrow, where the queen will lie for a couple of days. that's the plan, i think. but these things are being signed off by p...

of living crisis bites? hello and welcome to bbc news. a russian air base hundreds of kilometres from ukraine has come under attack for the second time in less than a month. the russian defence ministry says the engels base in the southern saratov region was targetted by ukrainian drones during the night. russia says it shot down the drones, but that three of its servicemen were killed by falling debris. the base is host to long—range russian strategic bombers, the type of which have launched numerous missiles strikes on ukraine. from moscow, our russia editor, steve rosenberg, rep...

here, it really does. the accessible queue has now closed, and there's a warning the general queue will shut well before the funeral service. the line currently stretches back five miles. next week, the queen's coffin will be transferred to westminster abbey for herfuneral, led by the dean of westminster. right at the heart of this is a family funeral, we mustn't forget that. deeply personal and a very, very difficult thing for a family to navigate. but this is also a celebration of a quite extraordinary life. this evening, the queen's eight grandchildren, including princes william a...