-In the 1970s, there's a man who wants to control the destiny of the Royal Family.

[ Gun fires ] -Fetch her.

Come.

If one went through life trying to do the things that were popular or well liked, if one had to gain votes or increase one's box-office rating, one might behave differently, but it would be a sad day to try and please people.

People either can take one because they, on the whole, value one, or they can dislike one or fear one or despise one.

It leaves me cold.

All I want to know is was I right?

Were they wrong?

Will they eventually come 'round and see it?

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ -There's been an assassination attempt on Princess Anne.

-Princess Margaret has decided to get a divorce.

♪♪ -Congratulations.

-Thank you very much.

-Thank you very much.

You're very kind.

♪♪ -You're a monster.

♪♪ -This.

This.

-It's called a camera.

[ Camera shutters clicking ] -The biggest audience in television history -- 1/6 of the world's population.

-Excuse me.

I want to protect children.

♪♪ ♪♪ [ Camera shutters clicking ] -Wills?

-Not many people have asked if I'm okay.

♪♪ -Can you recover from this, sir?

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ -The Queen is at the Imperial War Museum, attending a film premiere hosted by her second cousin, Lord Mountbatten, known to the family as "Uncle Dickie."

♪♪ Mountbatten has produced a 12-part documentary series all about himself.

[ Beeping ] ♪♪ -The Earl Mountbatten of Burma is a 20th-century man.

♪♪ -Lord Mountbatten's shadow was cast very strongly over -- over the whole family.

♪♪ He was hugely involved with the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh all the way through.

♪♪ He was a larger-than-life personality.

-When have you lost your self-confidence?

-When have I lost it?

-Yes.

-How do you mean?

-On what occasion have you consciously lost your self-confidence?

-Well, I wouldn't be where I am now if I had ever lost it.

That's the difference, isn't it?

♪♪ -He was like the grandfather figure of the Royal Family, and the Queen was very fond of him.

They spent hundreds of hours riding together alone.

♪♪ But she wouldn't kowtow to him at all.

She made that very clear.

-The Queen is aware that Uncle Dickie is a huge meddler.

30 years ago, it was Mountbatten who masterminded her marriage to his nephew Philip, securing his place in the Royal Family.

Now Uncle Dickie is planning for the future, and this time he's got his eye on the Queen's eldest son, Prince Charles.

Charles knows it's his duty to settle down and find a wife.

But he's still pining for his ex-girlfriend Camilla, who has just married someone else.

-There was a heck of a lot of pressure... around... "Oh, dear.

All these people are pretty unsuitable.

What's gonna happen?"

[ Applause ] ♪♪ -His great uncle Lord Mountbatten befriends him and begins to exert his influence.

♪♪ -His unique quality, I think, was that, uh, you never felt there was a generation gap ever.

In a sense, he was like a-a friend of one's own age.

-Prince Charles arrives at Palam Airport.

Accompanying the prince, Lord Louis Mountbatten of Burma.

-I think his particular role with Prince Charles was to say, "Just stop looking backwards and pick yourself up and go and just show the world that you are a big guy."

-Because he was somebody that one could talk to about every sort of issue or problem or whatever it was that particularly concerned one.

Um, and, inevitably, there are some things that you can talk about to somebody like that that you can't talk about to your parents.

♪♪ -It's a letter from Lord Mountbatten.

"I believe in a case like yours the man should sow his wild oats before settling down."

This is true.

I was -- Yes, I know that.

"But for a wife, he should choose a suitable and sweet-charactered girl before she met anyone else she might fall for.

I think it's disturbing for women to have experiences if they have to remain on a pedestal after marriage."

Yeah, well, that's very much Lord Louis.

Yes, I remember that one.

Yeah.

♪♪ -Mountbatten has just the girl in mind -- his own granddaughter Amanda.

♪♪ In the meantime, he encourages Charles to sow his wild oats, offering his country home Broadlands as a discreet love shack for the young prince.

His valet, William Evans, helped with all Lord Mountbatten's entertaining.

-Lord Louis was very, very hot on his girlfriends... ♪♪ ...for the weekend If Prince Charles was there.

Lord Louis had all the pretty girls he could rake up from the world come to Broadlands.

♪♪ They were all nobility, or they weren't... ladies off the street or anything.

[ Chuckles ] But it was an absolutely stunning [Chuckles] stunning atmosphere.

-But Mountbatten, a notorious philanderer himself, is distracting Charles from what the Queen needs him to do.

She won't be happy until he finds an appropriate wife.

♪♪ [ Indistinct conversations ] But the Queen has something even bigger on her mind.

Her first jubilee is approaching, and the planning for that comes first.

-The Queen has been driven forward by an extremely strong sense of duty.

Duty to the nation seems to have preference over duty to her children.

-The Queen has decided that in her jubilee year, she must visit every country in the United Kingdom, and that means going to Northern Ireland.

♪♪ -Security officials have been expecting an increase in Provisional IRA violence for some weeks.

-We didn't like the Queen.

We saw always a link between royalty, Her Majesty's Armed Forces, and, indeed, the British monarchy, as far as we were concerned, was inextricably linked with the British occupation of what we consider to be the British occupation of our country.

♪♪ -The Queen, though, is planning to visit the troubled province of Ulster, a place torn apart by sectarian violence.

♪♪ -I think she's a very sensitive human being, and, in terms of going to Northern Ireland, the thought uppermost in her mind was that it was her duty to do so.

♪♪ -The last time the Queen visited Northern Ireland, someone threw a brick at her Rolls-Royce, denting the bonnet and narrowly missing the Queen herself.

This time, the IRA warned that the consequences could be much worse.

♪♪ But the IRA aren't the only real threat to the Royal Family.

Princess Anne is on her way back to Buckingham Palace after a night out.

♪♪ What she doesn't know is that she's being tailed.

♪♪ 26-year-old Ian Ball plans to kidnap the Princess and ransom her for £3 million.

♪♪ As Anne nears the palace, a white Ford Escort brings the royal limo to a halt.

[ Engine revs, tires screech ] -There is just one person standing between Princess Anne and her kidnaper -- her bodyguard, Jim Beaton.

-The attacker was trying to drag Princess Anne from the royal car, so I scrambled up to alongside Princess Anne, and I looked at the window at him, and he pointed his gun in towards Princess Anne.

I put my hand up... [ Gun cocks ] ...my right hand up in front of the gun, and he fired.

[ Gunshot ] And the bullet went through the window and into my hand.

[ Gun cocks ] Then he just fed another bullet into my abdomen.

[ Gunshot ] -With her bodyguard down, the gunman turns on Princess Anne.

She vividly recalls how she gave him short shrift.

-He opened the door, and we had a sort of... discussion.

[ Chuckles ] -What did he say?

-Um, well, he said I had to go with him.

Um, I said I didn't -- didn't think I wanted to go, thank you very much.

-After bravely standing her ground, Anne tells the gunman, "Not bloody likely" and refuses to move.

[ Siren wailing ] Minutes later, armed police arrive and overpower the kidnapper.

-Well, after the shooting, the mall is completely closed off here tonight, but 100 policemen drafted in from all over Central London.

-A man is helping the police with their inquiries at Cannon Row Police Station.

Princess Anne escaped unhurt.

-She...didn't panic... stayed calm.

I think if she'd screamed and been uncalm, he would have probably shot her anyway.

But, no, she was very, very cool, calm, and collected.

[ Eric Clapton's "The Core" plays ] -Meanwhile, heir to the throne Prince Charles is straying ever further from his duty.

[ Music continues ] Following the advice of his uncle Lord Mountbatten, Prince Charles is playing the field.

-♪ Every morning when I wake ♪ ♪ A feeling soon begins to overtake me ♪ [ Music continues ] -He's been linked with almost as many sweet young things as Casanova.

Many have made the headlines, none the altar.

-He's not been able to develop relationships as you and I have He has to romance a girl in strict confines.

He can only take her pheasant shooting or up in his helicopters.

[ Music continues ] -Charles is enjoying the life of a playboy, but Mountbatten knows that this can't carry on forever and senses the timing is right to put his plan into action.

[ Music fades ] [ Jet engine roaring, tires screeching ] ♪♪ He organizes for Charles to visit the Bahamas with his granddaughter Amanda.

They look incredibly relaxed and happy together.

-Lord Louis was a bit naughty in that way, but that's how it used to go on in the old days, and it was a necessity.

You didn't get into the royal house unless you were in the royal house.

-One can see Mountbatten's plan seems to be working, with Charles and Amanda becoming ever closer.

♪♪ Charles had raised the idea of marriage with Amanda's mother, but she'd urged him to hold off.

-Yeah, she was very young.

Yeah.

But she was one of his favorite cousins, and she was a lovely girl.

She'd have been a beautiful queen.

-On the surface, Amanda could be the solution that the Queen has been looking for.

♪♪ But her husband, Philip, is concerned that this is a classic piece of Mountbatten maneuvering.

-Prince Philip's attitude was, "Keep out of it.

He'll pick his own wife when he's ready."

There was a little bit of a friction sometimes between Prince Philip and Lord Louis by telling him to keep his nose out of Charles's love life, but -- but Lord Louis was very determined.

[ Fog horn blows ] -As the next in line, Charles's love life is always an issue for the Queen.

♪♪ But with Andrew, she has a much more relaxed attitude.

-This royal visit had an added dimension.

It was a family occasion.

The individual hit was 16-year-old Prince Andrew, poised and sophisticated beyond his years, yet natural and unaffected.

It isn't too difficult to understand the disappointment of these young Canadian women athletes when the prince was led away after sitting at the wrong luncheon table.

[ Indistinct conversations ] ♪♪ -On an official visit to Canada, they spend quality time together at the Olympic Games before the rest of the family fly out to join them.

♪♪ -The Queen doesn't particularly like helicopters, and her concern was evident when they landed with Prince Charles and 12-year-old Prince Edward, completing the reunification of the Royal Family in Canada, the first time ever they've all been together outside Britain.

[ Camera shutters clicking ] ♪♪ -It's a unique occasion, and, for once, Charles is away from the influence of Mountbatten.

-This was a chance to see the Queen as a concerned mother of a family, her pride openly happy.

-The'-re like all families.

They had their problems -- the fallouts, the disagreements -- but, generally, it was a very lovely atmosphere.

-For now, the Queen's family are a picture of unity.

-People are sick and fed up in this country telling them what to do.

-But back home, Britain is in the grip of a heat wave, and tensions boil over on the streets.

[ Gunshot ] [ Explosion ] And bombs are going off in Northern Ireland.

-Violence has become almost routine -- assassinations, bombings, booby traps, all perpetrated by IRA terrorists.

♪♪ [ Announcer speaking indistinctly ] [ Indistinct conversations ] -And the clock is still ticking for Prince Charles to find a wife.

But his heart lies elsewhere.

♪♪ His first love, Camilla, is now married with a family.

♪♪ And instead of getting over her, Charles does the exact opposite.

♪♪ He looks for a house close to Camilla's home in Wiltshire, and the two begin hunting near his country estate.

♪♪ -You ought to be down the road a bit.

♪♪ -Camilla makes him laugh, among other things, all the time.

♪♪ They had a tremendous spark together which stayed with him all through youth.

-Unable to resist the attraction between them, their love for one another remains as strong as ever.

-There were kind of joined spirit between them which -- which meets somewhere and ties up and makes them both... [ Sighs ] easier.

Well, not "easier."

It's the wrong word.

It makes them both... ♪♪ ...content.

♪♪ -You've known Prince Charles for a very long time, haven't you?

What sort of person is he?

-Well, you know as well as I do.

Everyone knows he's a marvelous -- marvelous leader and a marvelous man.

-But Camilla's husband, Andrew, is no ordinary man.

He's a high-ranking officer in the Household Cavalry, and soon whispers of the close relationship make their way through the regiment and up through the chain to the Colonel in Chief, who happens to be the Queen herself.

For the Queen, this is history repeating itself.

Her uncle Edward VIII gave up the throne out of love for a married woman.

I think that the Queen and Princess Margaret -- He was their favorite uncle.

-You know, he had a magic about him, and that's, I think, why it was such a blow that this happened.

They just felt he'd been stolen.

-For the Queen, the stakes are huge.

Camilla represents a direct threat to both Charles's future and the monarchy itself, and by way of a warning to the pair, she decides to ban Camilla from all royal events.

♪♪ [ Sex Pistols' "God Save the Queen" plays ] After 25 years of protecting the crown, the Queen celebrates her Silver Jubilee.

[ Cheers and applause ] -♪ God save the Queen ♪ ♪ The fascist regime ♪ ♪ They made you a moron ♪ -Since her reign began, the years between have known happiness and tragedy, fruitfulness and plenty.

And through it all, she has kept the soul of Britain and the Commonwealth together with a modest but regal dignity.

[ Cheers and applause ] [ Music continues ] -To mark the occasion, she's touring all four corners of the United Kingdom.

-♪ God save the Queen ♪ ♪ We mean it, man ♪ ♪ There is no future ♪ -But trouble awaits her in Northern Ireland, the most dangerous corner of her realm.

[ Song ends ] ♪♪ -"Disastrous" is perhaps too strong a word, but it would have been a very, very negative thing if Northern Ireland had been left out of the Jubilee visits.

♪♪ -The Queen wants peace in Northern Ireland and is here to deliver a crucial speech that she hopes will reconcile her troubled province.

♪♪ -Of course, in a situation where you have the number-one target in the minds of the IRA, you've got to take it extremely seriously.

-The IRA have threatened to harm the Queen if she sets foot in Northern Ireland, so she must take extreme measures if she is to reach the mainland safely.

♪♪ -I know for certain that that was her very, very first ride in a helicopter.

♪♪ Flying by helicopter, you leap over the security problem of the route.

♪♪ -After her first ever flight in a helicopter, the Queen set foot on a small corner of her divided province in one of the tightest and most expensive internal security operations the United Kingdom has seen.

-The grounds of Hillsborough Castle have been sealed off, and only a crowd of hand-picked supporters have been allowed through the castle gates.

[ Band playing, crowd chanting ] [ Cheers and applause ] The Queen is welcome at Hillsborough Castle.

-We don't accept a British Queen.

-We never will accept a British Queen.

We don't want her here at all.

-But her visit sparks anger on the streets of Belfast... -Please keep the road clear for the demonstration.

-...where 3,000 Republican protesters are preparing to march on the city, including Danny Morrison.

-Was myself who proposed that we call it the Queen of Death March.

The British would want to project a benign monarchy loved by the people, everybody waving little Union Jacks and kids presenting her with bouquets of flowers.

For us, it was bouquets of plastic bullets that were presented to our kids fired by her soldiers.

[ People shouting ] ♪♪ They could have allowed us into the city center.

They could have allowed us to get up on the platform and make anti-royal statements, and there would have been no riot.

But, no, their attitude to us was that "You're staying in the ghetto.

You're not coming out of the ghetto.

Nobody can hear you in the ghetto."

And so, as a result of that, people used violence.

♪♪ -Meanwhile, at Hillsborough, the Queen bestowed honors on 90 of her subjects for their services in such difficult times.

-I mean, the contrast between the event around Hillsborough Castle and the rubble-strewn streets of Belfast... [ People shouting, explosion ] ...it was a tale of two cities.

[ Siren wailing ] ♪♪ -After a night of violence, the Royal Family wake in the safe haven of Belfast Harbor.

Having stayed the night on board the royal yacht, Robert Ramsey is a guest at breakfast.

-The corridor was festooned with diving gear because the Royal Family, after Northern Ireland, were going to be cruising up the Western Isles, having their summer holiday.

The admiral produced a map where it marked out deserted beaches for picnics, et cetera, so it was a sort of a holiday planning session at the same time as having breakfast.

Prince Edward was very made up by the fact which he told us.

He said, you know, "Mummy has promised me 15 minutes later on," which gave me an insight into the life of a young prince.

♪♪ -But before she can spend time with her children, the Queen wants to give a speech at Ulster University calling for peace.

♪♪ But the IRA decide to put a stop to her visit.

♪♪ -At the very last moment, there was a message that came through that there was a new threat to the visit, perhaps to the Queen's life.

♪♪ -The IRA warned, said something along the lines of, "We've breached security.

Clear the university and all the buildings of civilians, and if you ignore this warning, if there are casualties, they're your responsibility."

♪♪ And as we know from history, the IRA does not issue empty threats.

-True to their word, the IRA say they have planted a bomb on campus.

It's been timed to go off during the Queen's visit.

♪♪ At Republican offices, Danny Morrison watches the Queen's visit unfold, believing a bomb with a timer device is about to explode.

-We had a television in our office, and we watched it.

I was watching to see if, suddenly, they had taken the IRA warning, and that's what we were expecting.

♪♪ ♪♪ [ Cheers and applause ] But when we saw the British Secretary of State greet the Queen... ♪♪ It was clear to me that he was going to take a huge, huge risk.

[ Cheers and applause ] ♪♪ -As the Queen begins her speech, the bomb still hasn't been found.

♪♪ [ Applause ] ♪♪ ♪♪ -It is 11 years since we were last here.

During much of that time, we have watched events with deep concern and sadness.

No one could remain unmoved by the violence and the grief that follows it.

To see such conflict taking place within our country emphasizes the clear and continuing responsibility for us all to bring back peace and stability to this community.

[ Applause ] ♪♪ -The bomb -- it didn't go off for 4 or 5 hours after she had left, but there was a bomb there, and it did go off, but not at the time that the IRA planned.

So it could have been disastrous.

-The Queen has delivered her message of peace to the nation, and, finally, after a perilous visit, she can set sail on her summer holiday.

-Supposedly, Duke said afterwards to the Queen, "Well, that's that over.

Unless they try to sink the Britannia now, there's nothing else they can do," and that certainly rings true.

[ Chuckles ] ♪♪ -It's like the London Underground.

-Now aged 30, Charles is still single.

But instead of settling down, he's traveling the world with his uncle Lord Mountbatten.

-[ Speaking French ] [ Laughter, applause ] -While Charles continues to see Camilla, Mountbatten is desperate to take him in another direction.

♪♪ -Old Louis was determined to... put on to Prince Charles what Lord Louis thought he should be doing.

♪♪ -Mountbatten writes Charles a frank letter criticizing his nephew.

"You are beginning on the downward slope which wrecked your uncle David's life and led to his disgraceful abdication and his futile life ever since."

♪♪ Mountbatten's words have the desired effect on Charles.

Haunted by the specter of his disgraced uncle David... Charles does something completely unexpected.

He proposes to Amanda.

At the age of just 21, Amanda is faced with a life-changing decision.

-Well, she would have become queen if she'd have married the Prince of Wales.

They were both very fond of each other, but Amanda wasn't in love with Charles.

-Unwilling to settle for anything less than true love or to take on the burden of royal life, Amanda turns Charles down.

-Not Amanda's way of life.

No, she wouldn't want to be queen.

-Amanda's refusal means that Mountbatten's dreams of being the power behind the future king are over.

♪♪ At his estate in Ireland, Mountbatten's plans are in tatters.

-I loved going to Cassiebawn.

Gorgeous old castle on the cliffs above the most beautiful coast.

Miles of beautiful beaches.

It's Paradise on Earth.

It really is Paradise.

♪♪ It was one place in the world he could escape.

♪♪ -Come on.

Pull it in.

-And he was never happier when he was out on the boat, Shadow V. ♪♪ -Lord Mountbatten of Burma has been killed by an explosion on his yacht off the coast of County Sligo.

The Provisional IRA have said they did it.

-Local people say the yacht was about 100 yards from the shore when there was a massive explosion, throwing everyone on board into the sea.

The Provisional IRA in Belfast say they carried out what they called the execution by detonating a 50-pound bomb by remote control.

♪♪ -The IRA explained that coming to this big castle, going around like the lord of the manor, was offensive.

You could hardly move in West Belfast without being seen or being stopped by the British military, but here it was okay to send the Lord to holiday and pretend that everything was normal when it wasn't normal.

It was abnormal.

The IRA's intention was to kill him, penetrating the heart of the British establishment, right?

If you're going to rule us, there's gonna be a penalty.

There's gonna be a personal cost to it.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ -The Prince of Wales, who has lost a very special friend and adviser and, indeed, admirer.

-By the right, slow march!

♪♪ -Lord Mountbatten represented the grandfather I never had.

It seemed as if the foundations of all that we held dear in life had been torn apart irreparably.

♪♪ ♪♪ -The death of Lord Mountbatten was a ghastly shock, and it left a big hole in his life.

♪♪ -He, as much as anybody, completely devastated.

Unbelievable.

Unbelievable loss.

♪♪ -The Queen is deeply concerned about her son Charles and the future of the monarchy.

But a strange twist of fate is about to intervene.

♪♪ Watching Mountbatten's funeral on television is an 18-year-old girl who's always had a schoolgirl crush on Charles.

She later explained in a candid conversation with her voice coach how she unwittingly said something that would start their relationship.

Ohh!

Ha ha!

Wrong word!

Whereupon he leapt upon me, started kissing me, and I said, "Ugh!"

You know?

"This is not what people do!"

And he was all over me the rest of the evening -- followed me around everywhere like a puppy.

♪♪ -One gets the sense from Diana that Charles thought he had found someone who understood him.

♪♪ And she perfectly fit the mold that Mountbatten would have wanted.

Charles begins to take a serious interest in her.

-There's no question about it.

She was ideal -- not too bright at coming forward, beautiful to look at, lovely disposition, nice sort of personality.

I think he would have approved that.

♪♪ -After months of dating in secret, Charles takes Diana to Scotland for what is known as the Balmoral Test.

♪♪ That means going hunting and stalking with the Royal Family, her every move watched by the Queen.

♪♪ -Diana brought a lot of energy.

-She was active and funny and charismatic, and she was a good looker, so that was a help, too.

-After the weekend away, the Queen gives Diana the royal seal of approval.

♪♪ -Lady Diana follows the golden rule.

She tucks her chin in, smiles, and says nothing.

-Good morning, Lady Diana.

How are you this morning?

We've come from Australia.

We're not around here.

-Desperate for any scoop on the royal couple, the press chase Charles across the globe.

-No.

Where have you all come from?

-We're the Australian crew.

-Australian?!

What next?

-We're the Australians, sir.

-Bloody hell!

-Aaah!

Aaah!

-This year, Klosters is invaded by the paparazzi, looking in vain for Lady Diana.

-If I appear annoyed and fed up, it's because I am.

[ Chuckles ] It's just -- It -- It really does -- You know, there's a limit, I find, to how long one's patience can last.

That's the trouble.

-So Prince Charles goes skiing, and he leaves the British press still desperate for that special photograph of Charles and Diana.

-In their relentless pursuit of the couple, the tabloids uncover an explosive story that could plunge the monarchy into crisis.

♪♪ -Well, that was my first ever expedition on the Royal train, going down to Cornwall.

[ Bell clanging ] What happens with the Royal train is you get on the thing at a reasonable hour of the evening.

Then it goes to some siding, fairly normally, fairly near to where you're going.

Then the next morning, it will go in.

And what is alleged to have happened in those articles is that he'd had a date while the train was in the siding.

I think most of the stories suggested it was Diana.

♪♪ It's not the only suggestion, and I don't know if it took place, and if it did take place, I would actually be very surprised that it was Diana.

♪♪ -He knew perfectly well she wasn't there at all.

She was 50 miles away.

So it wasn't her, so it had to be somebody else.

Diana thought that the visitor was probably Camilla.

♪♪ -Diana's reputation is being sullied in the press, and any hint of impropriety could rule her out of royal marriage.

The Queen is forced to react.

-The palace was furious and called the story a total fabrication, demanding an apology.

[ Typewriter clacking ] -Is there any possibility of any announcement of your marriage in the near future?

Can you tell me?

Can you tell me if there's any possibility?

-I'm not gonna say anything.

-Prince Charles did give us a hint... -The scandal means Philip writes to Charles, telling him he owes it to Diana to make a decision quickly.

Charles carries the letter around for days.

-The general feeling was, "Make up your mind, get on with it," in a very short order of time.

So, the pressure was intense... not only from the family but from the country, the press, everybody.

-Charles is wracked with indecision.

Marriage to Diana is in the best interest of his family and the country, but Camilla is always at the back of his mind.

-I certainly got a sense that making up his mind wasn't -- wasn't straightforward.

One of the, you know, hugest decisions in your life.

-Can you find the words to sum up how you feel today, both of you?

-Difficult to find that sort of word, isn't it, really?

Just delighted and -- and happy.

And I'm amazed that she's been brave enough to take me on.

-[ Chuckles ] -And I suppose in love.

-Of course.

-Whatever "in love" means.

-[ Laughing ] Yes.

-You put your own interpretation.

-It obviously means two very happy people.

-Yes.

-As you can see.

-Well, from us, congratulations.

-Thank you very much.

-Thank you very much.

You're very kind.

♪♪ [ Cheers and applause ] -Who can doubt the love and happiness that this couple so obviously feel and share?

So strong, but for one inspiring day, a whole nation can forget its troubles to unite in wishing them well.

♪♪ ♪♪ -The Queen has faced down a decade of turmoil, juggling motherhood and duty, as well as problems within her family and throughout her realm.

[ Cheers and applause ] Prince Charles's marriage is resolved for now, but the problems in Northern Ireland will continue for years to come.

♪♪ -After nearly two years of talks, after 30 years of conflict, after thousands of violent deaths, Northern Ireland was given the chance of a new beginning.

-Over 30 years later, the Queen returns to Ireland to heal old wounds.

-To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past, I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy.

-That visit, it's extraordinary in comparison to 1977 -- her meeting Martin McGuinness, her reconciliation statements.

-We can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

-She said there were things that we did that perhaps we could have done better or shouldn't have done at all.

It was along the lines of a statement of regret.

My view on monarchy hasn't changed, but my view on the Queen has changed.

-Join me in a toast to the President and the people of Ireland.

-We can look back and see the contribution that she makes.

And it shows that, actually, you know, at the very end of the story, our stories converge in some type of understanding and some type of friendship.

♪♪ -Our thoughts are with those who are in the South Atlantic.

-There's Prince Andrew -- came back a hero.

Poor Prince Charles -- slightly in the shadows.

-Just beginning to get up.

-It is confirmed that an intruder managed to break in to the Queen's bedroom at Buckingham Palace.

-I wasn't thinking about getting caught.

-I just wanted to talk to the Queen.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪