Do Go On - 13 - Queen Elizabeth II

Episode Date: January 19, 2016

Most of us simply know her as The Queen, but what do you really know about the longest serving British Monarch in history? Hear about her childhood, marriage to Phillip, Coronation, corgis, private wealth, the correct way address her and the time someone broke into her bedroom. Oh and also laugh at the way Dave tries to pronounce the word sixth.Twitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] the show and get rewards like bonus episodes:www.patreon.com/DoGoOnPod  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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but we've already been talking off air for about 20 minutes. We're going to hang on, ask me. How are you Matt? We don't have time for that Dave. I'm sorry. Just Perkins is also in the house. Hello Jess. Hello.

I'm well, I'm just going to cut the straight down. Well, you're good. Yeah good I reckon the listeners are really sick of our this lucky number 13 episode and People are already pretty sick of the preamble that we'd like to throw at the Star or we ask each other in a roundabout way how we are and we're always either Well or good that's the only two options. I would also like to point out that you always introduce Matt first I've got into a habit of doing it that way. If you'd like to be introduced first next time. No, it's okay. And look, it's clockwise

for you. And also, Matt is closer to you where you're sitting. I just thought it was the way that he recruited us to the podcast. Yeah, that's pretty much it. I was the last edition. I was the missing piece of the puzzle. You were. That's right. We became superhuman when we had a gym before I was here. Was shit. It was. That's why those episodes will never. They'll never. They'll never see the lot of day. But then just came on board. It was like, how well? Award winning? Yes, please. Well, technically we haven't been nominated or won any. In fact, I don't need no podcast in Australia. Can win awards. It's a potty. The potty. It's a potty.

Can podcast win awards at all. But if they can. Are they podcast awards? Sure there are. I'm starting them. I'm starting them if we're getting one for sure. Then we're going to do an episode on them. Well good, we totally good.

And when you say do an episode, you mean if you haven't listened to the show before, that is when we take it in turns to research a topic and report back to the other two about that topic and it is my turn this week. And you guys don't know what I'm going to talk about. No, we never know what you're going to do Dave. Is there any possibility that I could bring up a topic, tell you what it is and then you would veto it straight away and say no, you can't talk about that? I feel like the death one was pretty close.

Oh yeah, we all enjoy that, didn't we, a few weeks ago. Yeah, I did actually. I mean, a lot of that I've tried to block out of my memory. Yeah, my therapist and I are working our way through it but I'm apart from that. I hope we haven't lost all that listeners too because of that. Or now we're just listened to by morticians and underdakers exclusively. They would hate us because we did nothing but bag them in their professions. Yeah. You ain't us packing fucks. Well, they don't get paid enough. I can totally treat that. Yeah.

Oh, I just, sorry. I'm very conscious of my swearing. I better stop, because I know. Well, there are mothers listening. There are mothers listening. It's funny that you were conscious of your swearing on this episode. Is it really?

Oh, I kind of, thought I could it be. Don't be history of swear words. Don't let that influence you too much when I ask you a question, because we always start the episode with a question to do with said topic to lead us in. My question is, who or whose face? Do you think it's the most reproduced human image since Jesus Christ? The Mona Lisa. I'm a Simpson.

I'm a Simpson in the Mona Lisa. The Mickey or human. I know, but I'm a human. Does he have to be a real human? What about Elvis? What about you? What are you called when an animal brings? The Queen!

It's the Queen! Oh my god, they're Queen! I wanted to do this topic! Oh, really? Did you actually? Yeah, it's on my list of like potential topics Matt, have you also considered this topic? Never. That's brilliant! Matt's sitting there thinking, I hate the Queen, I'm very anti-roil.

By the way, the Queen, her face is grace billions of stamps and bank notes. And legit, I have a little list on my phone of like as like as ideas come up I write them down for like future topics and one of them and I was nearly gonna do it last week I was nearly a queen Elizabeth Queen Elizabeth the second is who we are talking. That's amazing That's the first time this has happened. This is amazing. Is it you a fan? I like it. I think she's sassy. She's cool She's cool. She hips. She withers. She's a pretty cool lady, I was watching a documentary on her and she's pretty, yeah, she's pretty savvy, I quite like her.

Savvy. So that's a yes from Jess, how about you Matt, you into it? Well, I got no problem with her as a person, I've got some sort of a problem with the fact that she's born into the role of Supreme Leader. Oh, big time, yeah. Our country and others. Well, that's really messed up, but I like her. Yeah.

Well, she's not as bad as some Supreme Leader's around the world in terms of... Oh, yeah. What are we going to rank them all? Sure. All right, let's do it, Dave. You kick us off. Kim Jong-in, number one bad guy. And one bad guy.

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Why are you going? That's how he's so powerful. How do you think we know who he is? Come on Matt. I don't know who he is obviously. Well Matt, I'm going to try and win you over with the life of Queen Elizabeth the second. And maybe you too will appreciate, because I, also, when I was growing up, if you'd asked me, I would have said, no royalty, we don't't need that why don't we become a republic but having grown up a little bit

read them into a bit more I feel like she's won me over little bits she's brainwashed me if you will so you'd vote you'd vote no to on a republic vote well maybe I'll ask you that at the end of the show all right you reckon you can convince us These are the things I know about her early life. She was She had a small role in the King's speech She was in there right She's the daughter of the god the starter. Yes, that's right. Sorry. I think she was in that order As an actress. Yeah, she was in the original King's speech character. Her character was in it. Yes, she did the Nazi salute that came No accident. She did it on purpose. She just didn't realize. Yeah, like in the 1930s before Hitler was that But well known to be a before is that bad

For Hitler was that bad. He's a he's a bloody monarchist and an Nazi sympathizer. What else do you have? I can't wait that on me. What I meant was the second World War had not begun yet. Still think we should bring back slavery Dave. Well yeah of course. Davery. What are you talking about? That's when you're a slave to Dave. Other things I know about her. A slave to the sense floor is what I am. She's the longest serving queen I believe. Yes this is true. All right we're gotten out of it. How about you just let Dave tell us the facts. That's shut your hairy mouth. Got hairy mouth. Got about 3,000 words of facts to get through. All right, we're going to take you back. Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was born on the 21st of April 1926.

It was a good year for births. Other people born in that year include Marilyn Monroe. Isn't that weird to think about? Yeah, the's so mad. Hugh Heffner, David Attenborough, Miles Davis, and most notably for my own existence, my grandmother. Oh my god. Seriously Dave, fuck you.

Because I was going to do credits with and mention that she is a savage as my grandfather. Eddie. Eddie. Eddie. Who was turning 90 in 2016. Correct. Wow. Correct. This is so weird.

Because I was really excited to do this topic. So I was like, well, I'm really happy for you. I'm also very annoyed. You know how you could get back at him. How can I get back at him? You could, next week, you could do Elizabeth I, that did show him. I, that had show-in. Elizabeth, that show-ins?

Yeah, she sucked in, fuckhead. Elizabeth I. You can do the time. Her father was Prince... I'd buy Dumbledore in the King's speech. Her father was Prince Albert, the Duke of York, who later became George VI in the King's speech film. And her mother was Elizabeth Duchess of York,

who later became Queen Elizabeth, and even later Elizabeth the Queen mother and the Queen mum. Right she was Queen Elizabeth but not Queen Elizabeth the first. No. Yeah right. So you just another Queen Elizabeth. So she's Queen Elizabeth because her husband became King. Yeah that's interesting. And then when that's a lesser Queen. Yeah and then when a daughter became Queen she had to be called the Queen mother so it wasn't confusing. That's interesting. It is pretty interesting.

So there could be more Queen Elizabeth, but why not just have a second name, like, King Wife or something? And then there's no sort of confusion when you're King Wife. King Wife. Or Supreme Princess. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Head Princess, for me.

Junior Vice President of some Princess is, yeah, yeah, head princess. Junior Vice President of some princess is the great, great granddaughter of Queen Victoria and because Queen Victoria. Who was attended? Oh, very good, left-handed. And her husband, who was also her first cousin, Prince Albert. Albert, and you know, just around our studio here, there were streets, streets Victoria and Albert street either side that you come in on Oh yeah! That's a fact that's a cold hard fact. You've also just told the listeners where we are. Yeah can you explain it somewhere between Victoria and Albert Street.

Out of the yet that they had this is Victoria and Albert. They had nine children that married royalty across Europe. And also cousins. And first cousins, not just like vaguely, first cousins. But so they got nine kids that married royalty across Europe. So because of that, Queen Elizabeth II is related to nearly all of the kings and queens across Europe. So her cousins include King Harold V, King of Norway, Queen Margreta, the second of Denmark, King Juan Carlos,

who recently abdicated the Spanish throne, King Gustaf the 16th of Sweden, and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. Wow, that's pretty cool. And others. At least like the nine kids they kind of spread their seed. So so much. Than just cousins. Second and third cousins. Yeah well you know baby steps. Speaking of baby steps Elizabeth was born via Caesarian section that she stepped out of the womb. Steped out. And red carpet of hints. That's right. When she was young. That wasn't carpet, Jess. When Elizabeth was young have you ever heard this before? Her family called her Lillie bit, Lillie bit, because that's what she called herself when she was young.

She couldn't say Elizabeth. That's so cute. So funny that she would become the queen that we all know. Lillie bit. And respect, Matt. Well, no, we all know. Her only sibling was Margaret, who was born in 1930. So there's four years difference between them,

which is Margaret, and they were educated at home under the supervision of Marion Crawford, who Princess Margaret called Crawfie, which I love that. Oh, Crawfie. Oh, Crawfie. And you don't, can you imagine Crawfie trying to tell her off for calling her Crawfie? Don't call me Crawfie. You can't, she's a princess, you can't.

You can't tell her off. Well, when I looked into Crawfie's background, she was like being their supervisor over there at education, but she wasn't a teacher at all, rather that while studying to become a child psychologist, she just got a summer job as the governor of Lord Elgons children, and that's Elizabeth's mother, the Duchess of York, was a distant relative of Lord Elgons, so he just said, oh, this bird is looking after my kids, doing a pretty good job, so she just gets a royal job like out of her summer job, and she stayed there until 1948.

Do you reckon that would have paid well? Oh, I reckon you could probably get good benefits, you'd live on the grounds. It'd be quite demanding though, I imagine. Oh, demanding. It would be demanding, not demanding, but demanding. Yeah, I don't know what happened there. You used to be in very English, you would would Lord Elgin I've been hanging out too many

South Australians they had a bunch of different teachers coming in and out including some native French speakers who taught Elizabeth French correct oh oh Spanish Crawford Indonesian Bucky lucky I'm not a fan of the English language, but I'm not a fan of the English language. I'm not a fan of the English language, but I'm not a fan of the English language. I'm not a fan of the English language, but I'm not a fan of the English language. I'm not a fan of the English language, but I'm not a fan of the English language. I'm not a fan of the English language, but I'm not a fan of the English language.

I'm not a fan of the English language, but I'm not a fan of the English language. I'm not a fan of the English language, to go. We've all got the racism out. We'll move on with the show. But apparently in groups, you were all just saying in the movie. Only you were being racist there, Dave, as it turns out. Well, I didn't say it, so, excuse me. Don't, don't sue me. Speaking of being sued Crawford, later published a book about Elizabeth as a child without permission

from the royal family. And they were pissed. Quote, the first note of displeasure for Crawford came when she failed to receive a Christmas card from the royal family in the year of publication. So, in the old days, kings and queens could like chop your head off, but now in the modern times, if you're off the Christmas card list, you know you hate it. That is funny because that is like a's like a bit of a joke or a cliche when people say well they're off their Christmas card this but it

was a real credit point and when Kroffey died in 1988 neither the Queen the Queen mother Nord Princess Margaret sent a wreath to her funeral oh that is the ultimate they sent like bouquets of flowers and other things but no Ray for that was a real kick in a tape. Yeah, they attended the funeral and paid for it for the rate publicly mourned for her but no With Krofi's book described the young feature Queen's love of horses and dogs her orderliness her attitude of Responsibility. Oh, yeah, that is scandalous. No one of those opinions. That was pissed off. Winston Churchill described Elizabeth when she was two years old as quite a character. She has an error of authority and reflectiveness. I'm sure Churchill said it correctly.

You've got to you've got to do that in the church of voice. Please. Could you... you're the king of English accents and we've been requested that you do more of them. So I just say she has an air of authority in the church Alexa Please she has a terrible Pretty good see the trick there was that was actually mass we had a recording of church That was the actual recording. Yeah Well, you cut that in later I assume. Yeah. Can you can you do that? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. That's great. In 1937. That's going to make me sound really smart.

So that's great. I need this. You need this. In 1937, which he was 11 years old, the first Buckingham Palace company was formed to allow the Princess Elizabeth to be a girl guide. Oh my goodness. So maybe they're private girl guides. They were made up of other royals and childrens of royal staff and there were 20 girl guides just hanging around all sort of pelling up. That is the cute thing ever.

She's like, Daddy, I'd very much like to try the girl guides. How is that cute? And then so they just make her guides. How is that cute? And then so they just make her one. It's so cute, Matt. Ah, I mean that's only cute to you because you're from the afloor east. Anyone else would say that that is over the top and that their resources should be used for better things. How about this, Matt?

Send them to the girl guides and make them learn just some lessons from real world It's just not safe, but out there for a queen You would think that being a future queen she would demand to be top in the girl guys But no Matt, she is very diplomatic Princess Elizabeth was actually elected second of the King Fischer Patrol With a slightly older cousin Patricia Mountbatten as her patrol leader what I mean that's fair enough her older cousin got to yeah but her older cousin's not a goddamn princess yeah but the princess thing that's the point it doesn't it doesn't mean anything no that's what I'm saying it doesn't mean anything to her she let the older

cousin have a good doesn't mean anything to anyone as she just happened to be born like her her sister Margaret was born four years later if Elizabeth died for some reason as a child Which the royals tend to do because of the inbreeding then all of a sudden Margaret would have been the queen for 50 years But instead Margaret's just some idiot no one really knows anything about a part of share the beehive hair cut And she's like away in the forest somewhere. She's that I was she sure she's out alive She's not on a single coin. Yeah, because she's been away in the forest somewhere. I'm quite a lot. She's that, well, she's sure, she's that a lot, but she's not on a single coin. Yeah, because she's been dead for a long time.

That is pretty funny. Was it in breeding related? Well, she died at 15 years back. Anyway. I wasn't laughing at her dying, I was laughing at that space. She's like, how much 80's own beard then? What a...

While you were going off on your little rant there, my next line written here is, so she's a young royal, who's having his normal childhood as she royally can. She's trying to have a go. Having setting up a private... Kingfisher. Kingfisher Girl God's group is adorable.

It is adorable. I'm also imagining her as like a cartoon character So as a child she's just always wearing a little crown. She's always got a little T.R. on. I don't know why Little cute. Can't Matt. That's beautiful. That's so cute little girl wearing a little T.R. on just all the time That's small pretend. And not even dress up. She's just got one. Yeah, no, you're right fair enough That's good. Exactly. She doesn't need to dress up. She is the damn princess But during during her grandfather's reign Elizabeth was actually third in line to the succession of the throne behind her uncle Edward

Prince of Wales and her father who was the king's second son Yeah, because guy peers dropped it. He only had it. Are you going to go into that? Oh, yeah, so I'm going to go into that. So it was a big story when she was born. People were pretty happy for a princess to come along. But no one really ever expected it to become a queen. Because her uncle Edward was young and healthy. Plus, if her parents had ever had a son, she would be pushed back further down the chain. So they were thinking, if they have a son, she'll be fourth.

But when her grandfather George V died in 1936, her uncle Edward VII became the king. God be his. However, only months into his reign, he caused a constitutional crisis when he proposed marriage to Wallace Simpson, who was an American socialite who had divorced her first husband and was seeking a divorce from her second husband. You know why we're controversial? Because she wasn't a blood relative.

I'm afraid, well Simpson is not your second cousin at all, that would. It was controversial, Matt, because as the British monarch, as king, he was also the head of the Church of England, which back then did not allow divorced people to remarry if their expouses were still alive. So it's widely believed that... So you could get divorced, but then you both just had to live separately and be miserable. Yes, correct, of course. Well that doesn't make any sense. Why? Except from the Catholics in the first place to have divorce, so they're not be able to get on with your life anyway. Just stay in your miserable marriages. Well Henry VIII killed the his wife, so he was able to, because he kept charging.

But he killed two of their two wives, two of six. But isn't that, that was the big reason for the split, right? Oh yes, he enulled some of them, which is different from a divorce, and then others. Yes, so he wrote things like, she was plotting against the King. I've got a cut chop overhead or it wasn't a proper marriage stuff like that. Yeah, we never.

Yeah. So, but it was widely believed that Edward could not marry while a Simpson to remain on the throne because it would look super hypocritical. So he put his cards on the, and they thought that, oh, if we say that to him, he'll just back away. But he put his cards on the table and in order to marry Simpson, he abdicated the throne in December 1936, so less than a year after being king.

And people speculated that she was marrying him for money, but they remained married until his death 35 years later. So they showed everyone. I was going to ask you there, actually. Oh, that's quite nice. Good for them. Good for them. In a way, her name's Wallace, though.

Can we talk about that for a minute? Yes, there's some great Wallace's, over time. Willy Wallace. Wallace's, Ronald. Willy Wallace. Danny Wallace. Okay, made me another female Wallace. Terry Wallace.

AFL coach. Another female Wallace. Ooh. Terry Wallace's wife. Mrs. Wallace. Mrs. Wallace. Well played. Yeah, exactly. Terry Wallace's wife Mrs Wallace's Wallace well played yeah exactly there's gotta be no other Wallace's walless there's no walleye so Elizabeth's father Albert's became tweeting with your wallesses with a walless your favorite

top ten wallesses we want a bus article. I think we'd be really good on a commercial radio. Tweety-in. Next in now with your favorite wall. So Elizabeth's father, Albert had to step in and become King and his brother's place. Where's he they called him? And he chose the Ragnol name. Do you have you heard that word before? Ragnol. R-E-G-N-A-L. It just means his King name or reign name. Do you have you heard that word before? R-E-G-N-A-L. It just means his king name or rain name. George the sixth to try and

win over the public because he's like, no, I'm like my dad. An Albert, yes, it wasn't as cool. That is interesting to do that because yeah, that often, that did, I think I was pretty common for a while, but not, not really anymore, right? Well, only because there's been one one for real since yeah fake or but but I do say the six six George the sixth sixth why what do you think I'm saying I thought you said six I don't know a lot of people say six but it's six but it's always sounds really

weird to me six it's six it's an interesting one. What would you say? I say sixth. But I know plenty of people say sixth and a lot of English people say sixth. I don't really hear it. Are you hearing the difference? Yes. What's go one and then the other? Six. Sixth. Oh, so George the Sixth. So, six. Sixth. He said it wrong that time. Sixth. Six. He said it wrong that time. Six. Six. Or six.

Leaving out the X sound. Or so six. Or Sith, like Sith Lord from Star Wars, is that what you're trying to do? Or Sith. George the Sith. Six. George the Sith. Six. Anyway, I say six. You say six. Jess says six. There's no weirdos here in the room. But I reckon if you go to the tape, the first time I think you said six. I think you may have. That's definitely possible. And it's okay, we still love and accept you. I just find that interesting, because I reckon there's heaps here.

Well, maybe. I don't even know if one's wrong, because I, like, I've heard a lot of smart people, smarter than me say, sixth. So I figure that maybe that's unacceptable. Well, maybe I was just trying to draw attention to the King's speech impediment, which was, as of course, discussed in the film. Uh-huh. George VI was the first head of the newly created, that was right, wasn't it?

Oh, fuck who cares. George the Sixth was the first head of the newly created Commonwealth. And 1936 became known as the Year of Three Kings. And just 10 years old Elizabeth became the heir to the throne. So she is next baby. That's pretty scary to be 10. 10 years old. I already feel bad enough for bloody Prince William, yeah?

It's not far off for him. He's in work. So I just put him in Garpe's side, but then you don't have to take it. True, good point. But then, you know, he definitely will. He does all of the brotherhood. He's in Will's case.

Wouldn't he be handing that off to his son? Yeah, but Charles' next... Yeah, Charles' next. But Charles is getting old, but I reckon Charles would take it, obviously, to have his moment in the spotlight, but also to give Will more time, just to be a normal person with his fan. I reckon Charles' is just a big old family man. You reckon, you reckon Will's being a normal person at the moment? Yeah, I do. I think he's just spend

his down to earth and he's just spending time raising his young family. Who are you people? Don't feel like. It's so weird. This is, I can't believe any of this exists. Still, it feels like like this is going to say ridiculous to people in a hundred years. This was a podcast think this way. Oh yeah, that's definitely true Well, we've got 60 years ago through During World War II to keep safe from the bombing raids Elizabeth and Margaret spent most of their time in Windsor Castle It was about 35 kilometers. It's a pub just on Chapel Street Good pub No, it's 35 kilometers west of London. That's so, yes, so they could say safe. Then in February 1945, she joined, this is Elizabeth, the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service,

which is the Women's Branch of the British Army at the time. Oh, lady army. That's right, Matt. She trained as a driver and mechanic and was promoted to honorary junior commander five months later. What do you think about that? I think honorary equals bullshit. Well I've seen a photo of a tinkering with an engine. They give the honorary things to famous people who want to they're coming in as a tourist

to a real people job or study at a university and they go, oh, you're an honorary, because your ringo star, you're an honorary philosophy doctor, or whatever, philosophy doctor. I'm a smart guy, but they're the kind of things that happen. And that's a fact. A ringo, a ringo, a ringo says I'm good stuff, man. So do you wish I'd have ringoed down?

Well, do you like an honorary doctorate in? I'd like one of the quay had the mechanic the the lady I'm a mechanic I like a doctor it in our PE okay because I was always rubbish at school I just like to go back to my high school PE teacher and be like I'm a fucking doctor of basketball you fuck I I was gonna say I'm a miss and you miss because you don't have a throw I don't. And then I throw a basketball in his face. And you miss it. And you miss it because you don't have a throw in basketball. And then I say, I don't give a fuck, I'm a king. Well, technically, now I'm a doctor, but... Still good.

Still good. Still good. Still honorary. I'm on the honor roll that made up university. But after World War II, after all this, Matt, in 1947, Princess Elizabeth, a little bit, I can't say any more, went on her first overseas tour accompanying her parents through Southern Africa.

Then we get to her marriage. Do you know her husband's name? No, it's Philip. It's what points us together. It is Philip. Philip. Philip. He was a, was he like a Greek prince or something? That's right.

Well, he's now 94 years old. Oh, sorry. Did you break? Oh, yes. Prince Philip, who was the prince of Greece and Denmark when he was born? Greece and Denmark through his family. So he was already a prince. Yeah, he was born in Greece.

Of being her prince, charming. So he was born in Greece. Well, I in Greece. So he was born in Greece. I don't think anyone has ever called him Charming. That guy. Oh, Greek. Well, you say he's not charming. Now he's 94 years old. He's the oldest ever male member of the British Royal family.

So he's doing well. But he was born as the Prince of Greece and Denmark. Born in Greece. But his family was exiled from the country when he was still in infants, so that's why it doesn't sound Greek. So he was educated in France, Germany and the UK, and joined the British Royal Navy for real mat, not on a railroad, but actually in 1939 at the age of 18. But he was, he's Greek.

Yeah. No, he's not Greek. He's not Greek Wait there he's all he's related to Queen Victoria as well So he's but these Greek I sound like I hate Greek I certainly don't know I just don't he just doesn't look Greek What are the Greek look like I don't know What did the Greek look like? I don't know.

Please move on. Met Elizabeth for the first time at a cousin's wedding in 1934 when she was age just 80 years old. A little bit of age? He's for his older, so 12. They brought children. Oh, thank God. Oh, he was 23, yeah. They crossed paths again in 1937, and then again in July 1939, and Elizabeth, then only

13 years old, fell in love with Philip, and they began to exchange letters. Oh, I don't ever make that noise ever again. I'd hear it back on the headphones, and I'll have to hear it back when I edit it. The couple became secretly engaged seven years later, so she really held out for him. In 1946, when Philip asked George the sixth for his daughter's hand in marriage, the king granted his request providing that any formal engagement was delayed until Elizabeth was 21 years old, the following April. So they kept it under wraps for a bit. The engagement was announced in July 1947 publicly, and then they got married in Westminster Abbey in November

of that year, which is not enough time for people to buy a present. Or to really plan a wedding. No, four months well look while they did receive over two and a half thousand wedding presents from around the world so you say it's not enough time to buy presents it seems like it was plenty of time and they got 10,000 telegrams of congratulations that's too many you can't read all those how long that take you remember after my twenty first how we did like go through all the presents right down what's so and so got me bloody how what an effort and they got like ten presents did you write it down so you could like rank your friends on how generous they were?

Yeah of course you did. Of course I did. Are you were saying so he was already a prince but before the marriage Philip renounced his Greek and Danish titles converted from Greek Orthodoxy to Anglicanism and then the king bestowed the new title of the Duke of Edinburgh upon him the day before they got married. But imagine if he'd renounced being a prince. She gets cold feet or dies or something. They have to call the wedding off and he's left with no prince titles. Imagine the horror mat. Oh, that would be the worst.

Oh boy. What do you do? I think she gets cold feet or dies. Could have happened. Hey, you know what can happen to any of us at any time? Life is flea. Look at Princess Margaret. Take advantage. Well, I can't. She's dead. Yes, she's dead. Yes, I can. I hope they're stuffed here full. Oh, David. But because the wedding was only a couple of years after the Second World War,

clothing was still being rationed at the time, so Elizabeth still had to purchase the material using ration coupons. Yeah, I read that recently, I like that. See, she's cool. She's not like, uh-uh-uh, I ain't no queen getting married in rags. Yeah, that's right. I'm getting married in silk that I've bought with ration coupons. Yeah, and Duregan, she's continued to live her life that way. Yeah, well, there's a lot of poverty in her commonwealth. She. Commonwealth. And she lives in a castle, one of many castles that she owns.

Well, she did her own makeup for the wedding. For a tea-goo. I would not be doing my own makeup for a wedding. You know, no peasants would do that. I don't do my own makeup for a wedding. I brought an after-a-gan fight, Dave, and I got shot. That's right. Every war has a few casualties, and you are one of them, Matt.

Sorry, Matt. A lot of royalty from around the world attended the wedding, but post-war Britain, it was not acceptable for the Duke of Edinburgh's, this is Phillips. German relations to be invited to the wedding, including Phillips' three surviving sisters, who married German princes, two of whom fought for the Nazis. There it is, a reference to the Nazis ticked.

Now we need to get in his tism and the simpsons, which I think we talked about the sins at the start. Yeah, I'm a simpsons. Come on, Matt, you can do it. Not right now, it can be any moment, don't force it. No, great. So, at first I was like, okay, really unfair that he can't invite his own sisters to his wedding. And they're like, married to German princes, yeah, but that doesn't mean for fanaticism. Okay, well, yeah, maybe we can just catch up at Christmas.

Yeah, okay, yeah. Seeing a couple of years. And when was this? Wait, do this all blow so far. What are you saying? This is a couple of years after the... Because remember what Dave did say earlier that the Nazis, you know, they weren't That bad, I think you said so just took him caught in a day of it depending on when it was the Nazis

We did a lot of good stuff Is this not peak bad Nazi time after bad Nazi time? Yeah, Hitler died in 1945 everyone. Oh, then so they good again the not went to the Nazis The Nazis good now definitely not would you describe yourself as a like some sort of a. So they're good again? They're not went to do the Nazis. The Nazis are good now. Definitely not. Would you describe yourself as like some sort of a new or neo-naut type of Nazi? Definitely not. Yeah.

Getting some real mixed messages from them. Me too. Matt, you know what I meant and that was it wasn't as well, lean-own how bad the regime was going to become when as a child child, she did the hitless salute. They weren't that bad yet, Matt. At Granger, we're for the ones who specialize in saving the day and for the ones who've mastered the art of keeping business moving. We offer industrial grade supplies for every industry, with same day pickup and next day delivery on most orders,

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Mary and She had four kids right? That's right. Have you said that already? Princess Mary's the duck two girls two boys No three three three girls one boy three boys one girl three boys one girl. All right. Let's see if we can do it. I mean Charles and Ed yes, that's good and a one more prince one more prince my old car look like Charles right they'll go that why is Charles the main event he's the old he's the air to the threat that's all

guess that may be married Diana which was and she was she was the people loved her it would say Charles and it would She was a... She was a... But the people loved her. They loved her friends. It would, so Charles and Andrew. And Andrew, that is right. Andrew, that is right. But that's not for a little bit, because we're going to get through the 50s. He was an accident.

During 1951, George VI SAX, or V1, I'm going to call him John. I didn't do the accent. I'm going to do George V1. He's health declined and Elizabeth frequently stood in for him at public events. So she's training up to be the queen when he's not well. She's doing all the public stuff. It's not well. Yes.

Her secretary started carrying a draft a session in case he passed on once he was away So the paperwork that she'd have to fill out when if her dad died, which was lucky because in 1952 Elizabeth and Philip set out for a tour of Australia and New Zealand and on the way they stopped off at Kenya as one does On the way. Tell me Philip didn't say anything to anyone. Oh it's fine. He probably did but I don't have that written down. Thank God. On the 6th of February 1952 they had just returned to their sagana lodge after a night spent at the exclusive tree tops hotel for a bit of a drink and a can of pay. When word arrived. He'd say you don't know that. I don't know that at all. When word arrived at the death of the King, Dave's funeral now. He's top-cat of school.

Yeah, I'm so sorry, Queenie. But Word arrived of the death of the King, George V I, which meant Elizabeth would immediately become the Queen. Philip heard the news first and he took a recite and let her know, which I think is very nice thing to do. Well, yeah, Dave. What do you let her know? He let her know, which I think is very nice thing to do. Well, yeah, Dave. What do you let her know?

He let her know her dad died. Yeah, and he did it in a very sensitive way. Yeah, weren't you about what about that Prince of Denmark and Greece? That way, how will you expect for him to do it? I think she could have found out another way. Rided on his fist and punch her in the arm. They play, they play a charade's kissing game.

Your, oh, my dad is, oh, something something, dead. My dad is dead, yes. Oh, oh, shit. My turn. I just like it. It's like, well, you know, her husband told her. Oh, yeah. I think that was the right thing to do, yes.

You would. If I had a partner who found out that my parent had died and didn't tell me. Well, you know how you are with that kind of news. You know, put a major role in motion. It would ruin the whole safari. Yeah, we were having a nice time. We had those drinks.

We had those canopies. That's right. She chose to keep the name Elizabeth, because you could have had a regnal name and she immediately returned to the United Kingdom and moved straight into Buckingham Palace. I don't even have time to change the sheets. Yeah, they took him out in the sheets. It rolled him up.

I've got a quite here. It's another touching moving moment to melt your heart, Matt. The legendary hunter, oh that's not a good suck, it's true, and I'm a guy. With the legendary hunter. And by animal guide you just made vegetarians. Well, no, we've talked about it on a previous episode. Anyway, the legendary hunter, Jim Corbett, who did a lot of killing animals, but he also hunted man, eating tigers and leopards, ones that were attacking people in India. He was also staying at the lodge at the time, and he wrote this in the lodges' Visitors log book.

For the first time in history of the world, a young girl climbed into a tree one day a princess, and after having what she described as her most thrilling experience She climbed down from the tree the next day a queen God bless her Sounds like something somebody would say about Beyonce. That's that should be the thought of my book. I love that It is really good. I like how He stressed that it was of the world not just in history of like the universe All you know that's right know, at a space or something. No, no, he's a real sick man. Yeah.

She was queen at just 25 years old. No. I can't, guys. I know we're 25. I've done nothing. I'm not a queen. She never did anything either. Oh, good point.

Okay. This is born. Matt, come on. She hasn't achieved anything. She just stayed alive long enough. It's an awful lot of responsibility 55 more years to when you've done that if someone said Your queen now you're like all right. Have you seen the Go with it. Have you seen the Princess Darius?

I see exactly what happens No, I haven't I mean I've seen it Oh, Matt, this lady Roxubban says, hey, you're the air to my throne. And is it Mary Poppins plays that lady? Julie Andrews. Julie Andrews. That's all right. And Anne Hathaway. I do get confused sometimes.

When I listen back to the future episode, I did a couple times refer to Michael J. Fox's Marty McFly. The actor Marty McFly. Oh boy. Oh boy. It's an easy mistake. The Queen's coronation was held as when she becomes Queen the ceremony. On the 2nd of June 1953, which is- Do you appreciate the mansplain there?

He didn't look at me when he said that. I didn't. Yeah, I know when a lady got given a big crown and some jewels. Of course I know. You know, a coronet is French for crown and that is where the word coronation comes from. What about corona though? That is also crown in Spanish. Ah! Oh look, I'm saying these like they're definitely facts. I do not know that either of those are true and that is a fact

Well, you backed it up with a fact. I made a really sexist joke before and I just want to point out that I was just kidding What was your joke? Yeah, that'd be right. Don't even hear me I said of course I know the day that a woman got given like jewels and things because of course I would know that because I'm a woman But I didn't need say like because I thought it was just just backing on from you talking about how you of course you watch the princess story. Oh okay yeah that makes my sense. I was just worried that I'd come across as a sexist prick and you know. No I think you're the one.

Well Matt secures me to being a neo-nazi on this episode so I think it's alright. I didn't accuse him I posed a question. And it was a very very lawyer like way. I put it to you Mr Mr. Warnocky. I watched making a murder recently. I've just started. Shut up. Don't say anything.

I've started rewatching the X-Files. I'm not talking about it. If you want to talk about it, that'd be really good. The Queen's Coronation was held in June 1953, which if you're a timeline person, you'd like to write out the timeline when you listen. That's one year and four months after the death of her father. Took a long time so the commonwealth could have a time of mourning. But they planned the wedding in four months. No, but they needed a year, they announced the coronation one year

beforehand. So in trivia, which you're involved in a bit and this question would come up sometimes, when someone says, when did Queen Elizabeth the second become queen? Do you say it was from 1952? It is from 1952. From the South African. But the coronation is just making it official. Yes, I'm yeah. 53 talking about that's my dad's birth year. There you go. Ah. That's a cold hard fact. I guess like I wasn't there. That's a pretty cold hard., you guys had got to talk about your nanas. I know, I wasn't as good mate, yeah.

Oh fuck you. I don't know. Oh, there was a massive parade, massive parade for the coronation, including 10,000 service personnel marching. I'll give the feel of it. You can do it. 3 million spectators gathered in the streets of London. Can you do the sound of 3 million people please?

The majority of what you're doing is physical. Totally is. Some people can't visual even. I mean everything's just... Some people camped overnight just to get a good spot. Others having access to specially built stands and scaffolding along the road. The event was televised. It was the first televised coronation and also the only one so far. And it was the world's first major international event to be broadcast on TV. More than 20 million viewers around the world watched the coverage, which at the time is a lot because you know that famous Good Evening and welcome to television in Australia. That was 1956, so this is three years before that. Yeah, right.

It's really hard. How could you know about that bit of footage? That's not even the original one. Assembly in acting, isn't it? Yeah, isn't that funny? It's not that funny. It's hilarious, just think about it. Perhaps, but not funny.

I don't think it's quite kicked in yet. When you get it, it's a night. You were going to piss yourself. You were. Watch out, Blanner. Elizabeth's coronation gown. This is she's a man of the Commonwealth. And I say man because I stuffed up. She's a woman of the Commonwealth because her gown was embroidered on her instructions with the floral emblems of Commonwealth countries. She had English Chuderoes, Scots, Thittle, Welch, Leake, Irish Shamrock, Australian Wattle, probably heard of that one, Canadian Maple Leaf, New Zealand, Silver Fern, South African Protea, Lotus Flowers for India and Salon, which is later called Sri Lanka, and Pakistan's Wheat, Cotton,

and Yut. I don't know why they get three but they do. Matt come on that's really nice. She's covered in flowers for you man. She's a woman of the people. Yeah also a man of the people. Where are the flowers? All over again. All over again. She smells terrible. No actually. They wouldn't go together at all. Also it's the actual flowers okay Okay, so- No, they're just how they're embroidered? Oh, embroidered. Floral emblems, pardon me. She's their pictures of flowers. She's pictures.

No, I don't think- They're probably scratch and sniff though, aren't they? Oh, no, you're definitely. That does help the poor people throughout the Commonwealth. He's all that animals and poor people, isn't he? Yeah, come on, Matt. Have a bit of fun.

She's put on a fucking cool costume. Jesus. I'm all about poor. I'm so big of fun. That's so good. Matt, if you ever choose to get married, I've got a great plan for you to pay for your wedding. Oh, great.

Guests from across the Commonwealth are. Why do you say if Matt chooses to get married? What if I choose to get married? Thanks for assuming that everybody would want to marry me as I used to always say first you've got to get someone of the opposite sex to talk to you Which I have done and you are still sitting over there. Have you ever even spoken to it dude? No shut up. Yeah, it's always three steps. He's always three steps. Oh, no, we're played well played. Yes, if you always used to say what

it is that you know when you say some bullshit to help you get enough time to think of the thing that you've stopped the conversation so you can say something. Look, as I always you as my puppet always said to me, first, I'm so sorry. Well, if anyone wants to get married, okay, and I support both sexes, all sexes getting married, I just wanted to say this. If anyone wants to get married, I've got a plan for you and Elizabeth pioneered this in the 50s. Or actually, it's not even her wedding anymore, is it? It's, if you ever want to become king, and you want to pay for the ceremony,

I'll change everything. I've got a plan for you. Guess from across the Commonwealth, be good to do for the wedding as well. Guess from across the Commonwealth were invited. And those lucky enough to be seated on stools were able to purchase theirs following the ceremony and take them home with the profits going towards the cost of the coronation. So you have

a wedding or an event or even the comedy festival next year, sell your tickets and then at the end of the show sell the seats so people have something to remember you buy. The seats aren't mine to begin with. Who gives a fuck? Sell them anyway. Sell them. Wait, so was this the wedding of the coronation? That's the coronation. You can be applied to any event. I'm a mogul.

Now Matt, I've obviously been doing a lot of praise over here trying to make you like Quenalismeth the second, but I've got a bit, bit of negative now, trying to balance out my thing. Yeah, because I'm bored at this stage. She's been around forever, but she is arguably the least successful queen in the Kingdom's history. As during her time of the throne, 16 countries have left the Commonwealth realm. No, I don't think that's her. So Fiji, gone. Gambia, gone.

Ghana, Kenya, gone. Malta,acaston gone Trinidad and Tobago I hear you say gone and that's just the name of you most of this happening in the 70s and 80s I don't think that's because of her I think that's just the world changing man That's why it's a lie. It's the world changing and she's been there for so long all all her others died So all the princesses died so early because they all married their cousins and they were missing bits and and so they didn't have very long reign So how could they be without success? But she's been doing it for 50 years. She's the best shut up. She's pretty good and she is the queen of 16 countries still That are pretty good. Hey, Matt how many countries are you the queen of?

None exactly, but she has lost half her Bit realms, but she hey, they're not they didn't they leave the Commonwealth though Or did they just leave they so now they're all like republics and things like that They can still be in the Commonwealth like it's gonna be in the Commonwealth games and things like this and the Commonwealth They're no longer coming wealth realms. What's the Commonwealth games then you don't have to be in the Commonwealth Well done because so many left that if it was just us Who's left now would be pretty shit? Well the Commonwealth, you mean the Commonwealth game. Well down because so many left that if it was just us who's left now would be a pretty shitty... Well the Commonwealth is just an association of things that were once under...

Yeah, so you stay in the Commonwealth but you know it can be your... But she's now like the Queen. Like is Canada still in the... Yeah, they're still... Yeah, they're still part of it all. They're one of her realms. The Commonwealth game's great because there's no America, so we actually have a chance.

Or China. Canada's the Philan America. Yeah, but they're much nicer. They're much nicer in the way that they don't spend too much money on sports. Our sports here. Ooh, topical. So then we get to the 70s.

In 1977, she celebrated her silver Jubilee with 25 years on the throne. Woo! Good on her. Then in 1982, a man named Michael Fagan broke into Queen Elizabeth's bedroom in Buckingham Palace. Oh my God. While she was sleeping. What? That seems crazy. So he broke, she broke, he, this guy, Fagan broke into Buckingham Palace twice.

So on the morning of Friday, the night... Oh, is that Paul, the July? Oh no, so I'll tell you, in 1982, in July, Fagan, who was then a 33-year-old unemployed decorator, he just scaled the, uh, Palace 4.3 or 14- foot high perimeter wall, which had Rolving spikes barbed wire or this stuff. He got over that then he climbed up a drain pipe Before wandering into the Queen's bedroom He'd entered the palace to an unlocked window on the roof and he spent half an hour eating cheddar cheese and crackers I'm just wandering around no one stopped him. He tripped several alarms, but they were faulty, so they weren't working. So no one came to tell him off. If you'd

the royal portraits, he rested on the throne for a little bit, just sat down and have it. He went into the poster room where Diana, Princess of Wales, had hidden presence from her first son, William. He drank half bottle of wine before becoming tired and he left. What? Then on his second attempt, he came back and back and alarm sensor detected him, but police thought the alarm was just being faulty and they just silenced it. He wandered the palace corridors again for several minutes before reaching the section where the royal apartments are located.

And he broke a glass astray which cut his hand and then he was still carrying a piece of the glass when he entered the Queen's bedroom She woke up when he disturbed a curtain and she left the room immediately and She'd phone the palace switchboard twice for police None came immediately and fagin the guy that broke in he asked for some cigarettes and apparently I made brought them to him I guess he was just so used to have been told what to do. He was like, game is some cigarettes. He was like, yes sir.

He's in the Queen bedroom I must say. Why hasn't a movie been made about him? That's the best. It's great. I've been to Buckingham Palace right. It's very big. I don't know how he managed to find her bedroom. It's amazing isn't it?

It was his second attempt. Oh true. To be fair. When I was wandering around looking at all the exhibition he managed to find her bedroom. It's amazing, isn't it? It was his second attempt. True. When I was wandering around looking at all the exhibition stuff in there, there was a little part of me that thought it'd be really cool. If Queen Lizzy was just wandering past on her way to the kitchen to get a cuppa, that'd be cool. She's really like slippers. Don't mind me.

I'll be so good. That'd be so good. I will just say that this guy... That's amazing. So Fagin's still in the bedroom and then, uh, still, how long it was this? That's very good. That is very good.

So he gets escorted out by two policemen and, um, Quindless with footman Paul Wybrew who's written nickname, Big Paul, because he's six foot four. And they took him out. But at the time, it was a civil wrong rather than a criminal offence, so he was not charged for trespassing into the Queen's bedroom. It was only 2007 that it became illegal to trespass under Buckingham Palace. Before the end he could not- Could you even get in trouble for that? Well, he went to a psychiatric ward for six months, but that was because he was unstable.

But, yeah, it wasn't technically illegal. But in 1983, Michael Fagan recorded a cover version of the Sex Pistols song, God Save the Queen, with the British punk band, the Bollock Brothers. No. He did a guess, folks. Oh my God. Because so the first time it sounds like no one ever knew

he was there, so he must try that. Yeah, it doesn't even happen later. So we're time it sounds like no one even knew he was there. Yeah, and then they found out later. So we're going off his memory of it, this unstable man. Well, I found the empty empty wine. Well, actually, when they first arrested him, charged him for the cheese and wine theft. Right. But then they dropped that because there's not much of a charge.

That is illegal, because he did technically steal half a bottle of wine and cheese and crackers. I also quite like to think when you say charge they're like invoiced him. Yeah, that was a really expensive range. If you could reimburse us for that cheddar cheese. Then we jump to the 90s, we're getting through it now. Oh, yes. In a speech of the 24th of November 1992, to mark the 40th anniversary of her recession,

Elizabeth called 1992 her Anis Horribulus which means horrible year. That's right but it sounds a lot like if you look at it written down Anis Horribulus which is something else. Her Saki year 1990s. That's a bad butthole. Bad butthole. You said have a bad. This was my worst bottle. This is my bad bottle. This is my bad bottle. But her ears shut. It's better when we got bad.

It's better when we got bad. It's better when we got bad. This is my worst bottle. And she's just like a legs up holding my head. It's better when we got bad. It's better when we got bad. This is my horrible penis. She's sitting on her throne, legs up. And like the crowd and people take her photos.

I'm pretty sure that's. I'm sure that she's yelling at people. Take a picture or last longer so they do. Yeah. No, no, no, that's a no. Any that worth saying? Well, I'll tell you her. I don't feel like I've said or single thing today that's been worth saying, but you continue

to speak. Here we are. So 1992, she got an anis-hribblous because this is what happened in a sucky year. In March her second son, Prince Andrew and his wife Sarah, you know Fergie, separated. They're delicious. Her daughter, Princess Ann, divorced Captain Mark Phillips during a state visit to Germany in October, angry demonstrators threw eggs at her and in November a large fire broke out in Windsor Castle.

And the monarchy came under increased criticism and public scrutiny. So it was a bad year for old Queenie. Yes, it was for their bough-holes. It was my anus forabillies. It was something like that. Next year, let's have their baffles. It's my anus, orbillies. It was something like that. Next year, let's have a good one, okay. Then we cruise past... Lizzie Owl.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. He drops the mic. It's a golden mic. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. We cruise past through the 90s, Diana and Charles divorce, Diana dies, sadly, all that kind of stuff. Oh, okay, brush over the death of Diana. Yeah, I'll brush over that.

September, 1997. We all remember where we were. I was watching the Saints' Beat Port Adelaide to finish on top of the ladder to be seated first in the 1997 final series. What a time to be alive. In 1999, Australia, we had a chance to get rid of the Queen, held a national referendum to amend our constitution, become a republic, with the president replacing the Queen. And so, President, we have to have a Spanish president that's part of the constitution.

So, it was a yes or no vote. Yes, if you want to get rid of the queen No, if you want to keep her the yes campaign was headed by the Australian Republican movement Do you know who the channel? Malcolm turn. Well, that's right our current prime minister Which I think it's got to be super awkward because he'll definitely meet her now. He's the prime minister So that should be cool with that. It was yes or no the results were close 45% of voters were for the change to get rid of her, but 15, nearly 55% and the winners were against. Victoria, I think it was the closest state,

of like something like 49 to 51. Well, the only state of territory were the majority voters. ACP? That's right. See, Matt? Matt's the next word on the bits about hating the queen. Interesting.

They were the only people, the Australian capital territory an expert on the bits about hating the queen. Interesting. They were the only people, the Australian capital territory. Of Australia's 140- To the whole politicians there. Yeah, it's all well-educated people as well. All right, well, Jesus. Because it's all public servants and stuff as well. So it's all highly educated people.

And funnily enough, they were all for the Republic. Queensland, on the other hand. Yeah, they were the lowest. Shout out to our Queensland fans. Australia's 148 divisions, 42 voted yes, with Melbourne, 70.9%. Yes, Sydney, 67.8%. Being the highest yes areas.

Melbourne were the most anti-Queen. Again, in a city areas, well educated people, just say them. Just say them. It's funny, because you know when things like that happen and they're also like quite progressive normally the age of the city seats. And they get bagged for being highly educated,

university educated, latte sipping people like who gives a shit about it. It's like wait, are you saying their opinions ever invalid because they're well educated and they drink coffee that fucking ridiculous yeah that you should we should listen to these people Matt you're the one who spends the time they're bagging out the affluent east yeah now who's coming yeah I thought you were the that's. I thought you were the working class man. Wait, I'm not I grew up in the East look. I'm I'm full of contradictions But I don't know if Athens equals well educated necessarily

Although it often does I guess not always anyway whatever Well the Queen survives so she's still the Queen of Australia We're on the fair realms and in 2002 the Queen the Queen of Australia, we're on the fair realms. And in 2002, the Queen celebrated her Golden Jubilee, 50 years on the throne. And 10 years later, most recently in 2012, she celebrated her Diamond Jubilee. Do you remember the celebrations, 60 years on the throne? Oh, yes. Her songs.

There's a big concert, right? Yeah, Paul McCann, what about you? Yeah, Paul McCann, what about you? And my favorite bit was Prince Charles making a speech speech and he calls her mummy in his speech. This is like this is that's beautiful because you know what you know what Matt? Yeah, they're a monarchy. Yeah They're the rulers of the country, but you know what else? How they're a bloody family? They're a family. They're like they're all living in a bubble who get to be There's family. There's a fucking living in a bubble who get to be multi-millionaires because we allow

them to be. Yeah, and they still share a really special bond. And he says like, your royal highness, mummy, and it's like, aw, cause you know what, you know what she is? He's mum. Cause at the end of the day, she's just a regular mum. And grandma, she's got grandkids, she's, oh, she's got friends, she's sure she's got friends she's just a regular human never heard of friends well the Queen surpassed her great great-grandmother Queen Victoria to

become the longest lived British monarch in December 2007 and the longest reigning British monarch neither September 2015 she overtooks her now she's the longest ever reigning monarch. Good on her. Her children grandchildren great-grandchildren she's the longest ever Running one I'm pretty good. Good on her her children grandchildren great grandchildren. She's got four children. We talked about eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren suddenly and we're just gonna go through Inline to the throne. Do you know who's next up the order Charles? Charles the number one. Willie. Willie Harry. No, not Harry wouldn't it Harry. Wouldn't it be his, wouldn't it be... Prince George. Oh yeah, he's got a young son. Two sons in it. No, no, George and Charlotte. Charlotte? That's a girl. The number four is Harry.

Princess Charlotte, because in 2013 they passed a law to make it not dependent on gender anymore. Oh great. Which makes most of it. Oh, that is a big step forward, I didn't hear about that. And that's only in 2013 So that's because you was only born then no, I know that's So it embarrassing they hadn't thought of that before then it is funny because like all they are not all of them But a lot of the great British monarchs have been ladies like the current one who was like totally loved And I think a lot of people would say that they're pretty happy And I think a lot of people would say that they're pretty happy as an Australian constitutional monarchy under Queen Elizabeth II. And I think people might have second thoughts under Charles maybe, because he's a bit of a bumbling widow.

And then William. But William I think is popular again, so it'll be interesting to see. We'll see if George and Charlotte turn out all right. And then Prince Harry is after Charlotte. Can I just say, like, if I was somewhere, if I was like second or third to the throne right, I'd be like, please don't come to me, please don't get to me, please don't get to me, right?

So if I was Charlotte and I found out the year I was born, they were like, oh, that's not fair. Let's Charlotte have a go maybe. I'd be like, fuck! But that's only for older brother dies, so I mean, it would be a bit of a damn misery. I wouldn't want it. I wouldn't want that responsibility. No, you just get the sweet laugh without, yeah, you just none of the pressure. Anyway, I'm sorry, Dave, do you go on? I love speculating if I'm being a prince and a princess. Give me the tiara's

any day. Do you think so, Charles? Does he get the, he is what, as long as he's alive, he gets first dibs? Yeah, he's number one Right first in line. I don't think he really gets a choice I think it's like it's you or you abdicate you're like default. Yeah, well, that's what I mean you can default and then And then he could pass on if he was very so see now by that time So he even if he was 102 it'd still be him. Yes. Yeah, right So even if he was 102, it'd still be him. Yes. Yeah, right.

But people like, for example, that King Juan Carlos of Spain, he abdicated to give his son a go, because he felt he was getting too old. But the Queen has said that she won't do that, but Prince Charles has stepped up and started doing more for public appearances, because obviously she's going to be 19 years. Or this year. I'm 25 and I'm tired.

But you know what will keep you going? How about sweet cash? Her wealth is often speculated upon, but the Sunday Times Rich List for 2015 estimated que the list of the second's private wealth to be approximately 340 million pounds. What? Making her the 300 and second richest person in the UK. The Ebroial Collection, which includes thousands of historic works of art, and the famous crown jewels, however,

are not owned by the Queen, but are held in a trust as are her official residences, such as Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle. She doesn't technically own those. But she does have a, which is a property portfolio valued at half a billion pounds. She does have her own property, including Sanderingham Castle and House Punny and Bell Moral Castle.

In Scotland. And she can't sell the British Crown her state's holdings. Sure. It's estimated the Crowns' estate have holdings of Sure. So it's estimated that the Crowns of state have holdings of nearly 10 billion pounds with a B, but she's not allowed to be like, sweet, I don't need this anymore guys. Let's cash it in.

People would notice. What she does own, though, how would she have purchased that? Like, would she have said to her dad, daddy, I'd quite like to fill up a lot. I think we'd like to get a bit of a privateist Scotland. When her mother died, Elizabeth the Queen mother, it was estimated that she inherited 70 million pounds. So they have a private wealth, definitely. What blows my mind when I think about people like her's life is she's probably never

been to an ATM. Yeah, it doesn't. It would be no point. Money, too, doesn't really matter, does it? No, just you have a see-he money with their face on it Well, she just go to people like no, that's what I want. Are they going by it? Yeah, surely You know, she never wears the same outfit twice What happens to them all? She's a real just a real person just a real normal I never wear the same thing twice. I've never seen you wear that top of a fact I have never seen that before or that. No, you've always just never noticed you haven't ever seen that t-shirt though

But that's okay. Thank you. Alright, we're going to end the show as Jess often does with some fun facts. Yeah, fun facts. So we're up to modern day now, but in 2012 to coincide with the diamond Jubilee, a famous building was renamed Elizabeth Tower in her honor. Can you guess which building is in London was renamed Elizabeth Tower? As in permanently?

Permanently. That's what his name... I'm guessing a tower. Yeah, the Tower of London, which I mean I don't know. I think that's just left that Tower of London. The Gyrkin? The Gyrkin, no. No, don't know. It is the clock tower of the Palace of Westminster that everyone calls Big Ben.

What? Its real name is Elizabeth Tower. Because Big Ben is the clock wheel name for the largest bell inside the clock tower. So you used to just be called the clock tower of the Palace of Westminster and now it's officially called Elizabeth Tower. Oh, alright, that's interesting. Fun fact. People want to think it's a named off for a mom or a woman. Oh, all right, that's interesting. Fun fact. People might think it's a named after a mom or a woman.

2012. I was there, and I was calling it a big bend like some kind of idiot. You bloody idiot. But I think that's just one of those facts that is there just to trip people up. You see it on trivia shows all the time. People say what is big bend and people say

it's the clock or the tower. But it basically is, because that's what people people say I don't think anyone's going let's check out Elizabeth Tower this will say big band and no one can see the bell so it's a bullshit fact but it's still technically fun because it's in the fun fact look yeah I feel like maybe you might have felt like that somehow I was having a go at you there when I said that's a load of fucking bull, but I was just joking about.

Yeah, well having a good time. Just some mates having some fun. Fun facts, more fun facts. Fun facts. In a time the queen has answered approximately three and a half million items of correspondence. Wow. You can still write a letter to the queen. My grandparents have received correspondence from the queen.

Because they're a hundred? No, because, well, for their 60th wedding anniversary. That's right. She sends out telegrams to people that live to be a hundred or older in the Commonwealth. Or if you celebrate your 60th wedding anniversary, that's a lovely that they do. And my grandpa wants to get to a hundred just so he gets a letter from her. But he doesn't want, he wants her to still be queen at a hundred. That's one letter from Charles. He's not, he's not.

He's not. So they've just both got to make a hundred. I reckon she could. Yeah, I think so. She's a pretty close. Yeah, I think so. She went pretty close. I'm pretty sure.

Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, she died 8-101. Yes. Nice one. That's it. All right. Queen Elizabeth, the second, in her first 60 years of of reign the Queen undertook 261 official overseas visits and she's visited 116 countries. Imagine her passport.

Would she have a passport? Yes, surely right. How does she fly? Does she ever complain? She's presumably. She has her own plane, yeah for sure. Still. She was the first reigning monarch to visit Australia.

On her first visit, it was estimated that three quarters of the Australian population saw her. See, that's kind of weird, isn't it? That's crazy. It wasn't Harry just here, and I didn't even notice. Yeah, but she was the first ever queen to come. No, I know, but now we don't make it much worse. And also there's a lot less people.

Some of it, I think Charles studied at John Grammar for a little while. Yeah, and maybe that's something. I won't do it, too. Will do it, as well. If you ever meet... There's no more people. at John Grammar for a little while. I will do too. Will do too, as well. If you ever meet... There's no more people at John Grammar. Exactly. If you ever meet the Queen Mat, according to the official royal website,

you should... Men should perform a neck bow from the head only. So a bit of a nod. How are you? How are you, Queen? How are you? Lucy, mate. Might.

Whilst women should do a... Whilst puckering your lips. Keep it'm alright. I'm alright. You'll be alright. Alright. Alright, man. Take the hat off. Take the cap. Don, what? What? What?

What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What?

What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? simply to shake hands in the usual way. Interesting. On presentation to the queen, the correct formal address is your majesty the first time, and subsequently, mom. Mom is in harm, not mom is in harm.

That's from the King's Beach. Oh, that's bloody good. You can write a letter to the queen. You can get some of this correspondence. If you wish to write a formal letter, you can open with Madame and close the letter with this. And I'm sure you'll be writing this. I have the honor to be Madame, your majesty's humble and obedient servant. It then says on the website, you don't have to close, like it says,

you don't have to do that. You know when you say she writes, she's written a million letters, whatever. She's, she's, someone's written it and she's signed it, right? She's not physically gone. Dear Matthew. Thank you so much for the lettering cookies. Cookies. I don't know that name.

For a second I also went, we had to get the name Matthew. That's your name. I, well, we're going to find out when we turn 100 and get it. She won't be alive when I'm 100 damn it. Well, she could be. She's looking great. In her time, the queen is famously owned over 30 corgis, corgidogs. In 1933, her father bought home a corgid called Duky. Adorable. So cute. Matt Clon love you love animals dookie yeah come on that means that means shit it's a shit but other corkies other corkies have included Sherry whiskey

bushy and foxy you know I think she would still be able to name all of them for you probably she loves them but that perhaps the most famous corgi was Susan. I love it. She was given to her on her 18th birthday and from all which future corgi's descended to, most of them are related to Susan. That's nice. Susan. Susan, don't shoot all the carpet, Susan. Matt,do you do the voice better. So is it. So please. Get off the rug. He was. No more.

He was. No more shooting on the rug. Dracat, he's ever swearing now. I swear. I'm just gonna putty mouth out, I reckon. Man. Fuck me, Philip. The dog has done us again!

No, no, I'm not like that, Philip, please! I don't know what the amel over the shop. Alright, final fact, final fun fact. In 2012, Queen Elizabeth II's Corgis, Monty, Willow and Holly appeared during the brief James Bond sketch when Daniel Craig arrived at Buckingham Palace for the mission to take the Queen to the 2012

Olympics opening ceremony. Do you remember that video? So Daniel Craig would tend to forget the... No, it's the best thing that ever happened. Daniel Craig would tend to be James Bond. He escorts the Queen and their dogs are in the background, three of them. And then they have a video that looks like she and him parachute out of the plane together into the stadium. Right. So it's like a skydive address as the Queen, which is great.

But this is the fun fact. Monty, who had previously belonged to the Queen Mother, died in September 2012, but Monty had been named for the horse whisperer and friend of the Queen, Monty Roberts. Monty Roberts, the horse whisperer. It's all come for a circle, a horse whispering. And Olympics. And Olympics. It all comes together. So he's named after the horse whisperer,

and he was part of the Olympics. That is beautiful. And that was a really cool part of the Olympics. It was. So it was like a video that played on the screen of James Bond going into her office and she's just sitting there riding and he sort of waits there for a bit and he does like an awkward like and then she gets up and she's like alright and they walk through the corridors and they get into the helicopter and then the helicopter flies off and it flies over London and then an actual helicopter appears above the stadium and two people jump out of it wearing the outfit and then the

queen that's when the queen arrives. Like she pretends that she plays along with it. What a legend. It sounds like a, she's a real good sport. She sounds like a very normal person. Yeah, that's what we're really, I think getting out of this. After everything she's done with us,

she's just done for us. She's just so down to us. Yeah, you know, had everyone's money lived an easy life. You know, after all, she's done for us. All right, Matt, time has come for you then. I think that you are leaning towards keeping the queen. If you can choose, I'll ask Jess first. Given the vote, would you keep Queen Elizabeth II as our monarch?

Honestly, I don't really understand what would happen if we became a republic. We just have a president. Yeah, so like what? Well, as a prime minister. I don't even know what would happen if we became a republic. We just have a president. Yeah, so like what? Well as a prime minister. I don't even know if we necessarily have a president. We just have an Australian head of state, so it probably should be called the Governor-General, I think.

But it depends, I mean, there's lots of different ways it could be, but I think that's the official way that... So the wording of the change in 1999 ninety-nine was to alter the constitution to establish the commonwealth of australia as a republic with a queen and governor general being replaced by a president appointed by two thirds majority of the members of the commonwealth parliament so that was yeah that was what so john how does really smart he

he knew that the republic was by far more popular than the monarchy at the time so he chose the way he allowed the vote as Prime Minister, which is a kind of up to him, but he was there was pressure on to do it. But the only way to get it in was to have an unpopular system, which was having a president that was chosen by the parliament. So he knew that that was going to be unpopular. So the people who wanted Republics to vote at know some did. Yeah. Because they're like, we'll wait until we can do it the way we want to do it. And others just want to know. And that's what pushed the nose. Interesting. Over the line. Now the

current head of the republican movement is fits fits. Fitzsiamans, Peter Fitzsiamans,, Fitzs Simmons. And I think the official, like I think the system that they would go with, or what he favors, or they favor at the moment, would be pretty much not changing anything. It's a symbolic thing. Nothing in change apart from the head to state would now be an Australian. So basically instead of the governor general asking for the rubber stamp from the queen he wouldn't have to heat the one who gives the rubber. So it really it doesn't it's totally it's entirely symbolic. You would not

feel any change. Yeah, it would be any difference. So it's not it just means that I mean to me it is bizarre that we still have an english born royal as basically like literally our king or queen yeah and it that's the that's the main reason then they changed the flag uh... not wouldn't have to but probably probably would because the the army happy to change the flag as well what a boring fucking flag looks at the same flag is every other

country in the Commonwealth. I don't particularly like the options they give us when people try to make it. Yeah, no, that's the trouble with it. For the sake of argument, I would just say keep it as it is if it ain't broke. Don't fix it. I would like to pledge my Royal Official Agency Quayton List with the second. Yeah. What a lady. Keep going. Another 60 years I can see her at the top. Come on Lizzie. I just going to happen, you guys, it will happen one day. All right, there you go.

Two to one. Two to one Matt, I'm afraid you are out. All right, so that's Quindle is with the second. Two yeses. One, no. Matt, we'll be probably- The mom was a strong yes. Okay, and mine was a fairly weak no Oh, yes for the Republican were two nose

So you'll probably be taking out the back and have you had chopped off secretly tonight Mom is a big night Quinnell is with the seconds Korgi militia She's got a Korgi militia. You're gonna know these things. Thanks so much for listening to the show And if you are from overseas where none of this affects you at all. Thanks for putting up with that if you're a American or show and if you are from overseas where none of this affects you at all thanks for putting up with that if you're a American or you're probably American. They have a little day called Independence Day and they fucking got it down a few years ago. It was a great film yeah.

It's great that's right and they're doing a sequel so thank god for that. Thank god. It's a sequel to Independence Day. You know what? There's something for everyone out there. Thank you. God bless the Queen. I pledge my humble allegiance to be her 70.

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It is me next, buddy. Oh, all right. Hey, if you, uh, if you have any ideas of what I should do, feel free to tweet in at DoGoOnPod. Mm-hmm. I'd love to get some fresh ideas. Because at the moment, mine's gonna be about the Republican movement.

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