Journalist shares the 2nd she bought goosebumps ultimately of Queen’s funeral

JOINED NOW BY CNN ROYAL COMMENTATOR EMILY NASH WHO JUST ATTENDED THE QUEEN'S STATE FUNERAL ALONG WITH RICHARD AND CHRISTIANE WITH ME. EMILY, WE WATCHED, WE COULD HEAR. YOU WERE INSIDE THOSE DOORS. WHAT DID YOU SEE?.

>> IT WAS QUITE AN EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIENCE FOR ME. IN 20 YEARS AS A JOURNALIST I DON'T THINK I'VE EVER FELT ANYTHING LIKE THAT. WORLD LEADERS, FOREIGN ROYALS AND DIGNITARIES FROM THIS COUNTRY AND ACROSS THE GLOBE GATHERED AND ALSO WITH ORDINARY.

PEOPLE WHO ARE PRESENT BECAUSE THEY'VE BEEN HONORED BY THE QUEEN OVER THE LAST YEAR OF HER LIFE, AND I THINK WHAT WAS AMAZING ABOUT IT IS THAT EVERYONE WAS UNIFIED AND CAME TOGETHER AND FELL SILENT FOR HER. THERE WAS ABSOLUTE SILENCE WHEN.

THE LAST POST WAS SOUNDED BOTH INSIDE AND OUT AND THAT'S REALLY EXTRAORDINARY IN A CONGREGATION OF 2,000 PEOPLE. JUST EVERY MOMENT OF IT WAS EXCEPTIONALLY SPECIAL. >> WHAT WAS IT LIKE? I KNOW IT'S GOT TO BE HARD TO DESCRIBE, BUT TO BE IN.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY WITH MORE THAN 2,000 PEOPLE AND THEN TO HAVE UTTER SILENCE DESCEND? >> IT WAS, YOU KNOW, SPINE-TINGLING IS THE WORD I WOULD USE AND THE MOMENT THE COFFIN WAS BROUGHT IN, WE HAD THIS EXTRAORDINARY MUSIC AND THE SENTENCES FROM THE CHOIR SOARING.

THROUGH THE ABBEY, AND I JUST FELT COMPLETE GOOSEBUMPS, YOU KNOW? SEEING THE COFFIN BROUGHT TO THE FRONT ON THE CATAFALQUE ON THE PLACE WHERE THE QUEEN WAS CROWNED AND WHERE SHE WAS MARRIED JUST WAS — IT WILL TAKE ME A LITTLE WHILE TO PROCESS MY.

THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS ALL, BUT IT WAS A HUGE PRIVILEGE TO HAVE BEEN PRESENT. >> YOU KNOW, CHRISTIANE, RICHARD AND I WERE TALKING ABOUT THE ARCHBISHOP'S COMMENTS, ARCHBISHOP WELBY ABOUT THE QUEEN THAT HE CAPTURED, HE DESCRIBED HER AS JOYFUL AND PRESENT FOR SO.

MANY, AND IT SEEMS THAT THAT'S WHAT YOU FELT. OBVIOUSLY, WAS THERE THE DIGNITARIES AND THE PRINCES AND PRINCESSES FROM SO MANY COUNTRIES IN THAT ABBEY AND ALSO THE REGULAR PEOPLE WHOM SHE HAD HONORED. >> AND I WAS THINKING ABOUT.

THIS, AS WELL. THE COFFIN THERE WITH THE ROYAL STANDARD WITH THE SEPTRE AND THE ORB, AND IT WAS VERY MUCH LIKE THE QUEEN DURING HER LIFETIME AND PEOPLE JUST HAD TO CATCH A GLIMPSE OF HER AND IT TOUCHED THEM AND SOMETHING THEY'LL REMEMBER FOR THE REST OF THEIR.

LIVES AND THE CROWDS OF PEOPLE OUTLINING THE HIGHWAY TO SEE JUST A QUEEN GOING PAST. SHE MEANT SO MUCH TO SO MANY PEOPLE AND THE FACT THAT YOU HAVE THE WHOLE WORLD GATHER THERE TO PAY THEIR RESPECTS SUMS IT ALL UP. >> WE WERE SAYING IN THE UK IN A.

NORMAL YEAR THERE WERE TWO OR THREE STATE VISITS AND THERE WERE HUNDREDS OF STATE VISITS IN JUST DAYS ALL GATHERED TOGETHER AND AS YOU WATCH THAT PROCESSION IN THE ABBEY. WHAT WAS THE EMOTION LIKE WHEN YOU SAW KING CHARLES ALL OF THE WAY DOWN TO PRINCE GEORGE, THE.

9-YEAR-OLD SON OF KATE AND 9-YEAR-OLD SON OF KATE AND WILLIAM. DID YOU SEE THE EMOTIONS ON THEIR FACES? >> I THINK THEIR COMPOSURE WAS REMARKABLE. I THINK THE CHILDREN PARTICULARLY ARE EXTREMELY WELL.

BEHAVED. I THOUGHT THAT IT WAS A VERY DIFFICULT MOMENT FOR THEM PARTICULARLY AS THEY WERE WALKING IN PROCESSION BEHIND THE COFFIN. IT MUST HAVE TAKEN GREAT COURAGE TO DO THAT. WE'VE SEEN THEM ON DISPLAY OVER.

THE COURSE OF THE LAST TEN DAYS, AND THEY HAVE MANAGED TO CONTAIN THEIR EMOTIONS EXCEPTIONALLY WELL, BUT NEVERTHELESS, IT APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN VERY DIFFICULT. I THOUGHT THE KING — AT “GOD SAVE THE KING” IN THE ABBEY AND IT WAS A HUGE MOMENT FOR HIM.

>> HOW WAS HIS FACE? COULD YOU SEE HIS INTERNAL, EMOTIONS AS THEY PLAYED THAT? >> HE LOOKED VERY SOLEMN. MY GOODNESS, HE HAS SAT IN THAT PLACE SO MANY YEARS AND THAT SAVED “GOD SAVE THE QUEEN” AND THAT WAS A HUGE MOMENT IN HIS LIFE.

>> IT'S A MOMENT, RICHARD, WHEN HE REALIZED — THERE'S THE EXHAUSTION AND THE PROCESS AND THEY'VE KNOWN THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN AND THERE ARE STILL MOMENTS AS A HUMAN BEING. >> AND THAT IS WHAT MANY OF US ARE STILL COMING TO TERMS WITH AS BRITISH CITIZENS THAT THAT.

MOMENT WE KNEW IT COULDN'T LAST FOREVER, BUT NOW OH, IT'S HAPPENED AND TO YOUR POINT ABOUT THE KING. HE SUMMED IT UP, THE WEIGHT OF HISTORY. IT'S WORTH REMEMBERING, IT'S OBVIOUS, I KNOW, BUT IT'S WORTH REMEMBERING THAT THESE PEOPLE,.

15, 20 DEEP WATCHING THIS PROCESSION. THEY'RE THERE VOLUNTARILY. THEY'RE THERE BECAUSE THEY MADE AN INDIVIDUAL DECISION. SOME COUNTRIES WHERE YOU BUS THEM IN, WAS THERE NO NEED TO HERE. BY THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS.

PEOPLE ARE ON THE BY THEIR CHOICE. >> RICHARD, YOU SAID SOMETHING A FEW MOMENTS AGO AND WE WERE AREN'T ON AIR AND YOU SAID THAT HAD YOU NOT BEEN WORKING YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN THERE. >> IT'S NOT AN IF OR POSSIBILITY AND IT'S A WHEN.

IF I'D NOT BEEN WORKING THIS WEEK, I WOULD HAVE SLEPT ON THE STREETS AS I DID FOR THE WEDDING OF CHARLES AND DIANA AND DIANA'S FUNERAL AS I'VE BEEN WORKING THE ROYAL EVENTS AND NO QUESTION ABOUT IT. FOR ME IT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE ONLY PLACE TO BE.

>> THE ONLY PLACE TO BE, THE BELOVED FIGURE. AS YOU THINK BACK ON YOUR MEMORIES, YOU'VE MET THE QUEEN. >> THIS IS PART OF HISTORY AND THAT'S WHY PEOPLE HAVE COME TOGETHER IN THIS MOMENT OF COMMUNITY, IN UNITY AND FOR A FEW DAYS TO RISE ABOVE THE FRAY.

AND TO HAVE THIS AMAZING OUTPOURING. THEY'RE TRAVELING WEST OF LONDON NOW ON A ROAD THAT WOULD NORMALLY TAKE TO THE AIRPORT AND GO TO WINDSOR TO SITUATE WHERE THE MOTORCADE IS. ONE THING WE LEARNED, ERIN, THE PIPER AT THE END OF THE FUNERAL.

IN THE ABBEY WAS THE SAME PIPER WHO WOKE HER UP EVERY MORNING AT 7:15 PLAYING THE PIPES UNDER HER WINDOW FOR 15 MINUTES AND THAT'S THE REMARKABLE THING AND AS KATE WILLIAMS ALLUDED TO, THIS QUEEN ONCED TO HER PEOPLE AND HER TROOPS I AM NOT THE KIND OF MONARCH WHO CAN DIRECT YOU INTO.

WAR OR PASS LEGISLATION, BUT WHAT I CAN GIVE YOU IS MY LOVE AND MY SERVICE, AND YOU KNOW, SHE'S GOING TO BE BURIED IN ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL WHERE WE'VE JUST HEARD HENRY VIII IS MARRIED AND HIS DAUGHTER WAS THE ELIZ ELIZABETHAN, SENDING HER TROOPS IN BATTLE, I HAVE THE BODY OF A.

WEAK AND FEEBLE WOMAN AND I HAVE THE HEART OF OF A KING AND THE KING OF ENGLAND, AT THAT AND IT'S REMARKABLE THAT THIS SECOND ELIZABETH WAS ABLE IN SOME WAY TO ALSO HAVE THAT POWER JUST BY THE MAJESTY AND THE UNITY THAT SHE BROUGHT EVEN THOUGH IT'S NOT GOVERNING POWER.

>> AND CHRISTIANE, YOU ALSO, I MENTIONED BRIEFLY, BUT TELL US ABOUT MEETING THE QUEEN. >> WELL, LOOK, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, I WAS VERY, VERY PROUD TO HAVE BEEN HONORED BY THE QUEEN. THE GOVERNMENT DRAWS UP A LIST FOR WHO ARE GOING TO GET WHAT'S CALLED QUEEN'S HONORS, AND I GOT.

MINE FOR SERVICES TO JOURNALISM, AND IT REMAINS, YOU KNOW, A SOURCE OF GREAT PRIDE. AND SHE WAS WONDERFUL, AND I THANKED HER AT THE TIME FOR THAT, BUT ALSO FOR OPENING THE CNN OFFICE HERE IN LONDON. SO HERE'S THE THING, JUST TO SAY THAT JUST ABOUT EVERYBODY AS.

EMILY HAS SAID AND OTHERS HAVE SAID, HAVE A MOMENT WHETHER IT'S US, WHETHER IT'S THE ROYAL FAMILY AND DIGNITARIES, ALL OF THE PEOPLE WHO MET HER ON HER WALK ABOUT ON HER OPENINGS OF ROADS — >> WAIT, SHE WAS –? SCHOOLS.

>> SHE WAS TOUCHABLE TO THE AVERAGE PERSON. >> AND PEOPLE FEEL THAT THEY KNEW HER AND THEY KIND OF DID BECAUSE IT WAS 70 YEARS ESPECIALLY THE CHRISTMAS BROADCAST. THAT WAS A TANGIBLE THING. >> EVEN IN THE U.S. WE SAW THAT.

EVERY YEAR. >> ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU TALKED ABOUT WAS THE ABILITY OF HER TO BE ORDINARY WITH YOU, AND WHEN I MET HER, WHEN SHE OPENED THE CNN OFFICE IN LONDON, WE WERE TERRIBLY WORRIED. WOULD SHE TAKE THE STAIRS OR THE RAMP?.

>> THERE SHE IS. >> ABSOLUTELY. WHAT SHE'S TALKING ABOUT THERE, SHE'S ASKING ME WHAT ABOUT MY EARPIECE? >> REALLY? ? YES. SHE WAS FASCINATED THAT WE WERE.

ABLE TO TALK AND LISTEN AT THE SAME TIME, AND SHE WAS QUITE — SHE HAD THAT — I'VE HEARD IT A MILLION TIMES. SHE HAD THAT ABILITY TO MAKE YOU FEEL YOU WERE JUST THE PERSON SHE WAS HOPING TO MEET. >> WELL, THAT'S A GIFT. SO FEW HUMAN BEINGS HAVE.

>> THE OTHER TIME I SAW HER, I SAW HER HAND AND I WAS COVERING MIKHAIL GORBACHEV'S VISIT TO THE CASTLE AND I WAS A YOUNG REPORTER AND I STAYED LATER THAN I SHOULD HAVE DONE BECAUSE IN THE LIVE REPORT AND I WAS DOWNSTAIRS AND THEN I SUDDENLY REALIZED IN FRONT OF ME THERE.

WAS A FORTMAN, A BUTLER HOLDING A GLASS AND OUT CAME A HAND AND YOU COULD HEAR THE QUEEN SAY “THANK YOU” AND I BACKED OFF BEFORE I GOT ARRESTED.

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