10-09-2022, 02:04 AM
(09-09-2022, 08:24 PM)Frances Wrote: Before Huw read the announcement on BBC One and NC, the picture was already showing the palace flag lowering to half-mast…
Quote:Of course that we are expecting the news from Balmoral that she’s having a treatment or that… indeed… they’re unable to help Her Majesty anymore.
I didn't catch this line the first time around when it was live; I had had (a stream of) BBC One on due to the earlier coverage, and my eye was caught by the scene of the half-mast flag, at which point I turned the sound on -- just after Huw said this but just before the big moment. I heard this in full context later in one of the many YouTube reuploads of the moment posted earlier in this thread.
The context and the juxtaposition of that sentence coming just before the big announcement added such an extra weight and heft to the moment, at least in hindsight.
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