The extensive and cloying mono-narrative coverage of the Queen's death has become excessive and potentially harmful to honest reporting.

“but i do think this kind of this absolute mono narrative that everybody has to be saying everything was wonderful everybody has to be just cloyingly sort of supportive and pro and i i'm not saying you know we should have had lots of sort of people covering this out the other but then it led to this ”

The Queen's ability to maintain discretion and a professional, formal demeanor in public even during formal state procedures was a key part of her success.

“I remember when I got made a privy counsellor I I knew her I knew I knew her majesty a little bit and so I was expecting when I went to get you when you become such a state you go to get these kind of stamps of office which you can give to your kids to put in candle wax and go around stamping things”