To make sure everybody has the best experience,
please consider others and pack up your tents
to make space along the processional route.
No sleep, but good night.
We didn't think it would be this busy to be fair,
it's crazy isn't, already?
Good old survival bag.
Perfect for the kit.
Come all the way from Yorkshire just to see our king.
We was here for the jubilee.
Yeah.
Similar, exactly, probably the same position.
Can't see a thing, having a great time.
Yeah.
None of us knew one another.
We're all friends now, we're all looking out for each other.
If you need to go out to go to the toilet, get a coffee,
everyone looks after your stuff.
Everything that's been going on with Covid and the poverty and everything,
it's a time for everyone to just get together and celebrate,
you know, in one way or another.
We can't afford to eat, we can't afford to heat our homes,
but we're going to have a good time.
We're gonna have a good day today.
That's what we're here for.
We've been here for two days,
you know, you just want things to get started.
Not my king!
What you are doing is preventing peaceful protests.
Fascist pigs.
He's yanked the banner out my fucking hand, nearly pulled me over.
Each person in this country pays around £4,
if you include babies and toddlers
and if you don't, then we pay rather more.
Now organisers were hoping that this would be a much larger crowd,
between 1,000 and 2,000 people who want to abolish the monarchy.
Republic!
Now!
Republic!
Now!
Police arrested six of the key organisers earlier today
and seized a truck carrying many of their placards.
Boo!
He's just a normal lad!
And it was my observation that it got caught up
in the whole melee bodies getting pulled out.
I don't think was –
... God save the king!
Not my king!
Yes your king!
He is your king,
whether you like it, he is your king.
They should be protesting on Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday,
when parliament's on or something, you know?
Let everyone just see this day.
Why're you standing in front of our banner?
Freedom of speech.
We're not obstructing the banner.
You are completely obstructing the banner.
Your sold this narrative, but it's not the only narrative out there.
It's perfectly possible to have a functioning democracy
without a monarchy at the top of it
and that's important that young people get that message.
I wore medals so that they could speak.
Free speech in a country,
that's that's what we fought for and that's what we give them.
The fact that they abuse, that's up to them.
Doesn't bother me.
It's traditional, it's English, like, it's as English as you can get
is the royal family.
Yeah.
We respect all of them for doing what they want to do.
Yeah.
Just like we're doing what we want to do.
It's just an opinion at the end of the day.
They shouldn't be here.
I'm going home, yes.
I didn't come up here to listen to that.
My uniform I'm in, I was in the RAF.
There's lots of quite legitimate reasons
why people feel that they don't want to engage
necessarily with the coronation and I totally understand that.
The nation has gone through so much in the last few years.
You know, if it's something that brings people together
and you get some enjoyment from it and you can celebrate, why not?
Yeah, we saw him, we saw the king.
A typical spring day in Great Britain, slightly damp.
We just want everybody to put their umbrellas down so we can see.
What about a little whoo?
Whoo!
I suffer from anxiety and depression really bad
and coming out to this was really hard for me,
because I don't leave my house.
I never leave my house.
Something of this magnitude that resets you again,
it's like a rebirth isn't it?
You feel energised, you feel energetic,
this will last for weeks.
I think we do everything we can to make sure everything's good, you know?
So moments like this, I think it's really important for us all.
The crown's on, pledged allegiance,
we have.
We just want to sing the national anthem now though.
Send him victorious,
happy and glorious,
long to reign over us,
God save the king.