[Music] King Charles is the first child of Queen Elizabeth II he's known for his love of gardens
and cares about environmental issues and he's also spoken about climate change and the importance of
protecting the planet as Prince of Wales he worked with young people through the Prince's Trust
the King is married to Camilla Queen Consort who works for many charities
to promote her love of books the arts and she loves dogs like we do too
Saturday the 6th of May 2023 is the Coronation at Westminster Abbey in London
millions of people will watch this historic event and today
their Majesties are meeting Blue Peter ahead of the big day
your Majesties welcome to Blue Peter the longest running children's programme in the world and just
like yourselves we love to encourage and inspire young people to get active get outside try new
adventures and of course care for the environment absolutely and we wanted to introduce to you three
of our BP fans have been helping to protect the planet and helping out in their communities
first up we have Sasha from Liverpool I try to protect the planet by litter picking my local park
as King do you want to inspire more people to care for the environment it's I've been trying to do it
for a long time and how many badges have you got eight eight that's pretty showy
isn't it having eight badges that's a lot of bling I've never seen so many
and we've got Asha here from Birmingham I love learning about the British Monarchy and I'm
looking forward to the coronation weekend what are you most looking forward to about the celebrations
that are happening you know well that's a very difficult question I hope it gives enormous
pleasure to other people that's the key to it really I hear you've done a lot for St John's
ambulance yes do you do it every week yes on a Tuesday evening on a Tuesday evening goodness
are you you doing first aid as well yes at different events very important so you know what
to do if I fall over it's gonna be on the first aid duty thank goodness Hilda's from near Swansea
and she wants to tell you about the silver badge about her love of reading me and my mum go down
to the beach and we hide bags of books hot drink sachets and messages do you think it's important
to enjoy reading too reading is so important it teaches you so many things you can go and escape
in all different places and go on lots and lots of adventures what's your favourite book yes exactly
um I like the Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo oh that's lovely well I'm so glad it must be
lovely for somebody to find a book exactly sharing the love and hot drink sachets would be a surprise
Sasha has one extra question when you were a child did you watch Blue Peter yes I
did can you believe it it's amazing how long it's gone on for isn't it absolutely 65 years
this year but I remember collecting silver paper and things do you remember there was
a great thing you sent in your silver paper from the chocolate wrappers and all these other things
so that they could reuse it we're very big on the reduce reuse recycling here and that's why we get
our green badges as well for the coronation we have had so much post come in and we wanted to
show you some of that if that's okay oh yes we've had lots and lots of letters and artwork sent
in to us from children all over the country and we couldn't wait to share it with their Majesties
oh this one's lovely very multicoloured I like the rainbow one the rainbow one that's really
good this one is by
Rayanch and as you can see even in the Union Jack Flag they've got God Save the King and
it's really nice and colourful isn't it you look rather like Churchill there very good
effort with the watercolours yeah so detailed so colourful they're really really talented very
good that's good yeah very good well of course we want to thank you and to wish you the very
best of luck for the coronation and of course to thank you particularly for all your amazing work
empowering the young people and with your help protecting the environment we wanted to award you
the highest accolades that we have here on Blue Peter the gold Blue Peter badges so these are for
you how wonderful thank you very much where abouts would you like it we're in she's done it ooh
there we go it sparkles it is very shiny well I am very touched thank
you for having us lovely meeting you sir was lovely meeting you lovely meeting you ma'am