Andrew Marr isn’t embarrassed by being overcome with emotion while announcing the Queen’s death during his LBC radio show.
Marr was forced to interrupt his Thursday broadcast to tell his listeners that the late monarch had died peacefully at Balmoral aged 96.
His voice wavered as he delivered the news, adding: ‘I said I’d lose it, and I did.’
Reliving the historic announcement on Monday’s Good Morning Britain, Marr told presenters Susanna Reid and Ben Shephard that at that moment he was reminded of the death of his father.
Susanna began the conversation by saying: ‘And enormous sympathy to you in that moment because you are not just reporting on the loss of our monarch, but it feels like a seismic moment.’
Marr replied: ‘And for a lot of us, a personal one too. I’ve been asking myself ever since that “how embarrassed do I feel?” because after all, we’re all meant to be professional broadcasters, we hold it together, we do the thing.
‘And it was a huge moment of course, but I think what was going through my mind was the death of my father two years ago and I think a lot of people had that kind of connection.’
He added that many people have a strong personal, emotional connection to the royal family and that the Queen was the mother of the nation.
‘In the end, I decided not to feel too embarrassed,’ Marr concluded.
Elsewhere during his appearance on Good Morning Britain, Marr condemned the arrest of a woman holding an anti-monarchy sign before the Queen’s cortege.
‘We are a democratic country. We are an open disputatious country where we can say what is on our minds and I don’t believe for a moment that this is what the new king would have wanted,’ he said.
‘In fact, I would bet a lot of money that the new King is equally alarmed and upset by the fact that protestors are being arrested.’
The Queen’s coffin arrived at the royal residence in Edinburgh after a six-hour journey from Balmoral on Sunday.
The coffin remained in the Throne Room at the Palace of Holyroodhouse overnight, where staff have been able to pay their final respects.
King Charles III and the Queen Consort are to visit Westminster Hall in London today where both Houses of Parliament will express condolences to the new monarch.
Charles and Camilla will then fly to Edinburgh where they will attend a Ceremony of the Keys and the King will inspect the guard of honour.
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