It's A Royal Knockout (Part 2)
4/18/202642 min
Episode 2:
Coming up in this episode - we meet the celebrities taking part in the show, and discover the reasons why her majesty The Queen and Charles and Diana quite wisely give the event a wide berth!
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First 90 secondsJosh Widdicombe· Host0:00
[trumpet music] Welcome back to part two of It's a Royal Knockout. Coming up in this episode, we meet the celebrities taking part in the show, and discover the reasons why Her Majesty the Queen and Charles and Diana quite wisely gave the event a wide berth.
Matthew Crosby· Host0:20
[trumpet music] So we're at a point where the royal family's at a real high. They couldn't be more popular. It's a Knockout is one of the biggest shows on British television.
Josh Widdicombe· Host0:33
It's a match made in heaven.
Matthew Crosby· Host0:35
It's a match made in heaven, which is a, a different show, It's a Match Made in Heaven.
Josh Widdicombe· Host0:39
[laughs] Yeah, of course, yeah.
Matthew Crosby· Host0:40
A different line from the Peter Gabriel song. [laughs] Um, so I didn't know this, that the Queen was shot at in 1981.
Josh Widdicombe· Host0:47
Oh, I didn't know that either.
Matthew Crosby· Host0:49
Yeah, so in 1981, during Trooping the Colour... You'd think this would be a bigger thing, to the point where I'm now questioning what I'm saying.
Speaker 2· Soundbite0:56
[static noise] It happened just before 11:00, as the Queen moved towards Horse Guards Parade for the start of Trooping the Colour. [gunshots] [crowd screaming] Six shots were fired. The Queen's horse, Burmese, was startled, but the Queen controlled him. A guardsman grappled with a man, helped by onlookers, as police rushed in from all directions to make an arrest.
Matthew Crosby· Host1:19
Six shots were fired at the Queen, blanks. A 17-year-old had planned an assassination but couldn't get a real gun.
Josh Widdicombe· Host1:27
But still went through with it.
Matthew Crosby· Host1:28
He was charged under the Treason