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The Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, and his wife are given a tour of Westminster Abbey by Dean David Hoyle, as part of their two-day state visit to the UK. Report by Alibhaiz. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00All of them are just on the pavement ahead of us. We were invaded in 1066.
00:07We were invaded by the British. We've been there every week since.
00:11Except two of them were murdered.
00:13You can go down the hill and look.
00:15There are services here. There are services here every day.
00:18It's a working church.
00:20It's a working church.
00:23And we have a shop on the right.
00:25So this is where our choir would stand.
00:29So, because of what we're doing today, it's rather an unusual day.
00:33Normally, it's past twelve.
00:35So we have a normal place for the choir.
00:37And at four o'clock tomorrow, we have a choir school.
00:41And then, at twelve o'clock, we have a hand-to-hand conversation with the school.
00:51Every day, minimally more services.
00:54I think...
00:57This is where the head of state lives.
00:59So that's where he's going to be.
01:01Sorry, ma'am.
01:03Oh, did you?
01:04And there was a marvellous, great platform built along here.
01:11Our royal family was just there.
01:14I know you've met the Princess of Wales.
01:17So they were sitting just there.
01:19Their youngest son was taken into my house briefly.
01:22Just to give him a moment.
01:26We had judges and service chiefs over there.
01:29And then what you would have seen is the King and Queen appear quite late in the service.
01:36They sat on two seats here.
01:38But the coronation...
01:40I don't know if you can see, there's a disc right in the middle of that pavement.
01:43That's exactly where the chair always sits.
01:46Over and over again.
01:48So for more than a thousand years, this is what we're seeing?
01:52We're going up to the library later.
01:54There's a book in the library that dates to the 1380s, which tells you how to do a coronation.
01:59And we still use bits of it.
02:03We're going to go this way now.
02:06It's finished in 1269.
02:08And there were early churches here.
02:10But nearly everything you see down to the house was redeveloped.
02:19Increasingly what we have, and you're just about to see why it's a lot,
02:24Here, this is one of our most famous poets.
02:42But we have scientists, Newton and Darwin.
02:45People remember them in their name.
02:47We have architects.
02:49We're going to go back to the middle.

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