A historic documentary film
(See special feature: pages 32-35)

This is a unique picture, in depth and detail never attempted before, of a year in the life of the Queen and her family.
For the first time ever, the Royal Family agreed to let a television film team follow them with cameras and microphones not only while carrying out their duties, but in their off-duty moments as well. Richard Cawston's film has captured for the nation today, and for future generations, the events, duties and relaxations that helped to make up the seventeenth year of the Queen's reign.
The film presents scene after scene which have never before been witnessed by the public. The inner workings of Buckingham Palace, on board the Royal Yacht and the Royal Train, behind the scenes at daily events and special occasions, holidays at Balmoral and Sandringham, Christmas at Windsor-all these were recorded in picture and sound as they happened, and are now being shown for the first time.
The Queen is sixty-third in a line of sovereigns stretching back over 1,000 years to the grandfather of King Alfred the Great. In all that time there has never been so full and open a revelation of the life the members of the Royal Family lead, and the work they do.

A joint production by BBC Television and Independent Television

There will be an interval of two minutes at 8.50 p.m.