Queen opens up on tearful turning point that sparked domestic abuse campaigningHer Majesty The Queen: Behind Closed Doors, ITV
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00:00Remember seeing you sitting there and I thought well goodness as somebody of my generation
00:05I tried to put myself in your shoes thought to myself. What if it had been my daughter?
00:11I don't think I would have been able to sit and be as dignified and as wonderful. You were that day
00:18And then when petty got up and spoke yes, you would have heard a pin drop
00:23I'm so nervous because it was the first time I'd ever really spoken in public about Joe
00:30You know, even now as I'm talking about it, my heart is beating the emotion of that day was immense
00:41My reaction I'm afraid was to cry I looked around there's a lot of police and a lot of quite
00:48hard-nosed journalists sitting around
00:51There wasn't a dry eye in the place
00:57Listening to Hetty and meeting you afterwards
01:00We were all so shocked by what we had heard
01:03It was certainly my reaction