"The Queen listened politely before telling him: 'No, and what's more Mr Humphrys, if one ever were to do such a thing, it most certainly would not be with you.'
Camilla, Charles, William, Kate, Charlotte, George and Louis at Buckingham Palace in June
Humphrys traces his republicanism back to his childhood in working-class Cardiff, remembering the excitement when newly-crowned Elizabeth visited in 1952.
He says his neighbours poured onto the street to see her – apart from his father Edward, whom Humphrys remembers as a 'very proud man who had a very tough life'."
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