Whitehall

And so this is the National Service Memorial.

Remembrance Sunday takes place at the Cenotaph, which is on Whitehall, and this year it will be Sunday, November 8th, and this is when the National Service of Remembrance takes place with a two-minute silence at 11 a.m. with wreaths laid by the king, the royal family, and every living prime minister, followed by a veterans march that will go past the Cenotaph.

The public can watch from Whitehall, arrive early, because there will be security screening.

It's a very high profile event.

And a lot of people like to witness it.

London was not digitally recreated.

They actually filmed Cillian Murphy walking around those locations, Westminster Bridge, Piccadilly Circus, Whitehall, horse guards parade Oxford Street areas around Parliament and other normally packed central London sorry central London locations as well but they couldn't simply like phone up and say London empty your streets sort of thing we're coming to film right fuck off sort of thing as well so Cillian remembered getting up at like 3.30 in the morning and then like basically shooting continuing until about around about eight o'clock and like they were trying to like shoot it in certain angles as well and like obviously at that time in the morning trying to film it'd be a freaking night no not a nightmare it'd be easier but then obviously you've still got the the you know, stress of going, are we going to get these shots in before like, you know, like everybody as well.

So, uh, Murphy described commuters and people coming home after a night, uh, night out lingering around the edges of the filming, um, as well.

So like, like, so obviously three 30 in the morning, like, I can't remember what, like, I can't like, I didn't do it fast.

To be fair, one of my favourite movie production stories involves the overturned double-decker as well.

Because I was looking into it and I said, oh, that's quite interesting, to be fair.

So the filmmakers wanted the bus to be lying in the road near Whitehall.

They reported...

La conversazione codificata, rigoroso divieto di affrontare argomenti considerati sconvenienti come le vicende politiche parlamentari più accese, il denaro liquido o le notizie scandalistiche di cronaca nera.

La pianificazione della sartoria serale, visite dedicate alle sarte private per la scelta di scampoli di taffetà, merletti di Bruxelles e velluti pregiati destinati ai sontuosi ricevimenti notturni nei teatri dell'opera e nei palazzi di Whitehall.

Sotto l'impeccabile splendore dei broccati e il rassicurante tintinnio delle porcellane, l'aristocrazia vittoriana cercava disperatamente di congelare il proprio primato di classe in un mondo che la rivoluzione industriale stava per trasformare per sempre.

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It's a terrible place to work, isn't it? It's certainly true that Downing Street is a terrible place to work at.

Moving anywhere in Whitehall would be an upgrade.

You can keep the front door and you can keep the ceremonial rooms, right? That's all totally fine.

Of course, what you should really do is something much more ambitious.

Despite the fact she was clearly dismayed and overwhelmed, in response to the ego and the demands of Thomas Wyatt, she sent word.

She wished to meet the alderman and the mayor of London today, Guildhall and then she rode out herself with a small entourage down Whitehall turning right at Charing Cross along Fleet Street into the city balancing everything rode into the Guildhall itself.

She had with her the Chancellor of England, the Lords of the Council and the ladies of her household.

And there she stood before the city's livery companies, underneath the cloth of a state.

The sun set quickly that afternoon.

Darkness came upon our city.

Over in Westminster, the Queen's security was reinforced by the pensioners, retired soldiers and military men who now became an informal body of veterans who found themselves ready to defend Whitehall.

One described the moment, Being all armed, we came up into the chamber of presence with our pole-axes in our hands, wherewith the ladies were very fearful.