The King presents broadcaster Alan Titchmarsh and Olympic silver medallist Katarina Johnson-Thompson with their honours at Windsor Castle.
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00:00It feels wonderful, I'm thrilled to bits. I was an MBE for 25 years and I thought
00:05that's fine, I'm very happy being an MBE and then this arrived, I said oh goodness me
00:09never had one to put around my neck before. He was well, I said it was nice to
00:12see him back, we were all relieved and he talked about the fact that I'd gone up
00:17in the world. We talked about Dumfries House and the work he does up there, that
00:22amazing development for the King's Foundation, of which I'm an ambassador so
00:26I'm wearing the pin. He's on form, it's fatiguing, it's terribly tiring I think
00:32treatment for cancer and his resilience before he had the problem was
00:39remarkable and his resilience now post-cancer is just astonishing. I know
00:44you know from personal experience what it takes out of you, not myself but
00:48people close to me and he's just astonishing. It feels like you know the
00:52cherry on top of the cake, like this is the Olympics was and then this to be
00:56honoured for this and then all the years that I've done athletics you know I
01:00couldn't be prouder and I'm made up that my family's here to see it too.
01:03We chatted about you know just how long I've been doing it and the taller takes
01:07on the body and you know how you need a good physiotherapist so I'm glad to see him
01:11you know fit and well and back to duties.
01:16The next goals for me are the Tokyo World Championship so unfortunately I
01:21didn't do that good at the previous Olympics which was in Tokyo so I'm going
01:25to go back into the same stadium and hope to make better memories there.