As it Happened Hong Kong's Handover June 30th 1997 Ray Rudowski's Historical Archive Part 12

As a journalist first for ATV, then TVB for 5 years I covered events leading up to the handover and beyond between 1995-2000. On June 30th 1997 the date of Hong Kong's historic handover from British Colony to Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China I recorded the daylong coverage. Here for historians and researchers as well as friends and colleagues is how it looked and felt on that day. In this segment the Handover Ceremony continues 0:32 Prince Charles begins his remarks. Later it was revealed in a Daily Mail expose that he had privately referred to the Chinese leadership at the ceremony as "appalling old waxworks". He sued the Mail: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2005/... You can read excerpts from his diary and impressions of that day here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/...