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Even the Queen could not watch - 10 years since Olympic hockey gold
Team GB players celebrate victory over the Netherlands in the Rio 2016 Olympic hockey final
The date is 19 August 2016, and Great Britain's women hockey players are on the cusp of history. Penalties are under way against the Netherlands in the Olympic final in Rio de Janeiro.
Back home in Britain, nine million people are watching on the BBC. Many through their hands, families are glued to the screen.
It was the same for the family gathered at Balmoral.
"I was sitting at dinner thinking 'what's going on?' Somebody who was helping at the table kept whispering the score to me," says Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh.
"Eventually Her Majesty said, 'oh for goodness sake, just go'. So I ran through to the library and I was watching it."
Speaking on a special BBC Radio 5 Live programme to commemorate the anniversary of the gold medal, the Duchess, a patron of England Hockey, continues: "It was getting to the point when I was leaping up and screaming.
"The drawing room is right next door and I suddenly was conscious of this presence.
"Her Majesty had come through and she was standing in the doorway.
"She was watching the penalties - she couldn't cope with the pressure, she had to take herself away again. She couldn't cope with it."