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===2000s=== In 1999, Dimbleby opened ''[[2000 Today]]'', the BBC's coverage of the millennium celebrations, from [[Greenwich]], England.<ref name="Duguid"/> He commentated on the funerals of [[Diana, Princess of Wales]] in 1997, [[Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother]] in 2002<ref name="Duguid"/> and former [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] [[Margaret Thatcher]] in 2013,<ref name="thatcher">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22151589|title=Baroness Thatcher funeral as it happened|date=April 2013|work=BBC News|access-date=12 November 2013}}</ref> as well as the state visit of [[US President]] [[George W. Bush]] to the UK in 2003. In 2002, Dimbleby hosted the [[Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II]] coverage. A profile by [[Ben Summerskill]] for ''[[The Observer]]'' in 2001 quoted an unnamed former Cabinet Minister who had observed Dimbleby's career for many decades: "I suspect he has an almost medieval view, that the Queen governs through Parliament... There are a few quarrels among the subjects – over which he presides very capably – but they have very little to do with what Britain is really about."<ref name="Summerskill"/> Dimbleby, though, has himself criticised what he sees as archaic elements of the State Opening of Parliament.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2003-11-26|first=John|last=Plunkett|title=Dimbleby sidesteps State Opening|url=http://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/nov/26/broadcasting.bbc|access-date=2021-11-23|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref> David Dimbleby was chairman of the Dimbleby Newspaper Group, former publishers of the ''[[Richmond and Twickenham Times]]'', acquired by the [[Newsquest Media Group]] in 2001 for a reported £12,000,000.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2001-04-10|title=Dimbleby sells his newspapers|url=http://www.theguardian.com/media/2001/apr/10/newsquest.pressandpublishing|access-date=2021-11-23|website=The Guardian|language=en|first=David|last=Teather}}</ref> There were reports in 2004 that Dimbleby was shortlisted for the [[Chairman of the BBC|chairmanship of the BBC]].<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1044739.ece | work=The Times | location=London | title=Headhunters look outside the box for Dyke successor | first1=Adam | last1=Sherwin | first2=Raymond | last2=Snoddy | date=13 March 2004 | access-date=1 May 2010}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> However, the position was eventually awarded to [[Michael Grade]]. Dimbleby was a contender for the chairmanship in the corporation's tumultuous period following 2001,<ref name="shortlisted"/> which went to [[Gavyn Davies]]. He has instead remained, according to Mark Duguid for the BFI's screenonline website, best known for his "gravitas, journalistic integrity and consummate professionalism" and as "a paragon of impartiality"<ref name="Duguid"/> as a narrator and moderator, of British politics. In 2005, he hosted a BBC One series, ''[[A Picture of Britain]]'', celebrating British and Irish paintings, poetry, music and landscapes. In June 2007 he wrote and presented a follow-up, the BBC series, ''[[How We Built Britain]]'', in which he explored the history of British architecture by visiting a region of Britain and its historic buildings each week. David Dimbleby also presented a new series on [[BBC One]], ''[[Seven Ages of Britain (2010 TV series)|Seven Ages of Britain]]''. In early editions of the programme, he looked at the [[Bayeux Tapestry]] and exhibits to do with [[Thomas Becket]]. On 12 November 2009, Dimbleby missed his first [[Question Time (TV programme)|''Question Time'']] in over fifteen years, having been taken to hospital as a precaution after being briefly knocked out by a [[Rear (horse)|rearing]] [[Cattle|bullock]] at his farm in [[Sussex]].<ref name=BBC8356943>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8356943.stm |title=David Dimbleby injured by bullock |work=BBC News |date=12 November 2009 |access-date=12 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091115091634/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8356943.stm |archive-date=15 November 2009 |url-status=dead |df=dmy }}</ref>
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