'The Queen was the nation's grandmother - she was unique,' says royal expert
ok.co.ukA royal expert has told how The Queen was the “nation’s grandmother”. Speaking exclusively to OK! following The Queen's passing at the age of 96 and 70 years on the throne, Duncan Larcombe told us how he thinks the monarch will be remembered.
He says: “Families across Britain are together, sharing stories of the Queen. I was talking to my parents, and my dad told me he remembers his headmaster running down the corridor waving his arms shouting, ‘The King is dead, long live the Queen.’ “And my mum went to watch the Coronation from the Mall.
My 10-year-old daughter met her when she came to their school just before lockdown, and that’s now one of her precious memories of this remarkable woman. “She was the Queen, but she was also the nation’s grandmother.To my grandmother, she was the nation’s sister, someone who had gone through the Second World War like them. "She was unique, not only because of the longevity of her life, but also because of the consistency of her presence and popularity.” Duncan, the author of Prince Harry: The Inside Story, continues of The Queen’s state funeral, which took place om Monday 19 September: “As a nation, few of us will have ever experienced anything like this before. “Not since the death of Winston Churchill will we have seen a state funeral quite like this one.
We’re in completely new territory – you have to be of a certain age to remember anyone singing God Save The King before.” He added: “We feel familiarity with someone like the Queen.
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