Dame Maureen Lipman, a Coronation Street star, acting legend and writer, has spoken about how she reacted to the news of Queen Elizabeth II’s death on September 8.
Before and after the service, the BBC welcomed a whole host of special guests including Maureen Lipman, where she discussed what the Queen’s reign meant to her and revealed she experienced a ‘premonition’ before the death was announced at 6:30pm.
Speaking to presenter Kirsty Young at the time, the Evelyn Plummer actress said: ‘I had a premonition, Kirsty, I actually texted a friend in Corrie and said “I think the Queen is going to die”, I just had one of those strange experiences and then I thought the show [her one-woman show in Manchester] would be cancelled, I didn’t think anyone would play that night, but the directors came through and said we were all to carry on.
, silence fell among thousands of mourners as the Queen’s coffin turned into the Long Walk on her last journey to Windsor Castle.Members of the armed forces are accompanying the royal hearse as it travels in procession to St George’s Chapel.
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