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Death of Elizabeth II: "I shook his hand, which is not done", remembers Murray Head

2022-09-08T19:30:50.978Z


The British singer, popularized by his song "Say It Ain't So Joe", had the opportunity to meet the Queen, who died on Thursday at 96


“I am convinced that she held on until she received the new Prime Minister…” Murray Head talks to us about the Queen as soon as we meet him, this Thursday, September 8, backstage at the ODP festival in Talence (Gironde), where he performed the same evening.

The disappearance of Elizabeth II will not be formalized until two hours later, but her eyes are already reddening.

“I have tears in my eyes for my country.

Now is not the time to die.

England is sinking.

And she was the bulwark.

There was, thanks to the queen, a sense of fair play, a vigilance that prevented us from sinking.

She made mistakes, of course, but she brought stability to the country.

The series The Crown tells it very well: without it, it is the very truth that is in danger.

I fear for my country.

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“She was incredibly modern”

The 76-year-old British singer and actor, who has lived in Béarn since 2005, once met the queen.

“I even shook his hand, which is not done, he smiles.

It was during the centenary of the Entente Cordiale between France and Great Britain

(in April 2004)

.

I was invited to the Élysée with a few artists, Jane Birkin, Charlotte Rampling, Kristin Scott Thomas.

It was for me, a little singer, a sacred compliment.

I was flattered to find myself in this royalty.

I was photographed shaking hands with the queen and I kept the shot at home.

I even put it in my autobiography.

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We are surprised that this committed singer, who has always fought conservatism, as in his greatest classic "Say It Ain't So Joe" in 1975, is also affected by the disappearance of the sovereign.

"But she didn't like Thatcher, either," he replies.

I remember several speeches by the queen with Mitterrand where it was clear that she was aware of everything, that she understood the future.

She was incredibly modern, the queen, Twitter, all that, she knew how to use it.

»

Charles will succeed his mother on the throne.

“But I think he will quickly give way to his son William, predicts the artist.

He is a man who understands the land, the environment, but who was not brought up emotionally, who is not close enough to the people.

And the English press can be extremely cruel…”

Source: leparis

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