'Gutted' Mike Myers didn't leave home for days after Queen's passing
19.09.2022 - 11:51
/ msn.com
Mike Myers is "still gutted" over the death of Queen Elizabeth. The 59-year-old Canadian actor had not left home since the British monarch's passing aged 96 on September 8, until Sunday (18. 09.
22), when he attended the premiere of his new movie 'Amsterdam' in New York City, because he's been left devasted by the huge loss. He said: “I still am gutted, to be honest. “I haven’t been out, this is the first time I’ve been out.
“She was a permanent part of my life. She was on our money, every airport, every hockey rink. " The 'Wayne's World' star explained why the queen meant so much to him and his parents.
He added to Page Six: “My parents were WWII vets and it meant so much to my parents that she served [as a mechanic] during the war. “My dad was in the royal engineers and my mum was in the Royal Air Force and that meant the family stayed [in London during the German air raids], that said everything. ” At the age of 18 in 1944, a year before WWII ended, the then-Princess Elizabeth joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) and trained as a truck driver and mechanic.
The queen's state funeral will take place at 11am today (19. 09. 22) with a committal service taking place at St George's Chapel, Windsor at 4pm and she will then be buried with the Duke of Edinburgh - who passed away in April 2021 aged 99 - in a private ceremony at 7.
30pm. The coffin will be taken to Westminster Abbey on the gun carriage previously used at the funerals of Queen Victoria, Edward VII, George V, George VI, Winston Churchill and Earl Mountbatten. The King and senior members of the royal family will walk behind the coffin on its short journey to Westminster Abbey, where world leaders, emergency service workers, representatives of the
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