Actor Matt Smith, who performed Prince Philip in The Crown, is planning to return to the UK for the Queen’s funeral so he can witness “a piece of history”.
He advised America’s Today programme: “We’ll never have a monarch that serves for 70 years again… I just want to be in London, I want to experience it. I think I want to share in the ceremony of it really.”
Smith stated his mom was planning to look at Monday’s funeral procession in particular person, however that he wasn’t certain if he would be part of her.
“I might watch it in my local pub actually, with a group of friends,” he stated.
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The Northampton-born actor performed Prince Philip in 20 episodes of Netflix’s The Crown between 2016 and 2017.
“I kind of fell in love with Philip really to be honest,” he advised Today.
Smith stated he’d heard the Queen used to look at the present “on a projector on Sunday night apparently”, however that Philip “definitely didn’t”.
He described how a good friend had as soon as sat subsequent to Philip at a dinner and plucked up braveness to ask if he watched the sequence, to which he replied: “Don’t be ridiculous!”
It seems Prince Harry additionally could not resist a quip about Smith’s royal function when he met him at a polo match.
“He rocked up to me and he went ‘Grandad’!” Smith stated.
As the nation prepares for an unprecedented nationwide second on Monday morning, the queue to see the Queen mendacity in state is now previous Tower Bridge – some 4 miles from Westminster.
The mendacity in state is open 24 hours a day till 6.30am on the day of the funeral.
Source: information.sky.com”