Nick save the king Charles III | The Guardian
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Australian rocker recalls Queen Elizabeth II being ‘the most charismatic woman I have ever met’ and says he is not ‘so damn grouchy’ to refuse the invite
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Nick Cave has denied being a monarchist or a royalist after it was revealed he is attending the coronation of King Charles III, saying he “hold[s] an inexplicable emotional attachment to the royals”.
In his newsletter, Cave described once meeting Queen Elizabeth II at an event in Buckingham Palace, saying she “seemed almost extraterrestrial and was the most charismatic woman I have ever met. Maybe it was the lighting, but she actually glowed.”
He revealed, “to my bafflement”, he had cried while watching the queen’s funeral on television last year.
In reply to the letter writer from the UK, who asked, “What would the young Nick Cave have thought of that?!”, Cave wrote “the young Nick Cave was, in all due respect to the young Nick Cave, young, and like many young people, mostly demented, so I’m a little cautious around using him as a benchmark for what I should or should not do. He was cute though, I’ll give him that.”
Cave was born and raised in Australia, but has lived in Britain for years. In 2017, he was named an Officer of the Order of Australia – an honour established in 1975 by Elizabeth II.
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