Boris Johnson said: 'The last audience I had with her – one of the reasons why it was so shocking to hear about her death was because, in that audience, she had been absolutely on it just two days before her death.'
As part of a series of interviews with former Prime Ministers, Boris Johnson said: “The last audience I had with her – one of the reasons why it was so shocking to hear about her death was because, in that audience, she had been absolutely on it just two days before her death.
“And she was actively focused on geopolitics, on UK politics, quoting statesmen from the 50s – it was quite extraordinary.” Asked whether the Queen “seem[ed] well”, he added: “She seemed very bright, very focused – look, I’m – she was clearly not well. “And that was the thing that I found so moving when I – we – all heard about her death two days later. I just thought how incredible that her sense of duty had kept her going in the way that it had.”
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