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Catherine Zeta-Jones says she felt like she “lost a real family member” following the death of the Queen, and that the news had made her “homesick” and “proud of my heritage”.

The Welsh actress, 52, said the monarch had been “a real inspiration” and a figure of “power and respect”.

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00:00I should miss her dearly. I felt like I lost a real family member, and I know that the Prince
00:09Charles, King Charles III now, will do an exceptional job, as will the family in supporting him through a huge
00:19transition in his life.
00:20And it's, you know, as God closes, you know, a door somewhere, he opens a window, you know, and that's
00:28what Britain is. We have a history, and this is now history, you know, moving on and the baton and
00:35being passed.
00:36But I was, I kept calling my mother and FaceTiming my family and going, do you feel how I feel?
00:42And they went, yeah. It's a very, it's the most, I don't know whether, it's because I'm British, you know,
00:49but I just felt very, like a little piece of me had gone, gone.
00:55I have to say, I mean, I'm a big royalist, you know, I really am, and I love the royal
01:00family, I love the royal family just for our country.
01:03And as a woman growing, as a girl growing up in Wales, in Britain, in the UK, I had my
01:09mom, you know, who was the strongest, most safest person to me, but I also had a queen.
01:14A woman who was a real inspiration, you know, a woman who made it okay with as a woman prime
01:20minister.
01:20When I'm in a country that's never had a woman as a prime minister, or as a woman, as a
01:26figure of leadership, of power, but also of respect.
01:32But it was, it was a very strange feeling, very homesick.
01:39I'm very proud of my heritage.
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