Become a true “royal pet” after the sketch with the queen on the occasion of her jubilee, the Paddington bear is now associated with the queen, almost as much as the corgis.
The day after his disappearance, the crowd had deposited in London parks and in front of Buckingham hundreds of soft toys bearing the image of the teddy bear, a hero of British children’s literature since the 1950s. Even Londoners had had to be banned deposit orange marmalade. sandwiches, Paddington’s sweet.
Camilla in the middle of the stuffed animals
The soft toys “deposited to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth in front of the royal residences in London and Windsor will be donated to works dedicated to the children of (the association) Bernard”, the palace said on Saturday in a press release illustrated with a photo. of Camilla enthroned in the midst of a thousand stuffed animals.
The Queen was the patron of this association until 2016, when Camilla, then Duchess of Cornwall and now Queen Consort, succeeded her.
“The puppies have been cleaned to be in tip-top shape before arriving at their new home,” the palace said.
The sketch of the Queen having tea with Paddington Bear remains a highlight of her platinum jubilee last June. And testimony to the humor and self-mockery of the sovereign, that she had not hesitated to play the game and take one of the famous jam sandwiches out of her bag.
“Cut From The Same Mold”
The image has so much more marked the spirits that it is one of the last appearances of the queen. The sovereign, already greatly weakened by his age, had shown little during the celebrations of this jubilee with great pomp.
For James Lamont, co-writer of the Paddington films, behind the sketch, this collaboration was obvious, as the bear and the queen are “cut from the same mold”.
“We knew that Paddington and the Queen had, and still have, similar values: the idea that you just have to be kind and polite for the world to turn out well,” he told BBC Radio 5 Live last September.
Not forgetting the undeniable comic aspect of seeing the clumsy bear capable of flooding and overturning a house, sipping tea on Buckingham china.
On September 8, when the news of the Queen’s death broke, the character’s official account tweeted this sentence:
“Gracias senora, por todo” (“Thank you, ma’am, for everything”).
Source: BFM TV
