Catherine Zeta-Jones ‘homesick’ over Queen’s death after leaving Wales

‘I’m a big royalist and I love the royal family and what they do for our country,’ Zeta-Jones told the audience. 

‘As a girl growing up in Wales, in Britain, in the UK, I had my mum who was the strongest, safest person to be with but I also had a Queen.’ 

‘And I don’t just mean that she was a queen sitting on a throne, we’re at Disney where queens and princesses are the topic du jour, but a woman who was a real inspiration. 

‘I’m in a country that has never had a woman as a figure of leadership, of power and of respect, and so I shall miss her dearly.’ 

Zeta-Jones, 52, was born in Swansea and, after wowing British audiences on the small screen in The Darling Buds of May, got her big Hollywood break in 1998 blockbuster movie The Mask of Zorro. 

Reacting to the Queen’s death, the actress continued: ‘I kept calling my mother on FaceTime and going “do you feel how I feel?” and they said “yeah”. 

‘I don’t know whether it’s because I’m British but I just felt like a little piece of me had gone.’ 

She added: ‘There will never be a queen in my lifetime again, but it was a very strange feeling. (I felt) very homesick, very proud of my heritage.’ 

Zeta-Jones also said she believes King Charles, who has been formally proclaimed the new monarch in ceremonies across the UK this weekend, would do an ‘exceptional job’ as the ‘baton was passed’. 

The actress lives in California with husband and fellow actor Michael Douglas, and their two children Dylan, 22, and Carys, 19. 

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