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Queen Elizabeth has always been look up to as one of the most well-mannered and respected personalities of the nation. In the recent interview with The Sunday Times, the late monarch’s most trusted aide, Samatha Cohen, remebered some of her favorite moments of the Queen which included her love for driving cars around the Balmoral Castle.
Cohen worked as a personal assistant to her royal highness for almost 18 years, until the former’s death at the age of 96 in September 2022.
Cohen described the queen as a “shy” but a “gutsy” person. Further in the conversation with the news portal, the royal source revealed that Elizabeth used to love spending time at the Balmoral Castle, and often invited other family members to join her in the summers.
Elaborating on the summers of the royals, Cohen shared, “It was important to her. She loved hosting everybody for summer, allocating the rooms and checking them herself.”
As for Cohen, the Australian native, previously worked for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, and in 2018, she transitioned to become the Queen’s private secretary.
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Recalling her moments with the late royal, the aide revealed, “She would drive her cars fast around Balmoral. She was gutsy.” Apart from cars, the former monarch also loved riding horses.
Cohen shared that her kids often used to bump into the queen as she rode the horse. The Australian aise recalled, “Some mornings I’d be getting the cereal for breakfast, and the kids would go, ‘Mum! The Queen just rode past on her horse.’ Other times they’d bump into her on their bicycles.” She further added, “The Queen loved families having a nice time and hearing what everyone was doing.”
Samantha shared that the Queen was extremely welcoming of her and her kids, as she herself would select the Christmas presents for the members of family, including Cohen, and give them handwritten cards on the occasion of special holidays.
Despite sharing some of the light moments with the late Queen Elizabeth, Samantha Cohen claimed her relationship with the former to be very respectful. The Queen passed away in September 2022, and the throne was succeeded by her son, King Charles.
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Al Pacino recalls his experience working on one of the most popular films of his career, The Godfather. The veteran actor shared feeling exhausted from struggling on the sets of Francis Ford Coppola’s movie during the initial days.
During his appearance on the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast, the actor claimed to have hurt himself on the sets, and instead of feeling terrible about it, Al Pacino was relieved, as he believed it to be a universe’s sign for him to excuse himself from the movie.
Moreover, the actor also shared with O’Brian that during his first few days on the sets of the film, he faced pressure from the director and the production over not living up to the expectations, and hence, getting hurt and leaving the movie seemed like an option for Pacino.
Explaining one of the scenes to the podcast host, the Hollywood star recalled, “Well, you have to understand one thing, because after I shoot these two guys—who I really loved, by the way—I shoot them and I’m running out and I sort of drop the gun and I go into the street and jump in a moving car.”
He further joked that because “they didn’t have a stuntman, maybe they assumed that I would jump and get hurt, and I’d be outta the film.”
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Recalling his injury, Pacino revealed that he unfortunately hurt his ankle by missing the car he had to jump on and instead fell on the ground. However, the actor’s first reaction was to look up in the sky and thank god for getting him into the situation. “I said, ‘Thank you, God.’ This was my thought. I actually said, ‘Thank you, God. You’re gonna get me out of this film.’ That’s how much I wanted to leave it. I said, ‘This is from heaven.'”
Much to the actor’s disappointment, after the accident, the people got around him, and with some minimal treatment, Pacino’s foot was fine in a day, and he continued with the shooting.
While the Oscar-winning actor had a tough time shooting the film, the fruits were definitely sweeter, as The Godfather is believed to be one of the greatest films in Hollywood’s history.
The movie went on to bag 10 nominations at the Academy Awards and won 3 out of them. Al Pacino, too, received a nomination for the cult classic.
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