Elisabetta, the double leaves after 34 years, ‘it was a privilege’

He will no longer play the role of Elizabeth II, the double of the queen who disappeared on Thursday at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. The woman, Mary Reynolds, 89, and who since 1988 has played the role of the queen on television and in the cinema, has decided not to continue with this work, “out of respect ‘towards the deceased sovereign. And to a Russian broadcaster that asked her to do so she replied that “the only way I could dress to imitate the queen would be with a black dress”. In return she will keep her ‘outfits’ in memory of a woman who felt like “family “. Mary Reynolds lives in Epping, Essex and her resemblance to Elizabeth was pointed out to her as early as the age of 17. She appeared on television and in film, also alongside Roger Moore, in 1990, in Bullseye. , and for an episode of the series for the 25th anniversary of Doctor Who in 1988. Reynolds explained that he experienced the resemblance to the queen as a privilege, an ‘incredible’ person, who followed closely, even without ever meeting her, in all the important stages of his reign, and to feel now “very much , very sad”. “It’s a sea change, it’s going to be very strange now.” “I’ve spent all these years doing this job, which has helped me earn some money, but at the same time it was a pleasure to see people looking at you and say, ‘She’s the queen.’ Wherever I went in the world, she was the queen – not Queen Elizabeth, not the Queen of England, she was the queen. There will never be anyone like her. “