When HM Queen Elizabeth apparently leapt out of a helicopter and unfolding a Union Jack flag to mark the start of the London Olympics in 2012, she introduced the watching world to their toes in shock.
Now, writer Craig Brown reveals that the second, created by English movie director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting) was impressed by the opening sequence of 1977 James Bond thriller The Spy Who Beloved Me.
In his new book A Voyage Around the Queen, serialised in the UK’s Daily Mail newspaper, Brown quotes Boyle describing how he’d remembered the sequence whereby James Bond performed by Roger Moore skis to the sting of a mountain cliff then jumps off, thankfully withy parachute which opens to disclose the UK’s Union Jack flag, and all earlier than the movie’s opening credit.
Brown writes that Boyle and his workforce visited the Queen to ask how her lookalike needs to be dressed for the sequence. It was the Queen’s dresser Angela Kelly who went to ask the sovereign if she wish to be concerned, and the Queen agreed instantly – given that she obtained to say, “Good night, Mr Bond.”
The movie premiered on the London Olympic opening ceremony on July 27 2012, when it was watched by the biggest world viewers within the historical past of British tv.
The Queen succeeded in repeating the feat of a shock movie efficiency 10 years later throughout the Platinum Jubilee celebrations to mark her 70 years on the throne. She appeared, equally unexpectedly, in a movie with Paddington Bear, by which she confided she carried a purse always as a result of that was the place her marmalade sandwiches have been saved.
