BBC host Clive Myrie says parents always looked up to Queen but 'times are different now'
express.co.ukBBC journalist and Mastermind presenter, Clive Myrie, 57, has spoken about how his parents “looked up to the Queen” but that “that is very much a generational thing and times are different now”.
Clive, who has been frontline reporting on the war in Ukraine, has presented a documentary looking at the history of the Crown Jewels, a world-famous collection of over 23,000 gemstones.Clive says his octogenarian parents, who moved from Jamaica to Bolton in the 1960s, have always had respect for the monarchy.He explained, in a new interview: “Certainly Caribbean people of their generation looked up to the Queen.“I think there’s a residual sense of pride knowing that they are subjects of this particular monarchy.He added that “times are different now”, saying: “However, I must make the point that that is very much a generational thing and times are different now.”Growing up, Clive said: “As a child of the Empire, there was no positive connection” for him to the Crown Jewels.He thought of them as “relics of a bygone era”.Making the documentary was a chance for Clive to learn more about the Crown Jewels and their history, he said.He explained, while laughing: “I’d say I didn’t have any connection.”“They weren’t really something I had considered investigating.“But then you look into the history and of course it’s complicated.“A lot of these gems come out of revolution, out of Empire, out of duplicity.“It’s a difficult, exotic, amazing history.“I suppose the point is to get that history out there and then people can come up with their own ideas about how important these things are to us as a nation.”When asked whether he thinks the famous Koh-i-Noor diamond, which is currently set in the Queen Mother’s Crown and has a complicated.
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