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Sir David Attenborough joins celebrity tributes to Queen: 'She could put you at ease'

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The environmentalist and broadcaster, first knighted by the Queen in 1985, said he would remember Her Majesty as someone who had an "extraordinary ability to put you at your ease".Sir David, 96, said: "If there was a technical hitch she wanted to know what it was, and if it had a funny side, she was quick to see the joke.

Yet not for one second could you forget that you were in the presence of someone who had willingly accepted enormous responsibility and dedicated her life to serving the nation - that you were, in short, in the presence of royalty.The whole nation is bereaved."Sir David and the Queen had known each other for many years.

He produced her televised Christmas Day address in the 1980s and 1990s and featured in the BBC's Platinum Party at the Palace earlier this year to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee.In 2020, Sir David was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael And St George for services to television broadcasting and to conservation in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.Dame Joanna Lumley, 76, joined in the tributes and said the Queen represented "all that was kind and fair, brave and good-hearted, noble and entirely admirable".She added: "We shall miss her with all our hearts and wish her safe travelling on her final great journey.She was adored and respected and as we send our loving sympathies to all the members of the Royal Family, we count ourselves lucky to have lived during her long and fabulous reign.

God bless her - and long live our great new King."Sir Rod Stewart and Dame Joan Collins, 89, also reflected on their meetings with the Queen.Sir Rod, 77, paid tribute in an Instagram post, saying: "The Queen has been an unwavering presence throughout my life and a great unifier.

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