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Jeremy Clarkson praises Boris Johnson's 'beautiful words' for Queen

Jeremy Clarkson praised Boris Johnson's tribute. (PA Images via Getty Images)
Jeremy Clarkson praised Boris Johnson's tribute. (PA Images via Getty Images)

Jeremy Clarkson has praised Boris Johnson's "beautiful words" about the Queen, revealing it was everything he wanted to say himself.

The Top Gear and Grand Tour star told fans on Twitter that he had been thinking about what to say in a tribute after the monarch passed away at the age of 96.

He went on to share the former Prime Minister's words, telling his own followers: "This is what he wrote. I agree with it all."

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Johnson said in his moving post: "This is our country's saddest day.

FILE - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, right, greets Prime Minister Boris Johnson at an audience at Buckingham Palace, London, Wednesday June 23, 2021, the Queen's first in-person weekly audience with the Prime Minister since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. In seven decades on the throne, Queen Elizabeth II saw 15 British prime ministers come and go, from Winston Churchill to Margaret Thatcher to Boris Johnson to Liz Truss. (Dominic Lipinski/Pool via AP, File)
Boris Johnson penned a moving tribute to the late monarch. (Dominic Lipinski/Pool via AP, File)

"In the hearts of everyone, there is an ache at the passing of our Queen, a deep and personal sense of loss - far more intense, perhaps, than we expected.

"In these first grim moments since the news, I know that millions and millions of people have been pausing whatever they have been doing, to think about Queen Elizabeth, about the bright and shining light that has finally gone out.

"She seemed so timeless and wonderful that I am afraid we had come to believe, like children, that she would just go on and on.

"Wave after wave of grief is rolling across the country from Balmoral - where our thoughts are with the Royal Family - and far beyond this country and throughout that great Commonwealth of Nations that she so cherished, and which cherished her in return."

TV star Clarkson added in a separate post: "I was trying to think of something to say but Boris Johnson has said it all.

Jeremy Clarkson at the Memorial Hall in Chadlington, where he held a showdown meeting with local residents over concerns about his Oxfordshire farm shop. Picture date: Thursday September 9, 2021.
Jeremy Clarkson said Boris Johnson's words were 'beautiful'. (PA)

"Whatever you think of him, the man can write.

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"Some beautiful words about a magnificent monarch."

The monarch's death was announced on Thursday evening (8 September), with Buckingham Palace announcing that she "died peacefully at Balmoral".

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