Holly Willoughby made her feelings clear as they discussed the Queen on This Morning. The presenter was back at the helm of the ITV daytime show on Monday (July 4) alongside Phillip Schofield following a busy weekend for the pair.
While Phillip, 60, attended his first Pride in London since coming out as gay in February 2020 before swapping the capital for Silverstone on Sunday where he travelled by helicopter, Holly, 41, had to miss out on joining her co-star and friend as she celebrated her dad's 70th birthday.
After the pair discussed their weekends, with Holly having to explain the reason for her hoarse voice, it was soon time for the latest 'This Morning's View' segment where they were joined live in the ITV studio by Gyles Brandreth and royal expert Camilla Tominey.
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Among the stories being discussed was news that the Queen, who celebrated her history-making 70-year reign last month, has had her official duties scaled back following the ongoing mobility issues that have forced her to pull out of key events in recent months, including attending the Service of Thanksgiving during her Jubilee celebrations and the Derby at Epsom Downs.
It has been reported that Buckingham Palace has re-written Her Majesty's official duties for the first time in over a decade, with Prince Charles in line to take on some more of his 96-year-old mother's work.
As they discussed the subject, Camilla said: "Should we be expecting her to carry out the same level of duties that she did when she was 25 in 1962?" to which Phillip had already started to reply: "I think there's not a person watching that would say yes to that."
Camilla went on to explain how it was an annual review of all the accounting which starts by summarising her role as Head of State and then Head of Nation. She went on to say: "This plays into the fact she's deciding on the day what she does, because she's 96 and she's had episodic mobility issues.
"Having said that, she was on horseback a couple of weeks ago and doing better, so she's going to take each day as it comes." Holly then replied: "I feel like right now, where she is... This idea of 'must fulfilling' anything is a nonsense, isn't it?" Gyles then spoke of how the Queen had been seen in Scotland last week on 'good form'.
Holly was among the celebrities to take part in a special parade that wrapped up the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations early last month. The mum-of-three hopped aboard the 2010's bus alongside BBC Radio 2 star Rylan Clark, his former X Factor mentor Nicole Scherzinger, and Coronation Street star Antony Cotton, who has been celebrating being awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours.
The presenter was able to soak up the incredible atmosphere in the capital for the pageant, which started at Whitehall before processing up The Mall and finishing outside Buckingham Palace around Queen Victoria Memorial. The host of famous faces also included models Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell, and music stars Cliff Richard and Tony Hadley, who appeared as part of the street parade in decorated, open-top, double-decker buses each themed to a decade during The Time of Our Lives segment.
But Holly said the following day on This Morning of the moment the Queen appeared on the balcony alongside her three heirs to the throne: "Nobody knew, obviously you don’t know, you hope, you think maybe you might get to see something. And then suddenly you heard this roar and we turned around and there was the family on the balcony. And it was, you just felt like you were part of, you were seeing a piece of history… amazing."
"I'm overwhelmed, I still can’t quite believe it," Holly commented before adding: "I felt like a competition winner," as a clip of the TV star appeared on screen. She looked emotional alongside Rylan follow the Queen's balcony appearance and rendition of the national anthem.
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