Queen Elizabeth II visits set of TV soap ‘Coronation Street’
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Queen Elizabeth II visits set of TV soap ‘Coronation Street’

Associated Press  

LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II has visited the set of “Coronation Street” to mark the long-running television soap’s 60th birthday. It was the second time the queen, 95, has visited Coronation Street — the first time was in the early 1980s, at the show’s original studios in Manchester. She told the cast it was “really marvelous you’ve been able to carry on” during the pandemic, and took time to chat to backstage staff including writers, camera operators, set designers and sound engineers. Probably better not.” Actor Bill Roache, who has played Ken Barlow for decades since the soap’s early days, said the royal visit was a “wonderful bit of icing on the cake.” “She just smiles.

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