Australian rocker recalls Queen Elizabeth II being ‘the most charismatic woman I have ever met’ and says he is not ‘so damn grouchy’ to refuse the invite
But he added “what I am also not is so spectacularly incurious about the world and the way it works, so ideologically captured, so damn grouchy, as to refuse an invitation to what will more than likely be the most important historical event in the UK of our age. Not just the most important, but the strangest, the weirdest.”
Cave is attending the coronation on Saturday in Westminster Abbey alongside Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese, footballer Sam Kerr, comedian Adam Hills, the governor general, and a number of other representatives from his country of birth.at an event in Buckingham Palace, saying she “seemed almost extraterrestrial and was the most charismatic woman I have ever met. Maybe it was the lighting, but she actually glowed.
He revealed, “to my bafflement”, he had cried while watching the queen’s funeral on television last year. “I guess what I am trying to say is that, beyond the interminable but necessary debates about the abolition of the monarchy, I hold an inexplicable emotional attachment to the Royals – the strangeness of them, the deeply eccentric nature of the whole affair that so perfectly reflects the unique weirdness of Britain itself. I’m just drawn to that kind of thing – the bizarre, the uncanny, the stupefyingly spectacular, the awe-inspiring.
Cave was born and raised in Australia, but has lived in Britain for years. In 2017, he was named an Officer of the Order of Australia – an honour established in 1975 by Elizabeth II.
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