A touching conversation between Baroness Floella Benjamin and the late Queen has come to light – a conversation which inspired one of the Queen’s final wishes a decade later
One of the late Queen’s final wishes after a poignant and touching conversation with Baroness Floella Benjamin has been revealed a year after her passing.
Baroness Benjamin was appointed to the Order of the Merit by the Queen after she heard about the Baroness’ childhood in the UK, marred by racism after she migrated from Trinidad as a 10-year-old. The Liberal Democrat peer and TV presenter has shed light on the conversation she had with the Queen shortly before her death.
The Queen spoke with Baroness Benjamin during her Diamond Jubilee in 2012 while on a visit to Exeter University. The Baroness, who was chancellor of the university for a decade, revealed she was told that the Queen remembered their conversation shortly before her death.
“I said: âMa’am, when I was a little girl in Trinidad, I was told The Queen loved me. I was told I was British. But when I came here, I wasn’t part of that motherland they told me about. I had to face so much adversity, break down so many barriers,'” the Baroness recalled.