BBC News viewers tickled by hilarious interview with woman placing Princess Leia figurine outside Buckingham Palace at 3am-Cydney Yeates-Entertainment – Metro

Interviews with the public featured in the BBC’s overnight coverage in the wake of the Queen’s death are proving to be quite the entertaining watch.

People up and down the country have been busy gathering outside Buckingham Palace to pay tribute to the late monarch following her death on Thursday aged 96.

After one man ended up outside the palace after a work event in the early hours of Friday morning, it seemed as though the channel’s wildly amusing vox pop interviews couldn’t get much better.

But a new interview, involving a woman and a Princess Leia doll, might just take the biscuit.

In a live interview, the woman explained to the news channel that she was placing down a miniature figurine of the character, made famous by Carrie Fisher, in front of the palace by way of a tribute.

‘I’m putting Princess Leia down for her because she was a very strong woman in a world of men and she did not complain but she took her space and she made her path and I really admire her for that,’ the woman told BBC News at 3am.

A woman placed a Princess Leia doll outside Buckingham Palace to honour the Queen’s strength (Picture: BBC)

The woman described the late monarch as a ‘very strong woman in a world of men’ (Picture: BBC)

Princess Leia was of course made famous by Carrie Fisher in the Star Wars franchise (Picture: Getty)

‘And I think that there’s something to aspire to and I think she’s a role model for all of us.’

The woman added that the Princess Leia doll symbolises the Queen’s strength.

‘I just admire how she changed,’ she continued. ‘The time that she ruled… 70 years. So much happened, especially for women. So much of how women developed in those times, I think she is a role model.’

Viewers were in hysterics by the interview and it quickly circulated on social media.   

‘I was getting tired of the blanket coverage but this makes it almost worth it,’ wrote one, referring to the BBC clearing its schedule to focus on the monarch’s death.

The Queen died peacefully surrounded by her loved ones at Balmoral aged 96 (Picture: PA)

People gather in tribute as the cortege carrying the coffin of the late Queen Elizabeth II passes by on (Picture: Getty)

‘I think this is my favourite tribute yet,’ another wrote, as a third laughed: ‘She would have been proud, not the Queen but Carrie Fisher.’

News of Queen Elizabeth II’s death was announced live on BBC One by presenter Huw Edwards, who had been fronting the channel’s rolling coverage,

‘A few moments ago Buckingham Palace announced the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II,’ he told viewers.

He then read out the statement from the Palace which said: ‘The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon.

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‘The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.’

On Sunday morning, shortly after 10am, the hearse carrying the Queen passed through the gates of the royal residence where she had traditionally spent her summers.

The hearse is making a journey of around 180 miles from Balmoral to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh.

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