Nelson Mandela, Queen He called Elizabeth by name, an unusual privilege in the strict protocol of the monarchy, this Friday (9) recalled the founding of the hero of the struggle against apartheid, and shared several anecdotes about their friendship.
Mandela, who spent 27 years in prison before becoming the first president of the young South African democracy, and Queen Elizabeth II, who died Thursday at the age of 96. It belongs to the Mandela Foundation, with which Elizabeth maintains close friendships.
“As a sign of mutual respect and love, they often talked on the phone, calling each other by their own names,” the text said.
“As he himself said, Nelson Mandela was an Anglophile and formed a close bond with the Queen in the years following his release,” he added.
The South African leader, who died in 2013 at the age of 95, also gave the monarch the nickname “Motlalepula”, meaning “arrival by rain”. During a state visit in 1995, at a banquet honoring the then-Monarch two years later, “Elizabeth” said that “Elizabeth” arrived at the same time as torrential rains “unprecedented for a long time” in the former British colony. Prince Charles.
In the last years of her life, Madiba (the name of Mandela’s clan) sarcastically asked, ‘Have you met the Queen?’ ‘ he amused himself.
The foundation joins the mourns pouring out from around the world to say “hamba kahle” (go in peace) to the queen.
source: Noticias
