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The queen received applause on the platinum anniversary celebration with stars

TV presenter Alan Tichmarsh said that “our identity, heart and soul are embodied by Her Majesty the Queen”.

Gardening guru and writer told presenters Philip Schofield and Julie Echingham: “This is a remarkable year, 70 years for a remarkable woman I have met quite often and I was amazed because she is such a fiercely good company.

“She has great quiet charisma, like Nelson Mandela. He had some grace, and the queen is the same. It is important in our lives, especially in the last few years, to have special ones.

“If we don’t know our own family history, we know hers, and she somehow shares her pedigree with us, and her history is our history, and that matters to us. Whether we realize it or not.

Cruz, best known for the action movie franchises Top Gun and Mission Impossible, told Schofield and Etchingham that the queen “is a woman I admire a lot.”