Sandra Oh , star of Killing Eve and Grey's Anatomy, and TV personality Bear Grylls were also   at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth .

The actress, born in Canada of South Korean immigrant parents, 51, dressed in black with a Canadian badge pinned to the front, was in attendance because in June this year she was named Officer of the Order of Canada for her "full artistic career." of memorable theatrical, television and film roles in Canada and abroad ".

The civil honor, the second in Canada, was created in 1967 by the Queen to honor personalities "whose service shapes our society, whose innovations ignite our imaginations and whose compassion unites our communities."

For a decade, Dr. Cristina Yang in the medical series Grey's Anatomy, for which she won various awards, including a Golden Globe and an Emmy, Oh was part of a delegation, led by Canadian Premier Justin Trudeau , of the holders of the Victoria Cross, of George Cross and the Orders of Chivalry, along with other Commonwealth officers. Other members of the Canadian delegation included Olympic swimming champion Mark Tewksbury and musician Gregory Charles.

Also present at the funeral was tv personality and mountaineer Bear Grylls , representing the Scout Association sponsored by the Queen. Famous for the TV series Man vs. Nature and the youngest Briton to climb Everest (aged 23), Grylls was named Scout Leader in 2009 when he was 34. The entire Scout family, he said on the death of the 96-year-old sovereign, "united in sorrow for the loss of our patron" who left a "luminous legacy of hope and promise for future generations".

The Queen, Grylls added, has supported young people in the UK throughout her life and was "especially proud" when girls were able to join the organization for the first time in the 1970s.

(Unioneonline / D)

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