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Canada’s former governor general Rt. Hon. David Johnston spoke with Global News' Jeff Semple shortly after the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II on Monday, calling the service “simply extraordinary. Moving. Touching."

“Such a sense of service of this remarkable woman. We’ll not see the like of her again,” Johnston said.

The former governor general also recounted a story of himself and the queen, for which he was criticized in the British press.

“We were there for the 60th anniversary and we had unveiled a portrait and we were coming out down the steps. And there was a red carpet on the steps – and I was about a foot and a half behind her and on the second-last drop, the carpet had rippled and her foot was going right for it – and I thought ‘my heavens she’s going to step on it and trip.’ I knew the protocol – don’t touch the queen – but my mother’s voice was in my ear,” Johnston recalls.

Jeff Semple has more from London.

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