Coronation Street star Maureen Lipman claims she had ‘premonition’ Queen would die

“Then I thought the show would be cancelled, it was in Manchester, and it was a one-woman show.”

The play launched last month and is about a woman called Rose who retraces her story from the devastation of Nazi-ruled Europe.

Maureen continued: “I didn’t think anyone would play that night but the director came through that we were all to carry on.

“All I can say is that it is quite a harrowing show as well as humourous, but all I can say is that it was very tender that night because my reaction was immediately visceral, I just sobbed.”

“But, literally, the show had to go on,” Maureen concluded.