"When I told my mum last night that I was getting to meet you, she cried. if I thought anybody in a wheelchair, let alone myself, could be Australian of the Year, I wouldn't have believed you," Mr Alcott said. "When I was a young kid I used to hate myself, Your Majesty, and. The tennis star became slightly emotional as he told the Queen about "the honour" of being an advocate for people with a disability as Australian of the Year. "The reason I get out of bed every day is to change perceptions, so people with disability, people like me, can get out and live the lives they deserve to live," Mr Alcott added. "This is awesome," the 31-year-old said, before going on to joke that he "unfortunately won a couple of Wimbledon titles", beating Great Britain's players which she may not have been "so happy about", prompting laughter from the Queen. Mr Alcott - a four-time Paralympic gold-medal winner - was the first to introduce himself to the Queen, telling her that when he informed his mother he would be meeting the monarch she had burst into tears. I’m not going to lie,” Alcott said of the queen once the call was over.Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles, Prince of Wales on the balcony of Buckingham Palace during Trooping The Colour on Jin London, England “When I told my mum last night that I was getting to meet you, she cried,” confided Dylan Alcott, a wheelchair tennis player and four-time Paralympic gold medalist. The video was recorded on the 34th anniversary of her royal trip Down Under. In a nine-minute conversation, the queen spoke with the award winners about their charity work and thanked them for their service. The Pool of Reflection within Australia’s modernist legislative complex has become an infamous site of unexpected dunkings over the years. I wondered how many people had fallen into it.” “I don’t know whether it’s still there, but there was a little pond there, inside,” she reminisced. Queen Elizabeth II spoke over Zoom with Australian of the Year award winners. “Oh! Indeed - trying to avoid that bit of water,” she responded sharply, flashing a brief grimace. “It might invoke some memories of your time here,” David Hurley, Australia’s governor-general, gently reminded the 96-year-old monarch.
The video, released Saturday by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to mark the queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebration, was recorded on May 9 - the 34th anniversary of her royal trip Down Under, when she attended the official opening of Parliament House in Canberra. Daniel Nour, named Young Australian of the Year for founding a mobile medical service that helps the homeless. A chatty Queen Elizabeth II showed off her dry sense of humor in a Zoom meeting with Australian of the Year award winners, teasing them about their Parliament building and marveling over the “splendid” technology that made their long-distance meeting possible.
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