AN AUSTRALIAN woman has remembered the magical moment she met the Queen during a visit to the city more than 30 years ago.

Michelle Chance, 39, who lives in Queensland in Australia, was visiting her family in Worcester as a six-year-old during the same time the Queen visited the city alongside Prince Phillip in 1989.

The six-year-old was snapped stretching over a barrier to hand the Queen a bouquet of flowers in an unforgettable moment.

Ms Chance, whose family still live in Lowell Street in Worcester, said she was devastated to hear the news almost 10,000 miles away and has not stopped crying following the announcement of the Queen’s death on Thursday (September 8).

She said: “When I met her that day, mum and I had been shopping and we had bought flowers for my dad and my nan, and we were going to the cemetery.

“We were walking back at the same time as the Queen was coming out, so we stopped to see her. That was when one of the police officers said we have another child here and that's when I was lifted over the fence to meet her. She told me I was very kind. So, the Queen got my dad’s flowers!”

“It was just so amazing. I can still remember being pulled over the fence, I’ll remember it for the whole of my life.

The Queen came to Worcester alongside Prince Phillip in November 1989 visiting Worcester Cathedral and the Guildhall during a four-hour trip.

“I remember her just saying to me ‘you’re very kind’, she added. “That seems to be what a lot of people who have met her have said. She was so beautiful, and I fell in love with her there and then when I was six years old.

“Everybody knows that I’ve met the Queen because I tell everybody that I’ve met the Queen.

“My mum took me to Disneyland not long before I had met the Queen and meeting her was better than anything at Disneyland. I got to meet a real Queen!”

“I’ve been crying all day and I’m still crying now. It’s just so sad.”