April 10,2018
Actress-filmmaker Angelina Jolie has praised Queen Elizabeth II as a "really
lovely lady" who cares about the future.
Jolie, 42, praised the Queen for
her dedication to helping in planting trees in Africa to highlight the
importance of forest conservation, saying she has been inspired by the
91-year-old royal to teach her own children - Maddox, 16, Pax, 14, Zahara, 12,
Shiloh, 11, and twins Vivienne and Knox, 9, about the cause, reports
femalefirst.co.uk.
In a new documentary titled "The Queen's Green
Planet", Jolie said: "For us to come here and say to the children, 'This is why
it's important to plant a tree', that's the biggest message I can teach my kids,
and it's something that they've certainly learned from Her Majesty and her
message.
"My kids ask me, 'Why is it so important to her?' You know when
you sit up at night in a tent with your kids and they say, 'Why does the Queen
of England care about planting trees in Africa? What it comes down to is you say
to the kids, 'You know really, you don't know her, you can't understand all that
it means to be a queen and all that.
"But you try to say, 'You know she's
just this really lovely lady who really cares about people around the world, and
she really cares about the future, and she wants your grandkids and her
grandkids to be able to be running around, enjoying nature and other cultures,
and the importance of other cultures."
"The Queen's Green Planet"
highlights the environmental project The Queen's Canopy, which aims to unite all
the countries of the commonwealth in conservation efforts.