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Helen Mirren dresses like the Queen, grants sick child's wish to meet royality

Helen Mirren has granted a boy's dying wish to meet the Queen — by dressing as Her Majesty and inviting him round for tea. Oliver Burton, ten, may have just weeks to live after being hit by cancer for a third time.Visiting the Queen at Buckingham Palace topped his list of dream activities — but his family was told a meeting would not be possible. So Helen stepped in, bringing him in a limo to see her West End show "The Audience" — in which she plays the Queen — then taking him backstage to meet her corgis.The actress, 67, even "knighted" the excited schoolboy "Sir Oliver" during his visit, telling The Sun : "It was a pleasure and a privilege to meet such a brave young man."Oliver, from Leicester, was first diagnosed with leukaemia in 2006, aged three. He recovered but in 2010 the cancer returned — and once again he pulled through. Then last Christmas he was diagnosed with cancer in his spine and bone marrow — and this time intensive treatment is not possible, so he returned home with h...

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