'I saw the Queen at her most fierce, watched her fight back tears and squirm as she laughed at my expense, but it was as a schoolboy in 1959 that I first glimpsed her film-star quality.' ✍️ Ken Lennox writes for MetroOpinion
Once, an American tourist stopped her and said, ‘Gee, you sure do look like the Queen’, and Her Majesty responded: ‘How reassuring”
Usually, she’d drive herself, with just one security officer. If one of the royal children had a birthday, the Queen would pop into the local toy shop and personally select a different toy for every child visiting Balmoral. At one of the gun dog trials where it was bucketing with rain – as usual – I sought shelter in a tea hut and joined the long queue for a cuppa. I was so busy talking to a gamekeeper, I took no notice of the lady in front of me but when she turned, she spilled her tea straight down my sleeve. She flashed me a big smile and said, ‘Oh, excuse me.’ It was the Queen – queuing up patiently.
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