The story of how the Queen Elizabeth her handling of an encounter with an American tourist who failed to recognize her, as recounted by her former bodyguard, reveals a scandalous side of her personality that the public rarely saw.
The monarch was walking in the hills near Balmoral when two American tourists who did hiking one of them also approached her caught her conversation, said her former bodyguard, Richard “Dick” Griffin.
The hiker he asked the queen where she lived, she replied in London, adding that she also has a cottage over the hill and has been visiting the area since she was a little girl, over 80 years. He did not explain to him that the “country house» was Balmoral Castle. But he, knowing that Balmoral was nearby, asked her if she had ever met the… queen.
“I don’t, but Dick from here often meets hershe replied.
The hiker then turned to the bodyguard and asked him how the queen was in character.
“Because I’ve been with her a long time and I know I can tease her, I said, Oh, she’s awkward sometimes, but she’s got an amazing sense of humor».
Excited, the hiker put his hand on Griffin’s shoulders and asked the queen to give them… take photo. She, very obligingly, took the camera and photographed them. Griffin then took another photo, with the Queen in the middle of the two hikers.
Later, Elizabeth told him: “I’d like to be a fly on the wall when he shows this photo to his friends in America and hopefully someone tells him who I am».
Source: News Beast
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