LONDON, Might 26 (Reuters) – Since ascending the throne 70 years in the past, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth has turn into one of many world’s most well-known figures.
With a lot of her life documented, Reuters spoke to a number of royal consultants to ask them what little recognized details or anecdotes they knew in regards to the 96-year-old monarch.
Under are their quotes edited for size and readability.
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* The queen has a “pleasant sense of humour”
“All of us noticed a unique facet with the Queen… when she went together with that James Bond spoof… for the opening of the London Olympics,” royal biographer Penny Junor mentioned.
In a brief, tongue-in-cheek movie broadcast to a packed Olympic stadium and an enormous worldwide tv viewers, the Queen met Bond and boarded a helicopter with him. Stunt doubles for the pair then sky dived into the stadium, earlier than the true Queen took her seat.
“What the Queen has is a really skilled entrance that she has proven the world in her skilled position and a really mischievous and pleasant sense of humour that she has in personal and that her household see.”
* The queen is a “nice mimic”
Horse Racing – Royal Ascot – Ascot Racecourse, Ascot, Britain – June 19, 2021 Britain’s Queen Elizabeth earlier than the fifth race Motion Photographs by way of Reuters/Andrew Boyers/File Picture
“I do know she’s an amazing mimic. She has entertained privately members of her household with impersonations of assorted world leaders, and apparently she is an excellent mimic and will have made an inexpensive profession of it,” Charles Rae, former royal correspondent at The Solar newspaper, mentioned.
* Her sneakers are damaged in for her
“The queen must be on her toes quite a bit… so it is extremely essential that she is comfy and I imagine it’s the case that she has her sneakers, that are form of patent and low heeled, damaged in for her by a member of workers earlier than she ever wears them,” Lydia Slater, editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar journal, mentioned.
“So this member of workers, clearly with the identical sized toes, has to put on them on carpet for a number of days earlier than the queen places them on simply to ensure they do not rub and provides her blisters, which clearly might probably be disastrous if she’s on her toes.”
*She has ridden the Ascot course
“Nearly all people is aware of the queen has an amazing love of racing however I believe presumably folks do not recognise that she has successfully all however raced herself,” creator of ‘The Queen’ and historian Matthew Dennison mentioned.
“It was a royal household custom within the early years of the queen’s reign, that in Ascot week, the royal household themselves would race earlier than the racing… the queen and members of her household did certainly journey extraordinarily quick over the course…
“I believe someplace there, there is a form of poignancy as a result of in shifting extremely rapidly on horseback amongst a bunch of household, trusted courtiers and shut buddies, there is a form of freedom that clearly she did not fairly often have.”
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Reporting by Sarah Mills; Modifying by Marie-Louise Gumuchian and Alexandra Hudson
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