Queen Elizabeth II will not soon forget this royal misstep: Her encounter with a craftsman will make Royal fans laugh.
London – politician, athlete, actor – Queen Elizabeth II (95) has shaken thousands of hands in her 69-year reign. Not every one of these meetings is likely to have stuck in her mind to this day, but one very specific conversation is certainly burned into the monarch’s memory.
The documentary “Secrets of the Royal Palaces”, which was broadcast on the TV station Channel 5, among others, gives a glimpse behind the walls of Windsor Castle, Kensington Palace & Co Among other things, employees of the British royal family have their say, who not only reveal many a secret, but also divulge one or two funny anecdotes.
24royal.de * knows how Queen Elizabeth II reacted to the craftsman’s clear announcement.
In the first episode of the eight-part documentary series, Kevin Andrews, who used to work as an upholsterer at Buckingham Palace, describes a funny incident in which a colleague made a serious mistake in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II. As Andrews reports in the documentary, his friend was just dismantling a desk in a room in the palace when the door opened: “A woman said, ‘Would you like a cup of tea?’ and he said, ‘Yeah, I want a cup of tea. In a mug. Two pieces of sugar. Artisan tea. I don’t want this nonsense that I had when I was here last time, this fine china and all that saucer stuff. ‘“ * 24royal.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.
