Queen Elizabeth II funniest moments: Gyles Brandreth reveals amazing stories about the Queen

And then she's washing the dishes. I don't think she can handle this. The credit came from one side. He couldn't lift her alone, oh my God, so the

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came from the other side. I don't think this appears in The. Crowning a very unlikely friendship with a pigeon racer in Norfolk, the way to the Queen's heart was basically talking about dogs, horses, everything results in carrier pigeons, but I discovered that, in Sandringham, which is one of the states where the Queen lived nearby, there she found out that there was a guy who was a carrier pigeon collector and he had a wonderful collection of carrier pigeons and she became friends with him and apparently she would go and spend an hour or two in his Loft talking about carrier pigeons with him.

This is incredible but it was the pigeons it was a shared love the

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was very happy when I said I can't stand the way my children leave the lights on you should know she said I said yes you should know I used to walk around the Buckingham Palace Trying to turn off the lights would have had to be working with a lot of lights and I couldn't always find where the switches were and sometimes the people who found them, like real people, found it very difficult. David Cameron, Prime Minister, the Prime Minister always came up to Scotland, he spent a weekend with the Queen during the summer holidays and they would go on a picnic and the Queen and Prince Philip would look after them if Prince Philip had the barbecue. queen waited on people and David Cameron British Prime Minister for several years just couldn't understand this this is the queen this is Queen Victoria very clear this is Elizabeth's ascendant and she brings me the sausage and mash I don't know, you know and then she's washing the dishes I don't know I don't think I can handle this but to the queen it was normal and of course it was a life of service and in fact one day after having been prime minister for some years, He thought, "Well, actually I mean, I'll help." with the washing I will do it like I do at home so she got up and started putting on the gloves to wash the dishes and the queen said what the hell does the Prime Minister think he is doing in your place we are the hosts here.

I love that she had a nanny who looked after her named Bobo McDonald, who went everywhere with her and quite alarmed the Duke of Edinburgh because when she showed up on their honeymoon, the boo-boo came too, she went into the bathroom and there was the The queen was getting ready for him to bathe and sitting on the edge of the tub was Bobo, the beginning of a worried room adjuster testing the temperature. What is this woman doing here? Someone came up to Balmoral and said, Oh, you can get there. We can talk to the Duke of Edinburgh about anything but the Queen is more limited in our conversation unless you have dogs and horses, you only talk about International Affairs and she followed International Affairs.

There's a famous story of I think it was Gordon Brown, another of our prime ministers went to their weekly audience and they came in and the queen said, "Oh, what a shame about the prime minister from wherever he was" and he said, what do you mean? ? and he was the prime minister of a Commonwealth country who had just resigned and the queen knew before the prime minister did, she was really into the money and you know, she very rarely expressed preferences for anything. Turns out I know what her favorite musical was because I told her. Furious if she had published that during her lifetime, but she made an exception: People often asked her who is the most notable person she has ever met because she knew everyone from Marilyn Monroe and Frank Sinatra to President Putin. and Idi Amin.

She had met everyone. Spectrum, but if you told her who the most notable person you've ever met was, you could have her say someone and it was always Nelson Mandela, yeah, because she was so moved by the way she had come out of 27 years in prison without Ranker. and the queen could make the most wonderful impressions and not only of people, but she could make a very good impression of Concord. The plane landed over Windsor Castle. Excuse me, the plane was landing on them. Why did they build Windsor Castle? Have you really witnessed the queen? Doing it at Concord Landing, she was very loud and a friend, I mean she's kind of a Britain's Got Talent sketch, she was very talented if you saw her with Paddington Bear, you know what a talented performance she was. um I think she was happy because she was driven, she was driven by duty, she was sustained by faith, the most important thing for her in life, she once told me out of the blue that we weren't in church at the time and I mentioned something about the Lord's Prayer, Father, who is in heaven and she said sometimes the Lord's Prayer is all you need and that mattered to her faith mattered to her I found out they weren't photographs so there used to be a film of her on a Sunday morning going to church what we didn't know was that this was her second time going to church, it should have been just in private earlier that day, so her faith was important to her;

It is often said that when she met her future husband, who was Prince Philip of Greece in the 1930s, he was about 18 and she was 13 and they met at Dartmouth Naval College and it is often said, of In fact, it was said in many of her and her husband's obituaries and it was then when they met for the first time that they were not cousins, they were both great-great-grandparents. grandchildren of Queen Victoria and they knew each other since they were children, they must have met before and he said that she only had eyes for him, as I discovered, and I revealed to him that she also had eyes for other people, in fact, I am able to quote some letters and some diaries of the time where it is clear that there were one or two more good-looking young men who she thought might even be husband material, there was a matter of politics with her.

I went to a show with them once and he was something called The Royal Variety Show to raise money for charity and if he didn't like an act he was mumbling about it, you know, looking at his stuff going "Oh God", Elton John didn't. again, but the queen was very even and I realized during the show that she would clap if she really enjoyed it sitting there, she didn't enjoy it, she doesn't look at her watch, but the queen clapped consistently the same amount of time almost to the second. for each act when the interval came I said well you did it you seem to enjoy everything I should I well I did he said you seem to enjoy everything equally you your man she well maybe not she said but you I said you applauded or just as old Well, yes, you see, we are on television and their families may have been watching.

I didn't exactly want to, yeah, one of the protocols with the queen is that you're not supposed to start the conversation, they have to actually lead the conversation with her. The passions in life you liked to talk about were dogs and horses. I know very little about dogs and horses so she was quite relaxed so she often started the conversation and sometimes when we talked about children or grandchildren what I noticed was that when she talked. Regarding her children or her grandchildren she never chose anyone, she always used to go in descending order, so she talked about the eldest first and then the next girl.

Doesn't she do the same with her grandchildren? So it seemed to be in their DNA. To be totally fair, I know it's true because the only other person in the room who is still alive told me the story of Margaret Thatcher, one of our longest-serving British prime ministers, our first woman. prime minister, in fact, when you become prime minister in In this country you go every week when Parliament is sitting to meet the king or queen, to let off steam and keep them up to date, and the first time Mrs Thatcher became Prime Minister went to Buckingham Palace to meet the queen and it is traditional to bow if you are a man or bow if you are a woman in front of the sovereign and the aquarium take Mrs Thatcher to meet the queen for the first time He said Prime Minister, do you have your courtesy ready?

Surely yes, I'm completely ready with that and they went into the room and Aquarius said, Your Majesty, the Prime Minister, Your Majesty, then he left the room or was about to do so and as he was backing away he saw Mrs. Thatcher Guernsey, she cuts it straight. the ground was beautiful and brave and she stayed there she couldn't get up she had cut it so deeply that she got stuck in the ground and she is very lucky that the gravity didn't reach the maximum I think she was everything it was like the equator came to a side strong signs Mrs Thatcher the credit came from one side he couldn't lift it alone oh my God then the queen came from the other side I don't think this appeared in The Crown someone like President Eisenhower and I quoted from the Book this wonderful correspondence, this is after President Eisenhower had been visiting the state, I think, with the queen at Balmore and her Scottish house and suddenly he saw it on television and in a news story and he remembered, oh God, that I promised the president. my crumpet recipe he especially liked my resume and maybe he didn't seem to have made them, so he wrote in big, crazy handwriting, you know?

Dear Mr. President, I hope all is well for you and the children in the great month of June that I have just remembered. didn't she send you that recipe every once in a while she wrote the recipe aren't you one of those private Council meetings he's all the ministers um the queen was there presiding and someone's cell phone her cell phone rang one of the Minister's cell phones He left and the minister was terribly embarrassed and the queen said, "Oh, you'd better answer that I was very sorry. If you'd better answer it, it might be someone important," and that was the queen speaking.

There was a great movie made with Helen Mirren playing the queen and I said, have you seen this? It's a very popular movie to the point where, of course, I proceeded, she said, but I understand they have the queen crying. I told her yes, she said, well, the queen doesn't cry, she never said no. it doesn't make her seem interesting it doesn't make her insensitive he immediately knew that's what you would say oh never never of course she could have cried I don't know but she wasn't given to crying that wasn't her Star doesn't mean you don't have feelings, she said, but the press always wants to see her cry and show us how you feel, so, for example, they wanted to illustrate that she felt more for her, the royal yacht Britannia, than for her. her own children, so pictures were taken when this boat was a beautiful boat that she loved and toured a lot and used to spend summer vacations on it, where every summer vacation it showed a James Bond movie which he liked a lot.

James phone movie told me oh everything is getting fixed now and she said until they rang so loud yeah anyway um she can play the movies noise was too loud he said yes in the television, everything is very loud, but I can't understand what. They're saying that's by the bay um uh, pictures were taken that seemed to show her crying and he said, of course, give them what they want, they think she was crying, we were all crying, the wind was terrible, it was a very really cold. that kind of thing made them mad she think she just took it oh she's tried thanks for watching on thursdays don't forget to tune in to palace confidential your weekly look at all things royal