Death of Elizabeth II: anecdotes with the queen reappear

Throughout her life, Elizabeth II showed two faces: an austere and completely devoted woman on the one hand and a mischievous and tongue-in-cheek person on the other. During a picnic in Balmoral (Scotland), Theresa May, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, drops a piece of cheese on the ground in front of the sovereign. “I picked up the cheese, put it on a plate and put it back on the table. I turned around and saw that all my movements were being carefully observed by Her Majesty the Queen. I looked at her, she looked at me. And she just smiled…”. The cheese then remained on the table.

Another anecdote took place with his bodyguard, still at Balmoral. As they walk through the countryside, they come across two Americans who don’t recognize the queen at all. “The American gentleman asks the Queen, ‘Where do you live? I live in London. But I have another country house on the other side of the hill'”reports Richard Griffin, former bodyguard. “‘He said to her, ‘you must have met the queen?’ She replies, ‘I don’t, but he often meets her.’ And then he puts his arm around my shoulder, gives the camera to the queen and asks her to take a picture of us.”