A comical anecdote about Queen Elizabeth II popped back up online Thursday following the passing of the 96-year-old monarch.
In video that resurfaced online, former royal bodyguard Richard Griffin told Sky News in June, at the queen’s Platinum Jubilee, about a time near Balmoral Castle where the pair ran into two American tourists who did not recognize Her Majesty.
“It was clear from the moment we stopped they hadn’t recognized the queen, which is fine,” Griffin said of the American tourists.
Engaging in small talk, the queen told the tourists she lived in London, but had a “holiday home” in the area. “I’ve been coming up here since I was a little girl, so over 80 years,” she said.
“Well, if you’ve been coming up here for 80 years, you must have met the queen,” one of the tourists told her.
“Well, I haven’t. But Dick here meets her regularly,” the queen replied without missing a beat, the bodyguard recalled.
“And because I was with her a long time I knew I could pull her leg,” Griffin said. “So I said, ‘She can be very cantankerous at times, but she’s got a lovely sense of humor.’”
“Anyway, next thing I knew, this guy comes ’round, puts his arm around my shoulder and … gets his camera, gives it to the queen, and says ‘Can you take a picture of the two of us?’” the former body guard said.
Griffin said they took photos, including the tourists with the queen they did not recognize.
“We waved goodbye and Her Majesty said to me, ‘I’d love to be a fly on the wall when he shows those photographs to his friends in America and hopefully someone tells him who I am,’” she quipped.
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