“It was two Americans on a walking holiday, and it was clear they hadn’t recognized her, which was fine,” protection officer Richard Griffin recounted. One of Queen Elizabeth’s former bodyguards recalled the time she epically trolled two clueless US tourists. “He said: Well if you’ve been coming here for 80 years, you must have met the queen?” the security detail recalled of the face-palm-worthy moment. While this cheeky clue sent the “cogs” turning, according to Griffin, the oblivious tourist still didn’t recognize his famous acquaintance. The oblivious tourist then asked the incognito monarch how long she had been coming here, whereupon she quipped that she’d been visiting the area for around 80 years, per Griffin’s account. Refusing to blow her cover, Elizabeth coyly replied “that she lived in London but had a house just over the hill,” the bemused bodyguard added. #PlatinumJubilee: /snTOgEoGu1- Sky News June 3, 2022 “The American man asked her if she lived in the area to which she replied that she did indeed have a house nearby.”įormer Royal protection officer Richard Griffin reminisces about a picnic he went on with the Queen at Balmoral and an encounter they had with two American tourists who did not realise they were in the company of the monarch.
“It was two Americans on a walking holiday, and it was clear they hadn’t recognized her, which was fine,” Griffin recounted at June’s Platinum Jubilee. “There were two hikers coming towards us and the queen would always stop and say hello,” former Protection Officer Richard Griffin told SKY News in a resurfaced clip about the uproarious encounter, which occurred while he was walking with Elizabeth outside Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.Ĭue the “Undercover Boss” theme song! As the monarch was wearing a headscarf and a tweed jacket at the time, the tourists assumed she was just another visitor. One of the more hilarious tales, shared by her bodyguard at the Queen’s Jubilee, came after the quick-witted monarch trolled two US tourists who didn’t recognize her at her own home. This royal “Punking” put Ashton Kutcher to shame.įollowing the death of Queen Elizabeth II at 96 on Thursday, the royal’s friends and admirers came forward in droves to reminisce about her countless iconic moments. Queen Elizabeth’s friendship with my grandfather Nelson Mandela showed moral leadership - which King Charles must carry on Man arrested for rushing Queen’s casket was checking if she was ‘alive’ Queen was ‘very hurt’ after Harry, Meghan quit royal family, new book claims Tyler Perry gets candid about Meghan Markle, Prince Harry’s ‘difficult time’ post-Megxit
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