Her face is on currency around the world, but Queen Elizabeth still manages to slip under the radar sometimes.
One of Queen Elizabeth’s former royal protection officers has revealed Her Majesty once bumped into some American tourists while out walking near Balmoral, and chatted to them happily about the Queen, all the while not revealing who she was.
Richard Griffin told The Times that he was walking with the Queen near her Scottish home when they met some tourists, who didn’t realise the elderly woman in tweed and a headscarf was the glamorous royal they were so desperate to meet.
When the tourists asked if she lived locally, the Queen simply replied she had “a house nearby” and when quizzed if she’d met the monarch, she said: “No, but he has,” gesturing to Richard.
We wonder if the tourists ever realised just how remarkable this encounter was!
This story orignally appeared on The Australian Women’s Weekly
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