1 Two American Hikers Encountered the Queen
He started off by explaining that normally there were no people around the picnic sites. However, on that day, there were two American hikers “on a walking holiday” heading in their direction. “The Queen would always stop and say hello,” he explains.
2 They Had No Idea Who She Was
The hikers started chatting with them. “It was clear from the moment that we first stopped, they hadn’t recognized the Queen, which is fine,” he continued. “The American gentleman was telling the queen where he came from, where they were going next, and where they’d been to in Britain.”
3 They Were Asking Her Questions
“I could see it coming and sure enough, he said to Her Majesty, ‘and where do you live?’ And she said, ‘Well, I live in London, but I’ve got a holiday home, just on the other side of the hills.’ And he said, ‘Well, how often have you been coming up here?’ ‘Oh,’ she said, ‘I’ve been coming up here ever since I was a little girl. So over 80 years.’”
4 They Asked Her If She Had Met the Queen
“You could see the clocks ticking,” he went on. “He said, ‘Well, if you’d been coming up here for 80 years, you must have met the Queen.’ And as quick as a flash she says, ‘Well, I haven’t. But Dick here meets her regularly.’ So the guy said to me, ‘Well, you’ve met the Queen. What is she like?’ And because I was with her a long time and I knew I could pull her leg. I said, ‘Oh, she can be very cantankerous at times, but she’s got a lovely sense of humor.’” ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb
5 They Took a Picture with Her
“And anyway, the next thing I knew, this guy comes around, puts his arm around my shoulder and before I could see what’s happening, he gets his camera, gives it to the Queen and says, ‘Can you take a picture of the two of us?’ Anyway, we swap places. And I took a picture of them with a Queen and we never let on. And we wave goodbye. And then ‘Imagine,’ she said to me, ‘I’d love to be a fly in the wall when he shows us photographs to his friends in America and hopefully someone tells him who I am.”
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