But she would never do that at a state banquet, obviously.” She’d always sit there and pick at the food with her elbows on the table. I think it’s her way of making her guests feel relaxed. ![]() “You’ve always had that etiquette rule, ‘elbows off the table’, but if it’s good enough for the Queen, then it’s good enough for all of us. The Queen walks in, she has a pheasant in one hand and a gun in the other, she puts them in the corner, puts the dogs in this pen and I’ve made her a gin and dubonnet - it’s one part gin, two parts dubonnet and an ice and a slice, she’d always have one of those at five o’clock - and what I found interesting is that she sat with her elbows on the table as she was eating. “Me and my colleague footmen - there’s always this unwritten rule that you’re allowed to have a drink on duty as long as you don’t take it too far - we’d had a couple of beers waiting for them and the sniffer dogs finally arrive about 4pm and it’s getting dark. Two o’clock arrives, three o’clock arrives, no Queen. Once we thought the Queen had gone back to the house for lunch because it was ready for one o’clock, but there was no Queen. At Sandringham we’d do the shooting lunches in a very large log cabin, so we’d have to get the fire going, lay the food out, put the bar up and make sure everything was perfect. Speaking exclusively to Slingo, Stephen Kaye said: “So we used to go out and do shooting lunches. The Queen once went missing during a shooting lunch a former royal footman has revealed. It was quite funny, I think she used to do it deliberately.” But, sometimes she’d change her mind and turn back to have another conversation and everyone is bowing and then having to wait to bow again. All the members of the Royal household would be waiting around for the Queen as she stood chatting about the experience she’s just had and as she turns away to go up into the palace, everyone then bows and curtsies. “One funny thing was that if the Queen went out on a visit, when she got back, she’d get out of the car and one of our jobs as footmen was to take the blanket off of her legs and roll it up and put it in the garden entrance. Myself and the other footmen all looked at each other like did he actually just say that? It was really quite funny. “The Duke had this grinder in his hands and was grinding this cheese, he was sitting at one end of the table and the Queen at the other and he shouted over to the Queen, ‘Lilibet, smell your fingers.’ She just looked over at him and cried ‘Oh Philip’. ![]() It was horrendous, you could smell it as soon as you walked into the room. The head chef had checked it was all OK to eat and it went on the table, but it was the smelliest cheese - I don’t think I’ve ever smelt anything like it in my life. Most of the gifts like that get sent away to either hospitals or children’s homes and so on, but she chose to keep this particular cheese. There was one time when somebody had given the Queen a cheese as a gift at Sandringham. Recalling an anecdote which showed off her fun side, Stephen Kaye told Slingo: “She does have a great sense of humour and she’d show it, especially when she and the Duke were together. ![]() The Queen has a great sense of humour, a former royal footman has claimed. "And the project responsible for this elevation? The podcast that represents the starting gun being fired on Brand Sussex launching itself full-tilt into the American entertainment market?" ![]() "In ditching her title, here we have Meghan's ascension (at her behest or Spotify's marketing team, I wonder?) to mononym status, an ostensible thrusting of herself to the highest celebrity plane like Oprah or Beyonce. "The message we are meant to take away is that this is Meghan. In the podcast, Meghan refers to herself using just her first name, and not her royal title, the Duchess of Sussex.Ĭriticising Meghan for this, Daniela Elser said: "Most notably, absent from all the media shots was the royal title she picked up on her wedding day back in 2018. The first episode of Archetypes, which explores the labels that hold women back, was released yesterday on Spotify. Meghan Markle has received backlash following the release of her new podcast, with one commentator claiming she has ditched her title to "thrust herself to the highest celebrity plane".
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