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Queen Elizabeth II: Queen of British Humor - the funniest moments in royal life

2022-09-04T09:59:24.342Z


Queen Elizabeth II: Queen of British Humor - the funniest moments in royal life Created: 09/04/2022 11:53 am By: Annemarie Goebbel Often enough, the life of the British head of the crown is dignified and serious. The scenes that emerge thanks to Queen Elizabeth II's typical black humor are all the funnier. The monarch enchants and impresses many people in the long term. 1 / 12Queen Elizabeth m


Queen Elizabeth II: Queen of British Humor - the funniest moments in royal life

Created: 09/04/2022 11:53 am

By: Annemarie Goebbel

Often enough, the life of the British head of the crown is dignified and serious.

The scenes that emerge thanks to Queen Elizabeth II's typical black humor are all the funnier.

The monarch enchants and impresses many people in the long term.

1 / 12Queen Elizabeth made Prince Harry (then 21 years old) laugh at a military parade in 2006.Queen Elizabeth attended the Sovereign's Parade at Sandhurst Royal Military Academy to attend Prince Harry's farewell ceremony at which he was made an army officer.

The monarch beamed down the line of soldiers, knowing full well that the officers should have frozen in pure control.

Prince Harry couldn't help but smile. During his 10-year service in the British Army, Prince Harry served twice in Afghanistan and rose to the rank of Captain.

© Dylan Martinez/dpa

2 / 12Queen Elizabeth II joked about President George W. Bush (then 60 years old) in 2007 after he accidentally made her 200 years older in a speech. Bush commented on his faux pas at a welcoming ceremony in the White House with a wink: " She [the Queen] gave me a look that only a mother could give a child.” Two days later, over dinner at the British Ambassador's residence, came the royal tit-for-tat: “I was wondering if I could take that toast with me should begin with the words: 'When I was here in 1776 .

.

.'” said the Queen.

"Your Majesty, I cannot surpass that," the 43rd President of the USA then had to concede in his toast.

© Mark Wilson/dpa

3 / 12The then 90-year-old Queen Elizbeth II had a dark sense of humor at the brightly colored Chelsea Flower Show in 2016. At the world-famous flower show, herb gardener Jekka McVicar reportedly told Queen Elizabeth that lily of the valley was used as a popular poison in the past "I got two bouquets of these this week," the queen reportedly said to McVicar, according to hellomagazin.com.

"Maybe they want to see me dead." © Str/dpa

4 / 12Queen Elizabeth II has cut countless cakes.

At their anniversary cake, there was a portion of the finest royal humor as the icing on top. The cake was placed on the table so that the photographers present could read it before setting it up.

But for the monarch, seated behind the table, the text was upside down.

This did not remain uncommented by Elizabeth II.

She tossed the photographers: "You can see it well.

It's not bad for me, I'm not that important – I think I can read it upside down too.” © i Imago/Imago

5 / 12Queen Elizabeth II welcomes Justin Trudeau (l), Prime Minister of Canada, at the parade for the Queen's dinner at the Commonwealth Heads of State and Government Meeting at Buckingham Palace.At a gala at the 2015 Heads of Government Meeting, Trudeau congratulated the Queen on 60 years on the throne and noted in his speech that he was the twelfth prime minister of Canada to serve during her reign. In her acceptance speech, Elizabeth II echoed his words and began her speech by saying: "Thank you, Prime Minister of Canada, for making me feel so old."

© Matt Dunham/dpa

6 / 12British Daily Mail ran the headline: 'Something to celebrate ma'am?

The Queen (93 at the time) appears very lively during the rainy start to the Royal Windsor Horse Show.' The Queen was undeterred by the wet weather as she appeared on the first day of the Royal Windsor Horse Show.

Her great-grandson Archie (3) was born just two days earlier.

The pictures of the warmly wrapped up, laughing Queen in the pouring rain went around the world.

© Andrew Matthews/dpa

7 / 12Paddington Bear kept the 96-year-old company in the palace and joined her in singing the Queen song "We Will Rock You" - in proper style with a silver spoon and teacup. True to the motto "Two are better than one", the anniversary concert became a platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II and the band Queen opened.

The duo performed cute dialogue with a mostly humorous royal protagonist.

© Victoria Jones/dpa

8 / 12Queen Elizabeth II shines at the age of 86 as a Bond girl alongside Daniel Craig (then 44) at the opening ceremony in London in the Olympic fever 2012. With the funny clip that ends with Her Majesty parachuting over Wembley Stadium , generated YouTube record numbers and acting talent. The helicopter jump was actually performed by stuntman Gary Connery, but Queen Elizabeth "was very keen on the idea and immediately agreed," wrote royal dressmaker Angela Kelly in her memoir, The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen , the Dresser and the Wardrobe." She insisted on a speaking part: "Of course I have to say something.

After all, he's coming to save me," she said. Speaking on the BBC's The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show, Craig said,

that the Queen showed off her improvisational skills during their scenes together. "She said, 'Do you want me to pretend to write?'

And he said, 'Yeah, that's great, that's great'.

So she acted a bit.

It was all her own stuff.

It was amazing." © ZUMA Wire/Imago

9 / 12Two unsuspecting gentlemen and the grinning queenThe queen can't help but laugh in this hilarious scene.

At the gathering to mark the 70th anniversary of the Allied landings in Normandy, US President Barack Obama and another attendee escort the Queen down the stairs for a group photo British tradition goes to the dogs out of sheer helpfulness and politeness: the Queen may not be touched unless asked to do so.

© ITAR-TASS/Imago

10 / 12Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness (66, † 2017) welcomed Queen Elizabeth to Hillsborough Castle in Belfast in 2016. As he shakes her hand, he politely inquires about her well-being: 'Hello, are you alright?' 'Well Thank you very much,” was the Queen's unexpected answer: “Anyway, I'm still alive.” © Aaron Mccracken/Harrisons/Po/dpa

11 / 12Female elephant Donna shares enthusiasm for Queen Elizabeth II.During a visit to Whipsnade Zoo in London in 2017, the female elephant hugged the Queen in anticipation of a second banana.

The photographer later said that Donna's enthusiasm for the monarch had made the zoo keepers a little nervous.

© i-Images/Imago

12 / 12Queen Elizabeth got the laughs on her side at the G7 summit in Carbis Bay. At the G7 reception in Cornwall, the Queen made everyone smile with a joke.

While the then 95-year-old posed with the heads of state of the leading Western economic powers for a group photo that seemed a bit stiff due to the corona-related distance, the master of small talk asked the group: "Should one now pretend to be having fun?" Boris Johnson later confirmed: Even if it doesn't look like it, they actually had a lot of fun.

© i-Images/Imago

Windsor – Stiff state banquets, dignified speeches, cumbersome tokens of honour, cake cuttings, openings and tree plantings: Queen Elizabeth II knows it all well enough.

Nevertheless, she occasionally allows herself to lighten the mood on such occasions with a pinch of good British humor or surprises with performances that one simply would not trust the head of the monarchy to be capable of.

Source: merkur

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