“And what do you do for a living?
The day someone asked her this question at a garden party, Elizabeth II was left speechless.
She later admitted that she did not know what to answer.
For once.
Because the queen has always been known for her sense of repartee and her biting irony.
In private, the competition was fierce with her husband, Prince Philip, a funny and sometimes scathing man whose jokes she never wanted to sanction, even dubious ones.
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