Gordon Brown has admitted he might be left “embarrassed” throughout conferences with the Queen.

The previous prime minister revealed that Queen Elizabeth II was usually higher knowledgeable about present affairs than he was.

He recalled how the Queen questioned “why have these bankers acquired all of it improper” in 2008, when the monetary crash led to the UK coming into recession.

Brown, who was the Labour prime minister between 2007 and 2010, mentioned the Queen “truly knew higher about what was occurring to the nation” than he did throughout his time in No.10.

He instructed the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg present: “She would pay attention, she would ask questions. She could be endlessly educated about every part occurring within the Commonwealth.

“I used to be very embarrassed at some point as a result of I went in to see her at six o’clock, I didn’t know that one of many Commonwealth leaders had been ousted and a brand new authorities had been fashioned.

“She was telling me what was occurring once I was purported to report back to her.”

Whereas he had been within the Commons all afternoon the Queen could be conserving herself updated by watching tv and “getting notes from her secretaries”.

He added: “She truly knew higher about what was occurring to the nation than I used to be. It was fairly embarrassing.

“It simply confirmed how conscientious she was, how properly up on the element, I feel proper to the final.

“You can see that within the assembly she had with Liz Truss when she grew to become prime minister and Boris Johnson when he left, she may carry out the duties proper up till the tip.

“She listened and he or she requested questions. I bear in mind famously she requested ‘why have these bankers acquired all of it improper?’ in 2008.”

Nevertheless, he burdened that the Queen would “by no means impose her will” on the prime minister.

“That is the fashionable monarchy and I feel she set the tone for what King Charles and the opposite monarchs will do,” he mentioned.

Brown was among the many six residing former prime ministers who attended Saturday’s Accession Council assembly the place Charles III was formally declared as the brand new King.