An American vacationer as soon as requested Elizabeth: Have you ever ever met the queen? A favourite story about the queen’s depraved humorousness entails the time she occurred upon an American vacationer mountain climbing close to her Balmoral property within the Scottish highlands. He clearly didn’t acknowledge her, asking: Had she ever met the queen? “I haven’t,” the queen responded. Then she pointed at her safety officer, Richard Griffin, and stated he “meets her repeatedly.”

The hiker requested Griffin what the queen was like — “Oh, she could be very cantankerous at occasions, however she’s bought a beautiful humorousness,” he replied — after which requested for a photograph with the bodyguard, handing the queen a digicam. (She fortunately obliged.)

It was simply one in every of many occasions the queen confirmed her wit. The queen might dish out quips and one-liners, London correspondent Karla Adam writes, and even appeared in a comedy skit with Britain’s beloved Paddington Bear for her Platinum Jubilee celebration this yr. Paddington tweeted this week upon her demise: “Thanks Ma’am, for every thing.