Working for the Queen means maintaining absolute discretion. But her dresser, Angela Kelly, has a new memoir that proves she might let you share her best jokes.
when one of its former employees wrote a memoir that included reference to her time working with the Queen. The policy doesn’t apply to all royal employees, it seems, because her longtime dresserthis month, and it contains a few stories about monarch herself., Kelly tells a story about the time she asked the Queen for some elocution lessons.
Liverpool does have a fairly distinctive accent, sometimes called the Scouse. It has a slight Irish influence, and was probably most popularized in America by the Beatles. According to Kelly, however, the Queen was not convinced that there was anything wrong with her accent. After a bit of pressure, the monarch relented and gave her dresser one instruction. Kelly writes:
The Queen could probably sense that I wasn’t going to give up, so she instructed me to say one word: ‘furious’. ‘Fyer-ri-ous,’ I responded. ‘No, fee-or-ree-ous,’ said Her Majesty, in perfect received pronunciation. After several more attempts, I finally cracked it and Her Majesty exclaimed, ‘Yes!’ and her finger went up in the air, followed shortly by: ‘Not sick as a parrot.’ And that was it—my one and only elocution lesson, and from the Queen herself.
So while many accounts of conversations with the Queen reveal her dry sense of humor, they also make her seem a little, well, scary. Last week,
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