Alan Shearer 'got stick' from his wife for carrying the Queen's umbrella

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The Queen's umbrella when he met the late monarch back in 2011.Speaking to the BBC a year later, the Premier League legend said he was worried The Queen might slip over in the wet Northumberland weather and that he planned to try and catch her if she did."I woke up in the morning and pulled the curtains back and thought, ‘Oh no, it's pouring with rain’," Shearer recalled. "With it being slightly damp underfoot, and also there were a few steps that we had to go up and go down, I'm thinking to myself, ‘please whatever happens, do not trip up a step today.’READ MORE: The Queen gave hilarious response when asked if she would watch England at World Cup“And I’m thinking, ‘what if she actually trips up, what do I do then?

Do I go and catch her?'"The former Newcastle, Blackburn and Southampton striker was asked to walk side-by-side with Her Majesty as they strolled through the town of Alnwick and was told he'd be holding the monarch's umbrella, though his chivalry got him into trouble when he got home."I got a little bit of stick from my wife," Shearer said. "I got home that evening and she had seen the pictures on TV and said to me, ‘if we went out for a walk there’s no way you’d carry my umbrella’.Is Alan Shearer the greatest striker in Premier League history?

Let us know what you reckon in the comments section below."I said, ‘well, you’re not exactly The Queen’."Shearer, who found the net 260 times in the Premier League, said he could hear Newcastle fans chanting his name as he and The Queen walked through the town and admitted he was concerned about accidentally stealing focus."I could hear little shouts of my name and I thought ‘Oh no, please don’t’," the Geordie former footballer remembered. "‘It’s great when you say it.