Ahead of The Queen’s funeral tomorrow, the Queen Consort, Camilla has shared a personal memory of the monarch who saw the funny side of a shoe mishap on Camilla’s wedding day.
Speaking in a televised tribute to the late Queen, Camilla also described the Queen’s “wonderful blue eyes” but also shared how her gaze could be a little withering if you “dare question” her equestrian knowledge.The Queen Consort, who had known the monarch for several decades, said the Queen had a clear demarcation between her public duties and private life and admitted that her summer breaks at Balmoral in Scotland were a moment for “her enjoyment”.
Her heartfelt tribute to her mother-in-law was aired on Sunday – the eve of the Queen’s state funeral – on the BBC, shortly before the national minute’s silence at 8pm.
Speaking about her wedding day on April 9 2005, Camilla said: “I remember coming from here, Clarence House, (to) go to Windsor the day I got married when I probably wasn’t firing on all cylinders, quite nervous and, for some unknown reason, I put on a pair of shoes and one had an inch heel and one had a two-inch heel. “So, I mean talk about hop-a-long and there’s nothing I could do.
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