Queen Elizabeth was once ‘pushed’ to the back of an elevator by a cleaning person: ‘F–king hell’

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who passed away in September 2022 at the age of 96, got the shove while dressed in full royal regalia — “crowns, gowns, everything” — according to Reverend Richard Coles, a British former pop star-turned-writer, radio host and priest.Coles, 62, is currently competing on the UK reality TV series, “I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!” The show recently posted a clip of the former Communards artist telling his fellow contestants the hilarious tale about Queen Elizabeth.“I heard a great story about the late Queen,” Coles said in the video. “It was a State Opening of Parliament, so she got all robed up and everything to go into the chamber.

But normally there’s a flight of stairs you have to go up to get there from the Robing Room, and she couldn’t manage that, so they thought they would put her in a lift.” “Lift” means elevator in British vernacular.“So there she was with Prince Philip, and they were all absolutely done up — crowns, gowns, everything.

And the Sergeant at Arms, whoever it was, took them into the lift, but he pressed the wrong button. Instead of going up to the Lords, it went down to [the] service sector,” Coles continued.“And the door opened and there was a woman, a cleaner there, with a trolley.

She didn’t look up, she just went, ‘Budge up!’ and walked in and pushed the Queen and Prince Philip to the back of the lift!