She sat in on a Cabinet meeting – the first monarch to do so for over a century. She also enjoyed a good tease of some of her more earnest prime ministers.
At a G7 meeting of world leaders in 1991, Edward Heath, the pompous former prime minister, was filmed showing off about how brave he had been in going to Baghdad under Saddam Hussein.
The Queen exclaimed with a laugh, “But you’re expendable!”The Queen was not as keen on showbiz as her sister, Princess Margaret, who adored singing and was a friend of Peter Sellers and Noël Coward.
But still, there were moments when she got into the swing of things in the Swinging Sixties. In November 1963, the Queen first met the Beatles at the Royal Variety Performance.
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