Camilla recalls shoe mishap on her wedding day that left cheeky Queen giggling
18.09.2022 - 22:29
/ ok.co.uk
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. I was halfway down in the car before I realised and you know, she – she could see and laughed about it and said, ‘look I’m terribly sorry’ and she did, you know, she had a good sense of humour.” The late monarch was never happier than when visiting her thoroughbreds at the royal stud or watching them race and Camilla commented on her “passion for racing”.
Camilla also added: “She was able to escape to Sandringham. She had the stud next door.
She could go every day, see her foals, work out you know, the next meetings for the year. I think she always kept
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