One of Queen Elizabeth’s former bodyguards recalled the time she epically trolled two clueless US tourists.
“It was two Americans on a walking holiday, and it was clear they hadn’t recognized her, which was fine,” protection officer Richard Griffin recounted. “The American man asked her if she lived in the area to which she replied that she did indeed have a house nearby.”“As quick as a flash, she said, ‘Well I haven’t, but Dick here meets her regularly,” Griffin fondly recalled of the epic misdirection. “So the guy asked me what she was like.
He continued, “And because I was with her a long time, I could pull her leg, so I said she could be very cantankerous at times, but she’s got a lovely sense of humor.” At that point, the tourist, still not putting two and two together, put his arm around Griffin’s shoulder and gave his camera to Elizabeth so she could take a photo of them. They then had the two switch places so he could snap a photo with what he likely presumed was a random octogenarian — perhaps to be polite.
Queen Elizabeth II sits and laughs with Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, during a ceremony to open the new Mersey Gateway Bridge on June 14, 2018 in the town of Widnes in Cheshire, England.“Anyway, we swapped places. I took a photo of them with the queen. We never let on and we waved goodbye,” Griffin explained. “Then her majesty said to me that she’d love to be a fly on the wall when he shows these photos to his American friends and hopefully someone tells him who I am.
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