It’s neatly documented that Queen Elizabeth II loved doing the showering up at Balmoral. Former royal press secretary Dickie Arbiter spoke about it at the first season of our podcast, and biographer Gyles Brandreth revisited the tale in Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait. He wrote that the Queen discovered the chore “healing.” In episode 1 of season 5 of A Proper Royal Podcast, writer Valentine Low provides a brand new twist. In his ebook Energy and the Palace, he unearths what truly took place as soon as the past due monarch put down her rubber gloves.
Chatting with hosts Andrea Caamano and HELLO!’s royal editor Emily Nash, Low defined how he exposed the tale. “The supply of this was once Alex Allen, who was once the High Minister’s personal secretary underneath John Primary,” he says.
“The High Minister is going there annually for a weekend in September, the non-public secretary is going with him, and there may be steadily a barbeque. Within the outdated days, Prince Philip and Prince Andrew would cook dinner the sausages at the barbeque and all that form of stuff.
“And famously afterwards, the Queen would do the showering up and, you realize, other folks would jump as much as assist and they would learn that she enjoys doing it. So Alex Allen leapt as much as assist and was once simply informed ‘no no no, the Queen enjoys doing it.'”
He then printed: “However then this lady-in-waiting mentioned to him, ‘however do not be concerned, after they get again to Balmoral, all of it is going within the dishwasher anyway.'”
Val is going on to show within the episode, which you’ll be able to pay attention to under, whether or not the past due Queen knew of the destiny of her washed dishes.
Somewhere else within the episode, the previous The Occasions royal correspondent unearths how he came upon that the past due Queen was once a “Remainer” in addition to her favorite High Minister over the years, and her least favorite.
Val additionally opens up about finding out of the surprising information that Queen Camilla fought off an tried sexual attack when she was once a teen and what the Palace fabricated from his discovery when he went to them with it.
