Watch: Clueless vacationers met the Queen, requested her to take their picture | World News

Condolences poured in from throughout the globe after Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-serving monarch of the UK, handed away on Thursday on the age of 96.

A clip of the Queen's former royal safety officer, Richard Griffin, revealing the humorous aspect of the monarch went viral as we speak on Twitter. The video credited to Sky News is from the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations in June this yr.

Within the video, Griffin reminisces the time he accompanied Queen Elizabeth II on a picnic in Scotland the place they bumped into the American vacationers.

"The Queen would all the time cease and say hi there... it was clear from the second we first stopped they hadn't recognised (her)," he informed Sky News.

The vacationers informed the Queen the place they're coming from and the place they're headed. Unwittingly, they requested the Queen the place she lives.

The Queen replied, "I stay in London, however I've bought a vacation residence simply the opposite aspect of the hills'," Griffin recalled.

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The vacationers then requested the monarch whether or not she has met the Queen.

"Effectively, I have never, however Dickie right here meets her repeatedly," she shortly replied, referring to Griffin.

"The amazed vacationers then turned in the direction of me," Griffin stated and requested, "what's she like?"

“I informed them she could be very cantankerous at occasions, however she's bought a beautiful sense of humour.”

Nonetheless unaware that they have been standing with the Queen of Britain, the vacationers requested the monarch to take a photograph of them with Griffin.

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The Queen obliged, Griffin stated.

After the possibility assembly, the Queen laughed and informed Griffin, “I would like to be a fly on the wall when he reveals these pictures to pals in America.”

"Hopefully, somebody tells him who I'm," the monarch stated.