Queen Elizabeth “was only afraid”

Queen Elizabeth had only real fear, said a royal biographer – and as a monarch, she had to interface with her fear all the time.

Speaking on The Daily MailThe queens of the podcast, the kings and the ignoble things (and via Marie Claire)), According to the royal author veteran Robert Hardman, the late Queen “was afraid only one thing, and it was helicopters”.

“She could endure everything else,” added Hardman. “She had crossed war, she had crossed the sky knows what, but she always had something about helicopters.”

Fear, Marie Claire Reported, SOLED – at least in part – of a member of his staff who died in a helicopter accident in the 1960s. Hardman said that the accident “had left a very deep impression on the queen” and that following, she refused to get into helicopters. That said, she did Go up in them later under her reign – “Sometimes it was necessary because of her schedule or where she was traveling”, Marie Claire reported.

Not too long after the 1960s accident, the Queen went to Northern Ireland in 1977 and had to find herself face to face with her fear. The historic visit occurred during the “height of the problems” in Northern Ireland, and due to security problems, his team suggested that the safest way to travel was via the helicopter. Hardman declared on the podcast that his deceased Majesty had been “other choice” than to take a helicopter during the visit.

“Even at the end of her life, she was very reluctant to use helicopters in bad weather and night and in particular during the winter,” continued Hardman, adding: “It is somewhat ironic that many of his children and grandchildren – do not end up stealing helicopters at various points.

The queen particularly blocked heads with William, a trained helicopter pilot, who frequently piloted her young family in helicopters – including, of course, the eldest son Prince George, heir to the throne.

Royal biographer Robert Jobson wrote (via The Daily Mail) that the queen “had acute words” with William for having challenged “her wishes”: “She had warned him to fly with George in the event of an accident, telling her grandson (William) that he had to be aware of the succession,” wrote Jobson.

The queen apparently had several conversations with William on this subject, with a revealing source The sun“His Majesty said to close friends and courtiers that she would like William would stop piloting, especially in bad weather, because helicopters are not the safest means of transport. This keeps the queen awake at night, and she is naturally very worried.”

It is even more admirable that Queen Elizabeth faced her fear of helicopters to imitate the jump from the London 2012 Olympic Games and her memorable sketch with Daniel Craig (alias James Bond).

“We wrote this idea of ​​James Bond and we sent it to (Buckingham Palace),” said director Danny Boyle The Daily Mail. “We really asked, so that they accept that it would not embarrass them and we would get a double – a good double. We thought that Helen Mirren. They came back and said:” We are delighted for you to do so, and his Majesty would like to be herself. She would like to play herself. “”

On filming day, Boyle shared that the queen had been to the dentist all day and was therefore “no good humor”: “It immediately put me in my place,” he said.

As for why the queen agreed to make the song, the royal biographer Tina Brown wrote in her book Palace papers That “she thought it would be a big joke to amuse her grandchildren”, adding, “her only real concern was to keep the secret until she came out in person after the” jump “to take her place with Philippe in the royal box.”

The middle of the distance of the distance, Sebastian Coe, watched the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games alongside Prince Charles, with Prince William and Prince Harry seated in the row behind them, by The Daily Mail. “None of them knew the Queen’s involvement, nor that the film even existed,” Coe told Brown. “So when the sequence started, with the hugs that rose what was obviously very familiar stairs, Prince Charles looked at me and started to laugh rather nervously, wondering where it was on earth.”

“And when the film cut the royal back plan, it had exactly the same reaction as everyone, which was to suppose that it was the lady who imitations,” continued Coe. “But when she turned around and everyone realized:” My God! ” It’s really the queen! He started to roar with laughter. »»

As for William and Harry, “they were out of them,” he continued. “As she started her descent, two voices shouted in unison behind me,” Go Granny! ” For me, it was the most beautiful thing.

Who said you couldn’t look like fear in the eyes sometimes?