{"id":339835,"date":"2026-09-07T11:08:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T11:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/339835\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T11:08:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T11:08:50","slug":"queen-elizabeths-unfortunate-mishap-as-shes-presented-with-flowers-caught-on-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/339835\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Elizabeth’s unfortunate mishap as she’s presented with flowers caught on camera"},"content":{"rendered":"

The late Queen spent 70 years on the throne<\/a>, during which time she carried out more than 21,000 public and official engagements. As such, there wasn’t a lot that would phase Her Majesty.<\/p>\n

But her composure did slip on one very rare occasion – and the cameras were there to capture the moment.<\/p>\n

The momentary mishap<\/a> took place back in 2010, when Elizabeth stepped out to mark the 150th anniversary of the Eton Combined Cadet Force at Eton College – coincidentally where her great grandson Prince George<\/a> will start this week.<\/p>\n

Dressed in a lilac skirt suit and matching hat, she was warmly greeted by excited crowds as she arrived for the occasion.<\/p>\n

The Queen<\/a> was certainly used to accepting bouquets of flowers on her public engagement – but on this occasion, she struggled to keep hold of a plastic-wrapped display offered to her by a well-wisher.<\/p>\n

It slipped out of Her Majesty’s hand and she promptly bent down to retrieve it, as an aide came to offer her assistance.<\/p>\n

\"The\u00a9 POOL\/AFP via Getty ImagesThe bouquet slipped out of the Queen’s hand and onto the floor<\/p>\n

The Queen moved past the moment with her usual good grace, and the rest of the visit went without a hitch.<\/p>\n

The monarch was known to have a fantastic sense of humor<\/a> behind closed doors – and on occasion that side of her was revealed to the public.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One of her best moments came when she was approached by two American tourists<\/a> while out walking in the hills around Balmoral. What happened next was revealed by her former royal protection officer Richard Griffin, who had accompanied her on the outing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Queen\u00a9 Getty ImagesAn aide was quick to offer assistance<\/p>\n

The hikers asked the queen where she lived, to which she said London, but added that she had a holiday home nearby and had been visiting the area for more than 80 years since she was a little girl.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Aware that Balmoral was in the vicinity, she was then asked if she had ever met the queen, Griffin said.<\/p>\n

“Quick as a flash, she said: ‘I haven’t, but Dick here meets her regularly’,” he later told Sky News.<\/p>\n

One of the hikers then asked Dick what the Queen was like in person.<\/p>\n

“Because I was with her a long time and I knew I could pull her leg, I said ‘Oh, she can be very cantankerous at times, but she’s got a lovely sense of humour’,” he said.<\/p>\n

\"Queen\u00a9 Getty ImagesThe late Queen had a brilliant sense of humour<\/p>\n

After hearing his response, the hiker requested the Queen to click a picture of him with Dick.<\/p>\n

“Before I could see what was happening, he gets his camera and gives it to the Queen and says, ‘Can you take a picture of us?'”<\/p>\n

Her Majesty obliged, and then Dick took the camera and also clicked a picture of her with the hikers.<\/p>\n

Later, the Queen told Dick: “I’d love to be a fly on the wall when he shows those photographs to friends in America and hopefully someone tells him who I am.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The late Queen spent 70 years on the throne, during which time she carried out more than 21,000…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[1432,9,24,63,122,124,123,1431,1245],"class_list":["post-339835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-british-royals","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-royalty","tag-the-queen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}