True Royalty is paying tribute to Queen Elizabeth II with a new programme on their streaming service.
Recollections – Memories of Her Majesty is now streaming and available to all. Unlike most programmes on True Royalty, this tribute piece is not behind a paywall and can be viewed by those with and without a subscription.
The show contains personal memories and stories from those who worked for the late Queen, including former press secretary Dickie Arbiter, media personalities, historians and authors.
One memorable recollection in the documentary from Arbiter speaks of his time at Balmoral with Her Late Majesty. He says: “When I arrived at Buckingham Palace, my boss said to me, ‘You’ve been invited to Balmoral for a dine and sleep to meet the Queen’. There were only four of us at this lunch: The Queen, her lady-in-waiting, Prince Philip and myself. It lasted about 45 minutes, with china plates, silver cutlery and Tupperware that we helped ourselves from.
“And at the end of it, the Queen said, ‘We’ve got to clear up,’ and I took it as my cue as the junior flunky to do the washing up. So I went into the kitchen and started washing up. I heard this footfall behind me and assumed it was the lady-in-waiting coming to give me a hand. I said over my shoulder without even turning, ‘Okay, I’ll wash you dry.’ This very familiar voice behind me said, ‘No, I’ll wash you dry!’ It was the Queen. So she plunged her hands into the fairy liquid – no gloves – and I did the drying up. It was quite an experience to actually do a bit of domesticity with a head of state.”
Hugo Vickers, a historian, said Her Late Majesty should be known as “Elizabeth the Steadfast.”
He said on the programme: “I always think she should be called ‘Elizabeth the Steadfast’ because she had this uncanny resolve as to what it was to be our Queen. But there’s another name you could give her: ‘Elizabeth the Conciliator’. Because if you listen to her speeches, she’s always talking about how you can’t change the history of the past and that we must build bridges to the future.”
Many more tributes and personal stories are available on Recollections – Memories of Her Majesty.
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