Back at her granddaughter Princess Eugenie’s 2018 royal wedding to Jack Brooksbank, the Queen reportedly shared a cheeky joke about hosting the reception at Windsor Castle.
Model Pixie Geldof, who is a longtime friend of Princess Eugenie and attended her wedding with husband George Barnett, recounted the moment to fashion designer Henry Holland on his podcast, What Were You Thinking?
“I didn’t meet her but she was walking around saying stuff like, ‘Well, it’s great that I have a house big enough to hold all these guests’,” Pixie said.
“She’s full LOL. She was being funny. She was like, ‘Welcome to my home’.”
The daughter of Bob Geldof and the late Paula Yates also confessed she fell over at the royal nuptials and when pressed if she “fully stacked it” revealed: “No, no like stacked it, but not onto the floor. Like stood completely still, stacked it. And, not drunk. Hadn’t drunk.”
This isn’t the first time the Queen has showed off her funny and playful side.
Her former protection officer, Richard Griffin, shared an anecdote of a time when a group of American tourists approached her when she was walking around Balmoral Castle and asked if she’d ever met the Queen. Ever the comedian, the monarch replied that she hadn’t, but then pointed to Richard and said, “But he has.”
On another occasion during a visit to New Zealand in 1986, protesters threw eggs at the Queen but she laughed it off at a banquet dinner a few days later.
“I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.,” she quipped.
The last wedding the Queen attended was that of her granddaughter and Princess Eugenie’s sister, Princess Beatrice.
Not only did the royal bride wear a vintage Norman Hartnell gown worn by her grandmother to the London premiere of Lawrence of Arabia in 1962, but she also wore the very same tiara that the Queen wore on her own wedding day – the exquisite diamond Queen Mary Fringe Tiara.
“Allowing Beatrice to wear this piece is tangible proof of the high esteem she holds both Bea and her younger sister Eugenie in,” a source revealed.
“They have been regularly visiting the Queen since they were small girls, and would often go to Windsor to take tea with her, which is among one of Her Majesty’s fondest memories. Mark my word, she wouldn’t give that tiara or one of her own dresses to just any family member. Princess Beatrice earned this.”
Due to the coronavirus, restrictions meant that Beatrice and her husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi could only have 20 guests in attendance on their big day.
The bride’s royal grandparents were two such guests and posed for an official photograph outside the church shortly after the ceremony.
“Congratulations to HRH Princess Beatrice and Mr Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi! The couple were married in a small private ceremony at the Royal Chapel of All Saints at Royal Lodge, Windsor on Friday 17th July,” the Royal Family’s official social media pages wrote alongside the photo.