When the Queen was mishappiest..at her

HM 'used to love it if an event went wrong'

- RUSSELL MYERS

QUEEN Elizabeth II loved palace mishaps because it "spiced her life up", one of her closest aides has revealed.

Samantha Cohen, who worked for 17 years as press secretary and then assistant private secretary to the late monarch, said: "The Queen had no ego, she was so comfortable in herself, yet she loved it when things went wrong.

"If a cake was not cutting or a plaque didn't unveil, because everything was so perfectly organised it spiced her life up when things went wrong"

One example came in 2003 when Elizabeth was photographed giggling after escaping from a swarm of bees before an inspection of the Grenadier Guards that included Prince Philip at Windsor Castle.