10 Lesser Known Facts About Queen Elizabeth II

9. How Do You Get To Meet The Queen?

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FACUNDO ARRIZABALAGA/epa/Corbis

Your best chance is to be a world leader or someone really important. Having reigned for so long, Her Majesty has seen off a fair amount (twelve) of British Prime Ministers, all of which held weekly meetings with her since Winston Churchill in 1951. Today, David Cameron meets the Queen every Wednesday evening. Oh, to been a fly on the wall.

What is said is never revealed, but I wonder what she learnt from Churchill or what she really thought of Mrs. Thatcher or Tony Blair. We will never know; what is said remains private, no record is ever kept.

We will also never know what she thought of the presidents of The United States. She€™s met eleven of those, though she never met Lyndon B Johnson. Apart from meeting hundreds of world leaders, she has also mixed with pop stars, astronauts, sporting heroes, Nobel Prize winners, actors and every type of celebrity you can think of. She has outlasted six Archbishops of Canterbury and the same amount of Popes, although she only met one, Pope John Paul II, in 1982.

Probably the best chance we normal folk have of meeting the Queen is to be invited to one of her garden parties where up to 8000 guests, nominated by various organisations, are royally entertained.

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