Queen Elizabeth has hilarious reply to tourists who failed to recognise her

There’s a few people who don’t recognise the Queen, and some of them happened to talk to the monarch herself. Queen Elizabeth II has fooled tourists when they asked if she had ever met the UK ruler.

Her former protection officer, Richard Griffin, recounted how the Queen was able to go incognito in public and how she fooled a group of American tourists once while wearing a headscarf and tweeds. She was out walking near the Balmoral estate in Scotland when she encountered the Americans, Griffin told The Times.

“Do you live round here?” the tourists asked the unrecognisable Queen, who answered that she had a house nearby.

“Have you ever met the Queen?” they asked again.

“No,” the monarch apparently answered before pointing at Griffin. “But he has,” she joked.

According to Griffin, Her Majesty’s muted attire probably helped her hide her identity from people. The Queen normally wears colourful dress, coat and hat when she’s on official royal duty. But when she goes to Scotland, she lives a “low-key way of life” and dresses more simply.

Meanwhile, a former chef at Buckingham Palace has revealed the one ingredient the Queen has banned from the palace and what her favourite ingredient is. Chef John Higgins told the National Post that the royal family are missing out on meals cooked with garlic simply because the Queen has banned the ingredient from the kitchen.

“The Queen is a wonderful lady, the royal family are wonderful people but they’re missing out on garlic because at Buckingham Palace, you don’t cook with garlic,” Higgins said. “I suppose, in case you get the royal burp.”

And if there’s one thing that she loves to eat the most, it’s mango.

“The Queen really enjoyed mangoes,” he dished, “she could tell you how many mangoes were in the fridge at Buckingham Palace.”