Queen Elizabeth ‘snubbed airport terminal opening after relative stopped from taking guns on plane’, royal cousin claims

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Queen Elizabeth snubbed airport terminal opening after relative stopped from taking guns on plane, royal cousin claims Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth

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00:00What was it like going on holiday with Elizabeth II?

00:04Well, it was wonderful.

00:06There was one story which I think I've told you before.

00:10And so we were flying from Bristol Airport,

00:12and we turned up at Bristol Airport, and I had my guns in tow.

00:17And we go and check in, and the sweet check-in lady sort of says,

00:20oh, you're going to Aberdeen?

00:21And I said, yes, I've got some guns.

00:22And she sort of looks and says, oh, dear, I'm totally sorry.

00:25You won't be able to take the guns on this flight.

00:27So she said, well, didn't you make a reservation for your guns?

00:31And I said, no, I've never made reservations for my guns.

00:34I've always just turned up.

00:35It's never been a problem.

00:36She said, well, not from Bristol you haven't, maybe from Heathrow.

00:39You'll just have to fly from Heathrow.

00:41So I said, no, I decided I was going to pull rank at this point.

00:44I said, well, I'm terribly sorry.

00:45I'm going to Balmoral for the weekend.

00:47I can't fly from Heathrow.

00:49The Queen's sending me a car, and she's expecting me for tea.

00:54Over to you.

00:55Anyways, that sort of focused her mind a bit.

01:00But she still wasn't letting me speak to the pilot.

01:04So she came up with a solution that we would leave them with the police in the police armory at Bristol Airport.

01:10So it was fine.

01:11So we got on the flight, and we turn up at Balmoral, ushered into the drawing room, and immediately go into tea.

01:18I'm sitting on the right-hand side of the Queen, and I'm kind of irritated by this story.

01:23So I repeat it to Her Majesty.

01:26And I could see that she was getting rather irritated as well.

01:28So she turns to her query.

01:31I think it was Simon at the time.

01:32And she said, Simon, I'd like Lord Ivor's guns to be up here tomorrow morning.

01:36Please see to it.

01:37Whereupon she turns back to me, and she looks at me over her glasses with a glint on her eye, and she says,

01:43They want me to open their new terminal.

01:47She says, I don't think I will now.

01:50And was the terminal ever opened, the new terminal?

01:53No.

01:53All right.

02:17Bye.

02:18Bye.

02:19Bye.

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