David Cameron recalls having to apologise to Queen Elizabeth II

We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info

David Cameron was scolded by Queen Elizabeth II during a visit to Balmoral because he attempted to do the washing-up, the former Prime Minister has revealed. Previous Prime Ministers have visited the Royal Family’s Scottish residence for a number of years but not everyone has been fond of the estate.

Lord Salisbury and Margaret Thatcher were among the most critical, with the former referring to Balmoral as “Siberia” and the latter comparing it to purgatory.

In contrast, Mr Cameron recalled the “bliss” of walking the Aberdeenshire hills without his close protection team.

Mr Cameron, who resided in Number 10 from 2010 to 2016 before resigning after losing the Brexit referendum, has since spoken about his visits to Balmoral in more detail.

Speaking in a nine-minute clip ahead of Tory Party conference, Britain’s 53rd Prime Minister said: “It was an extraordinary treat to be able to go to Balmoral every year for six years, and one of the best parts was when in the evening you’d get into Her Majesty’s car, a Range Rover, and she would drive at breakneck speed up the hill and onto the moor.

JUST IN: King Charles to host South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa in November in first state visit

“And there at a sort of converted bothy, an old cottage on the hill, would be the Duke of Edinburgh with a barbeque he’d built himself, barbequing grouse for your dinner.”

Mr Cameron added: “I’m not making this up, you sat down and Prince Philip and Her Majesty the Queen served your dinner and cleared it away and washed it up while you sat talking with the other guests.

“I remember, I think it was sort of year five, I thought ‘Well, I now surely can help’ and got up and got on the Marigolds and started doing the washing-up.

“And I remember Her Majesty saying: ‘What on earth is the Prime Minister doing?’

“I’d broken with the protocol and rapidly sat back down and did what I was told.”

In another tribute, Theresa May said: “Her Majesty was so good at putting everybody at their ease.

“She was incredibly well informed, had immense experience, knowledge and wisdom.

“And it’s a moment in the week when you’re away from the hurly burly of politics, and you can actually sit down with somebody with experience and wisdom, knowledge and understanding and have that conversation about the issues of the day.”

DON’T MISS: 
Royal LIVE – Palace aides ‘plotting to block the Harry’s book’ [LIVE] 
Should Meghan and Harry cancel Netflix series, poll [VOTE] 
Prince Harry’s body language ‘showing anger’ during Queen’s funeral [REVEAL]

Boris Johnson, who succeeded Theresa May in 2019 as he vowed to get Brexit done, echoed his previous calls to refer to the late monarch as “Elizabeth the Great”.

He said: “I think there has been no other monarch in our history who has seen such a phenomenal increase in the prosperity, in the opportunity, in the longevity of the British people as she has in her reign and for that reason alone I think that she should be recorded as Elizabeth the Great.”

Source: Read Full Article