Queen Elizabeth may have the weight of the monarchy on her shoulders, but it hasn't crushed her sense of humor, Prince Andrew said.
At a family dinner once, a footman pulled the queen's chair out from the table as she stood to go, but she tried to sit back down — with no chair under her, her son told Time magazine for its issue on newsstands Monday.
"Everyone, including the queen, laughed and laughed — and of course she reassured the terrified footman he had done nothing wrong," the prince said as his mother's 80th birthday approaches April 21.
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"She is incredibly fit," Andrew, 46, told Time. "But we remind staff that she's not just the monarch, but our mother. There's no need to do six engagements in a day."