Neither the malicious intrusions in his palace, nor the threats to his security, nor family disputes would have made Queen Elizabeth II tremble. Her stoicism only weakened when she found herself in front of the object of all her fears: helicopters. The information was revealed at the bend of the podcast of Daily Mail, Queens, Kings, and Dastardly Things.
The queen liked to travel in the air aboard spacious planes. She embarked there comfortably, read the press, pampered her hugs if they were from the trip, drank her Martini, rested (only on her personal pillows) then elegantly landed as she had embarked, ready to fulfill her duties as sovereign. And yet, she could not imagine climbing a helicopter. “Elizabeth II was only afraid of one thing, it was the helicopters,” said Robert Hardmanend connoisseur of indiscretions. She could endure everything else: she had known war, she had known God knows what, but she always had something with the helicopters. “An apprehension that followed the queen throughout her reign:” Even at the end of her life, she was very reluctant to use them in bad weather and during the winter, “he revealed.
This apprehension was due, according to him, to the death of a member of his crew in the late 1960s. “She had been particularly upset by the death of the captain of one of her flights, a certain John Bluntwho is a parent of the singer James Blunt “, He said. But Elizabeth II had to be reason. In 1977, on the occasion of her silver jubilee, the sovereign was keen to visit all her United Kingdom subjects. However, to go to Northern Ireland, shaken by the North Irish conflict, it had to embark on a helicopter and this, for its safety. Her homeland passing before her fears, the queen ended up making her baptism of the air by helicopter.
Queen Elizabeth II took a helicopter for the first time in 1977.Anwar Hussein/Getty Images
“It is somewhat ironic that many of his children and grandchildren, including Prince Charles, Prince Andrew and Prince Harry, all ended up piloting helicopters at one time or another. She never loved them, ”said the specialist. Trained at the Royal Air Force, Prince William, also a seasoned pilot, had one day decided to share with him his wife Kate Middleton and their eldest son, Prince George. But there is one to whom the getaway has displeased. According to the Daily Mailthe sovereign would have had “hard words” with regard to her grandson, warning him about the consequences of a tragic accident on the future of the monarchy. And because her sharp humor was also stronger than her phobia, Queen Elizabeth II had (almost) jumped from a helicopter in the company of James Bond for the London Olympic Games in 2012.
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