The Queen cracks jokes and addresses mortality with Sir David Attenborough
In a new TV show with Sir David Attenborough, Queen Elizabeth II is heard cracking jokes and addressing her own mortality.
The Queen, who celebrates her 92nd birthday on April 21, took a stroll around her gardens with the wildlife expert in The Queen’s Green Planet, which will air next week in the UK.
The pair walked around the gardens of Buckingham Palace to bring attention to the monarch’s project to create a Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy of forests in all 53 Commonwealth states.
The rare interview shows the Queen laughing about a sapling not looking very healthy.
“That one we won’t look at. Somebody sat on it, I think at a garden party,” she said.
She also joked about efforts to “stop children playing conkers” because of “health and safety”.
Sir David replied, “You would think that, that people would stop people breathing.”
“Well, it seems to me quite a harmless sort of battle thing,” she said.
During their tour of the garden, their conversation was interrupted by a helicopter buzzing overhead.
The Queen asked, “Why do they always go round and round when you want to talk?”
“Sounds like President Trump ... or President Obama.”
As they continued their walk, Sir David pointed out a sundial that was positioned in the shade.
The Queen, who appeared surprised at the oversight, said, “Had we thought of that? That it was planted in the shade, it wasn’t in the shade originally, I’m sure? Maybe we could move it?”
The Queen also touched on her own mortality after Sir David said there could be “all kinds of different trees” growing in the palace gardens in another 50 years.
“It might easily be, yes.” she said. “I won’t be here though.”
During the interview, the Queen also revealed how she eats honey from the hives of her own bees, decorates her own Christmas tree and is quite difficult to give presents to.
The show will air on UK ITV at 9 pm on Monday, April 16.