Who wouldn’t be annoyed?
Should you ever be so lucky to meet the Queen on one of Her Majesty’s famous walkabouts, do us a favor and put your phone down.
The Queen’s walkabouts these days number less and less, but in the years when she was still undertaking numerous walkabouts annually, Her Majesty was, according to, “starting to get fed up” with the amount of phones in her face, which she viewed as “a lack of respect.” The Queen: 70 Chapters in the Life of Elizabeth II
. “They were set up by her in the 1970s as a way of meeting people, but these days, people only want selfies and photographs of her. They just hold up their cameras or, even more alarming, their iPads, so she is faced with a wall of that when she looks at the crowd. It’s horrible.”that Prince William and Kate Middleton are embracing the selfie—generally a no-no as far as royal protocol goes—but Her Majesty is of a different generation and prefers a face-to-face conversation.
“Princess Anne once said that, because of their phones, people now only actually believe they have seen something if they can photograph it, so they lose the immediacy, their memory,” Lloyd says. “Also, there is a lack of respect in this. When the walkabout started 40 or 50 years ago, people would have never dreamed of sticking up a camera in the Queen’s face.”
And now it happens all the time to royals. Granted, this certainly isn’t the reason Her Majesty hasn’t been seen on walkabouts much lately—the pandemic and her episodic mobility problems are the reasons behind that—but, seeing as weseen the Queen out in public a couple of times this month there might be a chance yet for you to interact with the Queen in person. And if you do, enjoy the moment, and please, put the phone down.
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