The Queen showed this 10\u002Dyear\u002Dold that great people are often good and kind people, too.
The Queen served through turmoil and turbulence, through jubilant moments of celebration, and moments of terrible mourning. She was a person of duty, decorum and diplomacy but she was also a human being: a wife, a sister, a daughter, a mother, a grandmother and a great-grandmother.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
It was a bit of a shock to my father, then the leader of Her Majesty’s Official Opposition, when I plopped down on his lap — droopy tights and beret at an unnaturally jaunty angle — moments before the Queen arrived, but he acted like this was totally normal, and Prime Minister Trudeau was gracious in introducing me to Her Majesty just as if I belonged. I curtsied, though perhaps not gracefully.
I was 10 years old and attending a cocktail reception with my mother and my father, who was then Secretary of State for External Affairs. When Her Majesty entered the room, she asked why I wasn’t in school, and I explained that my teachers thought that being in the presence of royalty was a decent excuse to miss classes. She laughed, asked a bit more about my activities, then began to make the rounds.
So, I sat down in the chair closest to the door, waiting impatiently when suddenly a voice said to me: “What are you still doing here?” It was the Queen. I stood up and said: “Well, I can’t leave until YOU leave, so I’m just waiting for you to leave.”
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