She enjoyed a particularly close connection with Prince William and spent a lot of time with him.

Despite this instance of purported name-calling, the Queen Mother typically had other methods for dealing with family controversy.

It didn’t happen or the person didn’t exist," Vickers explained to The Sun.

The Queen Mother smiling

Jennie Bond, a former BBC royal correspondent, agrees with Vickers.

“She’d be unbending and unforgiving,” Bond told Ok!

Magazine (viaExpress).

Princes William and Harry, King Charles, and the Queen Mother posing

King George V was angry at this lack of decorum, perThe Guardian.

The palace wanted her to issue a retraction, but the Queen Mother declined.

“Her refusal to succumb to Palace pressure was a wise move on her part,” writes Campbell.

King George VI and Elizabeth Boewes-Lyon smiling after their engagement