When he was a child, Grant Harrold aspired to meet Queen Elizabeth.
At age 13, he saw the monarch dancing in a documentary.
“I thought, ‘How do you get to dance with the queen?'”
As a teen, Harrold decided he would become a butler.
Harrold was 26 and working for the royal family when he got to meet his idol Queen Elizabeth.
“You don’t realize how short she is that was the first thing,” he recalled.
At her tallest, the monarch was 5'4" (viaExpress).
However, over the years Elizabeth has becomesmaller than she used to be.
Besides her short stature, the royal butler discovered some unexpected attributes about the queen’s personality.
It wasn’t long before he also became acquainted with Elizabeth’s style of humor.
And you’d all look at each other like, ‘did the queen just make a joke?'"
“She’s wonderful at that and that is something that I absolutely loved.
Our queen has got a wicked sense of humor.”
Elizabeth’ssense of humor may seem surprisingat first, and the queen takes advantage of that unexpected element.
Magazine, Elizabeth’s dark wit was on display at the 2016 Chelsea Flower Show, too.
Perhaps they want me dead."
The queen has also made sport out of the times when she hasn’t been recognized.
When American visitors at Balmoral asked the monarch, “Have you ever met the queen?”
The queen also appreciates humor in others and loves hearing a joke.
“I could hear her guffawing.
The Duke of Edinburgh was known for his dry, sometimescontroversial sense of humor.
The former royal butler recalled the monarch’s precision on the dance floor.
“She’s a very good dancer.
She watches your feet, she makes sure you’re doing it right,” he toldMy London.
However, once he left his job, Harrold came up against a more steely aspect of the queen.
Without permission from Elizabeth or the Cabinet Office, Harrold could not use the word “royal.”
