Ian Smithson
speaker
851 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 10 May
Ian Smithson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They got the queen to take selfies of the couple with this guy.
And then he took one of the queen with them.
And her line was, I would just love to be a fly on the wall when they take them home and somebody recognises me in the photograph.
Well, she allegedly had a really cheeky sense of humour in private.
Yeah.
But I think she also...
We were going to wind this up, but you've wound me up again.
I think there's another side of Charles, and not to do with Charles as the person, but Charles as the institution, that he has been allowed to be much more public than his mother.
The Queen made herself a very- She was publicly out there, but she was a very private person.
You know, there was all these protocols around, even people, you know, she'd do the lineup and she'd go and shake hands and have a chat with people.
And there was always this protocol that you never spoke about what you talked about with the Queen, that she would never have an opinion about anything publicly.
Yeah.
Whereas Charles, for his entire life, has always been out in the public, having his opinion out there, for better or for worse.
Yeah.
And it's going to be interesting to see how that goes now that he's king as to whether he's still- Wait, I've got to shut up?
Yeah, yeah.
And the whole idea of you go and shake the hand of the queen or the king and anything you say will never become public.
One story I really like, you're talking about those odd stories about the queen and her sense of humour.
And I remember the centenary cricket test match between England and Australia celebrating 100 years since the first ever test match.
And this is in 1977.
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