The magazine “The Oldie”, dedicated to the elderly, wanted to award the “Oldie of the Year” award to Queen Elizabeth, 95 years old. The sovereign, however, through her assistants, politely but firmly refused the recognition. “His Majesty believes that you get old when you feel old,” explained his private secretary.
There Queen Elizabeth II, 95 years old last April of which almost 70 spent on the throne, has refused an award given to illustrious personalities of mature age.
And in a polite, yet direct way, she simply let it be known that she didn’t feel old.
The magazine reported “The Oldie”, a publication reserved for the world of the third age, which every year gives away the recognition “Oldie of the Year”. In Italian it sounds something like “Old Man of the Year”.
Queen Elizabeth: “You get old when you feel old”
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The management of the magazine had in recent months turned to the sovereign, through the court channels, to ask her respectfully if she was willing to accept the award.
The response was relayed on August 21 from the Scottish royal summer residence of Balmoral via a communication entrusted to his private secretary, Tom Laing-Baker. Elizabeth II he said that would not really be the case.
His Majesty believes that you get old when you feel old, it is written in the letter of Laing-Baker only recently made known.
Therefore, the queen “does not believe she meets the criteria” for receiving an award and hopes she will find “a more suitable recipient”.
The prize, therefore, was awarded to Leslie Caron, the Franco-American Hollywood star, 90 years old, 5 less than Elizabeth II.
Recently, during a public event in Wales, the queen was caught by a camera while making a criticism of world leaders who are not very present and not very concrete regarding the fight for the protection of the environment, a battle that unites all the Windsor.
“It is very irritating. I don’t even know which of them comes to COP… “.
The reference is to Cop26, summit ofUn linked to the climate, expected in early November a Glasgow.
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