The author concluded that the Queen had a dual identity, often asking advisers 'What should the Queen do?' rather than 'What should I do?' according to Daily Mail - Home. Singling the Queen out for personal praise made her uncomfortable, the reports said.
The Queen had a good sense of humor, though often contained in public. She would tell people to answer their mobile phone if it went off, saying it might be someone important, the source reported. On one occasion, a woman called out 'Yoo-hoo! Do you work here?' to the Queen while she was riding, and the Queen replied 'Yes, I do.' Two American hikers failed to recognize the Queen while she was walking in the Scottish hills with her protection officer. When asked where she lived, the Queen said she lived in London but had a holiday home across the hills. When a hiker said she must have met the Queen, she pointed at her detective and said she hadn't, but he meets her regularly. The hiker asked the detective what the Queen was like, and he said she could be cantankerous but had a lovely sense of humor. After the hikers left, the Queen told her detective she would love to be a fly on the wall when the hiker shows the photos in America and someone tells him who she is, according to Daily Mail - Home.
The Queen had a very English sense of humor: dry, occasionally ironic. After a Garter procession in pouring rain, she remarked on the smell of steaming wet velvet in St George's Chapel, comparing it to the saddling enclosure after a big race. On her heir's penchant for organic food, she remarked she did not want her food eaten by several worms first. During her Silver Jubilee, the Queen threw a fancy-dress party for her staff and was amused that many intended to come as her. On the night of the party, she said she was having a lovely time, having cast off her glass, according to Daily Mail - Home.
At her 80th birthday service, the Dean preached a sermon about how she had turned the other cheek when attacked. At the reception, the Queen remarked it was like being at one's own funeral, according to Daily Mail - Home.