Britain’s 95-year-old Queen Elizabeth, who has reigned over her nation for nearly seven a long time, says she feels too younger at coronary heart to be awarded the title “Oldie of the Yr”, an aide has revealed.
Organisers of the annual tongue-in-cheek awards – whose earlier recipients embrace Oscar-winning actors, Nobel laureates, and the queen’s personal mom who died aged 101 in 2002 – had approached the monarch to see if she would contemplate accepting the honour herself.
However broadcaster Gyles Brandreth, the chairman of the awards run by the Oldie Journal, stated that they had acquired a “beautiful letter” sending her warmest finest needs however declining the supply.
“Her Majesty believes you might be as previous as you are feeling, as such the Queen doesn’t imagine she meets the related standards to have the ability to settle for and hopes you discover a extra worthy recipient,” stated the letter from Tom Laing-Baker, the monarch’s assistant personal secretary.
Elizabeth follows within the footsteps of her late husband Prince Philip, who died in April aged 99. A decade in the past he turned down the prospect of successful the award, which has been working for 29 years to rejoice the contributions to public life from the older technology.
“There’s nothing prefer it for morale to be reminded that the years are passing – ever extra rapidly – and that bits are starting to drop off the traditional body,” Philip stated in accordance with Brandreth. “However it’s good to be remembered in any respect.”
This 12 months’s ceremony nonetheless had a royal seal of approval although, as Camilla, the spouse of Elizabeth’s son and inheritor Prince Charles, was there to current the awards.
“Lengthy dwell The Queen! Maybe sooner or later we are going to sound out Her Majesty as soon as extra,” Brandreth wrote on the journal’s web site.
(Reuters)