Gyles Brandreth admits chatting up Queen Consort Camilla and smoking at school
Gyles Brandreth recalls smoking “woodbines” cigarettes with the Queen Consort during high school with Lorraine Kelly.
During Friday’s visit to the ITV studios, the beloved Scott welcomed viewers back to the show as she discussed the biggest news in the headlines.
Alongside a lovely interview with Paul O’Grady, the 62-year-old presenter welcomed the former MP onto the show to discuss his new book A History of Britain in Just A Minute.
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As he looked back on some of his fondest memories working on the BBC Radio 4 show – which launched back in the mid 1980s – Gyles recalled the bizarre moment he shared a cigarette with Queen Camilla as a teenager.
While he promoted the launch of his new book – which is inspired by his long-standing show – the former politician recalled a hilarious story with the royal during a taping of the show.
He told viewers at home: “The subject came up, My Secret Crush, and I suddenly found myself going back to my teenage years and talking about going to boarding school and near the boarding school was this big house.
“And I went to this big house because I was having tea there and then in the garden I found this rather attractive girl.
“I was 16 she was 17, she was wearing jodhpurs – I was conjuring up all this up in just a minute – smoking her wood vines in the shrubbery. This was actually a girl called Camilla Shand”.
The ITV star went on to joke that as much as he enjoyed making and producing the show, that he never expected the royal household to listen to the programme at home.
He went on: “Little did I think that she might be listening to the programme, it never occurred to me that then Duchess of Cornwall, now the Queen Consort, would be listening to Just A Minute.
“And about a week after this broadcast went out, she – the Duchess of Cornwall – was visiting our local church because it was part of the Queen’s Jubilee that year – and she saw my wife.
“And she said, ‘Tell Gyles, I don’t deny that I was smoking but they were not wood vines!’.”
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It comes after Gyles described the Queen as the "world's most respected leader" after the downfall of the British Empire.
He gave a moving speech following Queen Elizabeth II's passing where he provided the public with an insight into what she was really like behind the scenes during his coverage for the BBC.
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