Royal events tend to undergo meticulous planning and execution, however, there have been plenty of occasions where mistakes have happened, with some almost going unnoticed.
In honour of Prince William and Kate‘s 13th wedding anniversary on Monday, we take a look back at one particular moment which almost went awry when the late Queen made her arrival. Watch the video below to see it unfold…
Upon her arrival, Queen Elizabeth II could be seen trying to tell her guardsman not to open her side of the car door in a blink-and-you-miss-it moment. The car had pulled up on the wrong side of the pavement at Westminster Abbey, leaving the Queen to slide over to the other side where Prince Philip had been sat.
Etiquette expert Alexandra Messervy noticed the faux pas immediately. “I spotted that the car conveying the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh pulled up in entirely the wrong way in Dean’s Yard at Westminster Abbey,” …