It was a question out of the blue. “Have you ever flicked peas?” the Queen Mother asked her nervous new equerry. The grandmother of the nation was sitting at lunch in Clarence House and could see the young man needed putting at his ease. She pointed to the bowl of a crystal chandelier, dangling five feet above their heads. “When I was a girl I could have got three out of four into that. Go on, have a go!”
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