Former Labour Well being Secretary Alan Johnson has confessed to unwittingly consuming canine biscuits meant for the Queen’s corgis.
The ex-Cupboard minister mentioned the accident occurred the day after the decision of the inquest into the dying of Diana, Princess of Wales.
Mr Johnson mentioned he was clueless to the very fact he was munching on the pet food in the course of the lunch with Her Majesty till he left with the then Welsh Secretary, Paul Murphy.
The revelation got here in a brand new e-book known as “The Queen of Our Instances" by Robert Hardman, the place the amusing trade that adopted between the 2 Cupboard ministers was described.
It reads: “We have been ready for our vehicles and Paul mentioned, ‘What an exquisite meal’. I mentioned, ‘I cherished it. I cherished each minute of it.’
“As they mentioned the meals, Johnson talked about that he had notably loved the cheese and the bizarre darkish biscuits. Paul mentioned, ‘No, the darkish biscuits have been for the corgis!’
“At that time – to Alan Johnson’s everlasting amusement – it all of the sudden dawned on him that he had been munching away on canine snacks. ‘I don’t suppose I’d had cheese with a Bonio biscuit earlier than’.”
In keeping with the biography, each ministers have been invited to lunch by Her Majesty after having attended a privy council assembly.
They’d made a plan to keep away from any dialog about Diana, however the Queen introduced up in what Mr Johnson described in “probably the most frank method".
Mr Johnson continues within the e-book: “At lunch, we had a whale of a time. She was good firm. It was as for those who’d recognized her for years. Clearly, there have been the caveats that you just understood – you don’t put your arm on her shoulder and say, ‘Let me let you know ... ’ and so forth.”
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