I do get bored but I never let on, the Queen admits

Admission: the Queen gave honest answer
Peter Allen12 April 2012

The Queen has admitted she gets bored at times with her lifestyle, but keeps her feelings to herself.

The honest admission at a Windsor Castle banquet was reportedly passed on by French president Nicolas Sarkozy, 55, who is said to have asked her: "Do you ever get bored?"

Apparently referring to the dozens of functions she attends every year, the Queen was said to have replied: "Yes, but I don't say so."

Mr Sarkozy's revelation, reported by this week's L'Express magazine, was said to have come at a function at the Elysée Palace in Paris last month. Recalling his state visit to Britain with wife Carla Bruni in 2008, Mr Sarkozy said the couple had been "a little tense". He sat next
to the Queen as one of 160 guests in St George's Hall.

"I was very thirsty, I took a glass," he said. "I thought it was water, but it was gin. You know I hadn't drunk anything in 40 years. It was when I asked the Queen if she ever got bored and she replied, Yes but I don't say so' that I realised I'd been drinking."

Neither Buckingham Palace nor the Elysée Palace would comment, saying it was a "private conversation".

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