A beautiful collection celebrating the Queens humour, with amusing quotations and stories about royal life.

When thinking of the Queen, our first image is one of dignity and authority. She is the very definition of majesty: the British monarch, the Supreme Governor of the Church of England and the head of the Commonwealth. But as anyone who knows her will tell you, in person she has awicked sense of humour:

* Occasionallyunintentional (when meeting guitar legend Eric Clapton she enquired Have you been playing a long time?)

* Sometimescannily astute (I have to be seen to be believed)

* At timesdownright silly (nicely demonstrated when staff at Balmoral discovered the Queen jumping up and down with glee exclaiming Ive won, Ive won! after hearing that England had beaten Australia in the cricket)

? the Queenssense of humour is like no other.

Revealing a side of the Queens personality that the public rarely see, this joyous book is a timelycelebration of royal humouras Elizabeth II succeeds Victoria as Britains longest-serving monarch.