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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Rebecca Russell & Lottie Gibbons

Builder unknowingly told Queen he wanted a 'proper cup of tea' and 'not the nonsense he had last time'

A builder unknowingly told the Queen he wanted a 'proper cup of tea' and 'none of that nonsense' he had last time.

Ahead of the Platinum Jubilee, Royal Upholsterer Kevin Andrews, who worked for the late Queen Mother, recalled the time a builder instructed Her Majesty to make him a cup of 'builder's tea in a mug with two sugars'.

He said: “[A] builder was dismantling a desk [...] so he could not see who was making the offer when the lady's voice asked him if he would like a cup of tea."

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