MPs have heard about Queen Elizabeth II's brilliant response when she was out shopping - and was told she looked just like the Queen.
Conservative MP James Wild recounted the story during a near-11-hour session in the House of Commons held on Friday. The MP for North West Norfolk was speaking in the Commons as MPs paid tribute to the late monarch.
He regaled fellow MPs with a story about a day the Queen was out shopping in Norfolk. He said: “The people living in the villages around the Sandringham Estate have great affection for the Queen.
"She was a very special part of those close-knit communities. They have happy memories of encounters with the Queen, because as well as the private time she spent there, she chose to undertake many visits over the years.”
He added: “She was a constant and cherished part of life in west Norfolk. And perhaps surprisingly she was even able to go about her life there without fuss.
"Indeed famously when out shopping one day a woman remarked to her: ‘you look just like the Queen’. To which the Queen is said to have replied: ‘how reassuring’. Presumably with a twinkle in her eye.”
Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle said 182 MPs had paid tribute to the Queen in the near-11-hour session held on Friday. Conservative MP Louie French (Old Bexley and Sidcup) was the final backbencher to speak on day one, with the second day of tributes in the Commons scheduled to begin at 1pm on Saturday.
Sir Lindsay said: “This is when the House is at its best, when it is united in grief that brings us together with so many stories and memories that’s been paid in such moving tributes. Can I say we’ve had 182 contributions and tributes today.”
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