During her long life, Queen Elizabeth was the walking definition of stoic—but behind closed doors, away from royal duty, Her late Majesty is said to have had a rollicking sense of humor and to have been quite mischievous. Case in point? Samantha Cohen, who Tatler called a “much beloved aide” of the late Queen’s who worked for her for 18 years, revealed that the Queen “loved it when things went wrong” at royal engagements because it “spiced her life up.”
