Queen Elizabeth was known for her compassion, humor and sense of duty, and although she kept most of her opinions to herself, every so often, she let her “displeasure” show. In his new book Elizabeth II: In Private. In Public. Her Story, royal biographer Robert Hardman shared how the late Queen let people know she wasn’t happy—and the move would definitely have been approved by her friend Paddington Bear.
Noting how “pragmatism” and “kindness” were some of her greatest traits, Hardman added that the late monarch lost her temper sometimes, too. “Outright fury was rare and only vented in-house,” he wrote. “No less dreaded was a silent signal of displeasure towards those who crossed an invisible line, one usually involving overfamiliarity, culpable incompetence or plain rudeness.”
