Later this month the Queen will celebrate her Platinum Jubilee, marking 70 years since she took the the throne.
During the seven decades of her reign, the Queen has met hundreds of thousands of people, often shaking their hand and making polite small talk.
Given the huge number of people she meets, it would be fair to assume she'd have a hard time remembering who she's actually meeting - and you'd be right.
But, ever the professional, the Queen has a clever strategy to make sure she appears as though she's done her research every time she meets someone new.
Children's author Julia Donaldson - who penned the famous The Gruffalo book - experienced this first hand, when she was appointed CBE at the Queen's honours.
Julia explained to Whimn : "I was told the Queen goes through the potted biographies with a yellow marker and just two words get highlighted.
"So when you get called up, the equerry shows her the words. I did my little curtsey and she said, 'Oh, so you're a writer. You're very popular...' I went off thinking 'writer/ popular...' those must have been my two words."
The author went on to say she was "full of admiration" for Her Majesty, who "does this with some 75 people every session and she's on her feet the whole time."
But, while absolutely no one can criticise the Queen for her dedication to her work, it turns out that there are some elements to her position that irritate her - no matter how well she manages to hide it.
"Ever wondered what the Queen feels like when she enters a room filled with people, knowing they're all nervous about meeting her?" royal author Adam Heliker explained.
"Well, an RAF officer who served as an equerry discloses: 'One summer day she asked me to join her on a walk at Balmoral. She talked about how irritating it was to go into a party and as she put it, watch people peel away, like the water parting as the bow of a ship ploughed through it.
"'She said she always felt it would be lovely to just slip into a party, wandering around incognito, talking to anyone she felt like. But the thing that most irritated her was the 'inevitable hush' that always greeted her when they saw her walking in."
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