Ella Mountbatten
(Picture: Ella Mountbatten / Evening Standard)Ella Mountbatten, 26, was a cousin of the Queen. She tells us about her personal memories of the late sovereign, including apperances on the famous balcony of Buckingham Palace and visits to Balmoral.
One of the first times that I was on the balcony at Buckingham Palace, I scooted my way to the centre; I managed to get right in between Charles and Camilla (this was when they first started to be seen in public together) and loads of the press couldn’t identify me because I was so far away from my dad. All these newspapers called me a gate-crasher! Afterwards, the Queen apologised to my dad for it.
