her Majesty has held audiences with 14 Prime Ministers during her 70 years on the throne, with Winston Churchill being the first in the early 1950s. Few may have been as colorful as Boris Johnsonwho had to apologize to the monarch for partying the night before Prince Philip’s funeral when strict social distancing rules were still in place.
Despite this royal expert, Ingrid Seward told The Daily Mirror that the sovereign would have a degree of “sympathy” for Mr Johnson and be “amused” by his “usual banter”.
She said: “The Queen must be above politics.
“She is expected to remain politically neutral and while her meetings with her 14th Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, have mainly been conducted via weekly telephone calls, certain political issues may arise.
“I suspect the Queen feels a measure of maternal sympathy for Boris, 58, who is the same age as her youngest son, Prince Edward.
“She first met Boris when he was Mayor of London and later Foreign Secretary.
“When he was appointed her fourteenth prime minister on July 24, 2019, she is said to have been familiar with his rambunctious, charismatic charm and aware of his troubled private life and tendency not to tell the whole story.
“The Queen values honesty, integrity and duty above all else.
“She dislikes dishonesty, vanity, sloppiness and lack of attention to detail.
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“Unfortunately for Boris, he is not blessed with the characteristics of the kind of man she admires, although she was undoubtedly charmed by him and amused by his usual chatter.”
Mr Johnson made his first royal blunder as prime minister just hours after he was appointed, when he broke royal protocol by revealing some of the monarch’s comments to staff in their private audience.
Ms. Seward, editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine, argued that the Queen “wouldn’t be happy” with the gaffe.
She added: “The first problem came after his first official meeting with the monarch, when he revealed to his staff that the Queen almost understood his predicament and said, ‘I don’t know why anyone would want the job.’
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“She wouldn’t have been surprised if he leaked an innocent comment. But she wouldn’t have been happy.
Just over a month later, Johnson was accused of misleading the Queen by asking her to suspend parliament for five weeks in an effort to avoid criticism of the government’s Brexit plan.
“It turned out that the monarch, on Johnson’s advice, had unlawfully suspended parliament.
“It was the first of many black marks for Boris, culminating in having to apologize to the monarch for ‘party gate’ after holding two celebrations at 10 Downing Street while the nation was in mourning over the Duke’s death. from Edinburgh, including one on the eve of the funeral.
“The Queen probably didn’t like Boris’ way of doing things and hated his ‘wrong memory’.
“But she’s a perfect hostess, and when he came to Balmoral for his first official premier weekend, he invited him to take Carrie with him, even though they weren’t married yet.
“But in general, the Queen believes a lot in deeds rather than words and must long for a sincere Prime Minister who means what he says and carries on with it.”