We're taking notes on Queen Elizabeth's tactic to leaving awkward social situations 👀
, it's clear that she was a remarkable woman. She was a steadfast leader, a skilled diplomat and, as it turns out, she was aOver her 70-year reign, the Queen had to meet, greet, host and entertainof people, which was probably fun when it's Marilyn Monroe, Lady Gaga, Frank Sinatra and Barak Obama .
But, it turns out, the Queen had a strategy for exactly those kind of moments and it involved… applying her lipstick. Yep, really. Her former footman, Ian Scott Hunter, who worked with the Queen for eight years, let slip her secret code on a special episode of Antiques Roadshow, on board the Royal Yacht Britannia, which was dedicated to "celebrat[ing] the reign and long life of Her Majesty the Queen."
He revealed, she used her makeup to let her Ladies In Waiting know that she wanted to go. “I believe there’s etiquette that ladies do not make their faces up in public,” the former royal footman explained, “but she had her bag over the side and she would take her lipstick out and put it on with no mirror or anything, and that was a signal to the ladies that she was ready to leave.”
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