Royal commentator recalls time he accidentally asked the Queen to help wash dishes

Royal commentator Dickie Arbiter recalled the time he accidentally asked Queen Elizabeth II to help wash up dishes.

Describing it as “one of the most outstanding memories I have”, Arbiter recalled the story from 1988 during an interview with GMB on Friday (9 September).

He explained: “I heard this footfall behind me and I thought, ‘Wonderful, the lady in waiting has come to give me a hand,’ and I said casually over my shoulder, ‘I’ll wash, you dry.’

“There was a pause and then this voice said: ‘No, I’ll wash, you dry.’”

The voice, of course, was the Queen.

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