- Lord Cameron repeatedly apologised for the blunder which happened in 2014
The late Queen suggested David Cameron should have received ‘six of the best’ after he said she ‘purred’ when Scotland voted against independence, it was claimed last night.
Lord Cameron has repeatedly apologised for the 2014 blunder, in which he broke convention by discussing a conversation with the Queen in a hot mic conversation with ex-New York mayor Michael Bloomberg.
As recently as 2019, the Foreign Secretary called the remark a ‘terrible mistake’.
He personally apologised to Her late Majesty, adding he was ‘extremely sorry and very embarrassed’.
The late Queen suggested David Cameron should have received ‘six of the best’ after he said she ‘purred’ when Scotland voted against independence, it was claimed last night
Just after the gaffe, Alex Salmond said he was invited to meet the Queen at Balmoral, where she was not shy about venting her displeasure at the incidentÂ
But resurrecting the episode yesterday, former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond recalled an anecdote which he said gave an ‘insight’ into how the late sovereign viewed Lord Cameron during his tenure as Prime Minister.
Just after the gaffe, the Alba Party leader said he was invited to meet the Queen at Balmoral, where she was not shy about venting her displeasure at the incident.
Mr Salmond told TalkTV: ‘The next day I got a summons, an invitation to breakfast at Balmoral… I got to Balmoral for breakfast and Her Majesty the Queen said under no circumstances was she purring, she was extremely annoyed with her Prime Minister and felt he required six of the best.’
He said that the Queen’s alleged unguarded remarks gave a ‘little insight into the estimation of our new Foreign Secretary… and as I have said, she was right on lots of things’.