The monarch has long inspired enormous admiration in her subjects and, it turns out, in her granddaughters as well.
(Matt Dunha/AFP/Getty Images)Princesses
Eugenie and Beatrice - daughters of the Queen's son Prince Andrew -
shared their feelings last month about their royal grandmother."It's phenomenal, actually, when she walks into the room because everyone just stops and stares. And even I catch myself going, 'Oh, wow,'" Eugenie said an interview May 21 with ABC News' Claire Shipman at the royal family home in Windsor.
"Because she's just this most incredible lady who makes everyone just stop for a second and we're all kind in awe of her. So it's great. It's fantastic.
Despite her status as head of the state of the United Kingdom, to the princesses, the queen is "granny," first and foremost.
"I think Granny is … she's very funny," Eugenie, 22, said.
"She says, 'I'm too young to be a grandmother,'" Beatrice, 23, added.
Asked about rumors that the queen loves to play cards, Eugenie
laughingly replied: "We play a lot of Patience, which is the most
difficult game ever. And I don't have very much patience. So when we
play, it's quite funny because she will sit there for a good hour and a
half and I'll sit opposite her and she'll win a fairly few times."
While Eugenie said she wouldn't describe her grandmother as competitive, she added, "She just wins."
She said the queen enjoys the time playing with her granddaughters
because "it's the time when we can all just kind of hang around together
and it's quite nice."
Beatrice added: "Those are the bits that I enjoy the most, sort of
learning, 'Oh my gosh, you know, [what] was it like to drive an
ambulance in the Second World War?'
"She's an incredible driver, she's still driving now," Beatrice added.
"She drives the big trucks, the big Land Rovers around Balmoral," her
residence in Scotland.
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