The Queen is known for her cheeky sense of humour and extremely quick wit.
And it's been revealed she couldn't resist making a hilarious quip at a party while being introduced to TV presenters Ant and Dec.
Former This Morning host Fern Britton has told how Her Majesty once pretended she didn't know who the Geordie duo were.
The 64-year-old was at an ITV anniversary party in 2005 when she watched the monarch approach the pair - and asked whether they worked behind the camera.
The TV star said she found the gag 'very funny' and thinks Her Majesty is 'great'.
Speaking to Prima magazine, the novelist said: "It was serendipitous that I published the book in the Queen's Jubilee year.
"I actually started writing it two years ago. I think The Queen is great.
"I met her when ITV turned 50 and she came to a big reception.
"She was wearing gloves and had her glass of iced martini in one hand; when she came to shake my hand her gloves were ringing wet with condensation.
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"She was also very funny - she went up to Ant and Dec and said 'do you two work behind the camera?'"
Earlier this week, the Queen celebrated the achievements of the NHS across the decades by awarding the institution the George Cross.
Looking relaxed, the 96-year-old head of state was joined by the Prince of Wales for a small Windsor Castle ceremony where health leaders from the four home nations were each awarded the medal.
And at the event, she also showed off her sense of humour as she met May Parsons, the matron who delivered the world’s first Covid-19 vaccine outside of clinical trials to Maggie Keenan on December 8 2020.
When told about Ms Parsons’ historic first, she made her guests laugh with the quip: “You’re still alive?”
She also lightened the mood, after the chief executive of NHS Scotland revealed she had been told not to put the George Cross in her handbag.
The Queen then told the representatives from Wales: “This is your George Cross, now I know you won’t put it in your handbag.”
After the presentations the recipients posed for a group photograph with the Queen and Prince Charles and she made them laugh when she said: “Don’t look too miserable.”
The George Cross was instituted by her father George VI in September 1940 during the height of the Blitz.
It is granted in recognition of “acts of the greatest heroism or of the most courage in circumstances of extreme danger” and recognises actions by civilians and military personnel not in the face of the enemy.
