The Queen — she’s just like us!
Queen Elizabeth was, perhaps for the first time in her life, locked out of her castle this week. England’s reigning monarch attempted to enter Windsor Castle on Friday — only to find the gates shut, locked — and no one there to open them.
“A female bodyguard jumped out from one of the cars and tried in vain to pull the heavy wooden gate open,” according to the Daily Mail. “After just under a minute of pulling and pushing in the pouring rain, the convoy decided to drive off and try their luck at another entrance.”
One onlooker told the paper they had “never seen anything like it in 30 years. … I’m not sure if someone was sleeping on the job or simply that they were not expecting her, but it’s unheard of,” adding, “And it’s not often you get to see a queen locked out of her own castle.”