Queen’s quip about age

THE Queen may be our longest-serving monarch, but even she admits she is unlikely to be around very much longer.

She acknowledges her mortality in a joke with Sir David Attenborough in a conservation documentary due to air next year.

The pair, both 91, are chatting in the grounds of Buckingham Palace when he says that because of climate change ‘there will be all kinds of different trees growing here in another 50 years’ time’.

The Queen replies: ‘I won’t be here though’ – causing Sir David to burst out laughing.

She then points out a bent sapling and asks someone off camera: ‘Is it meant to be like that? Somebody sat on it I think at a garden party.’