Zadie Smith: The Queen is so lower middle class

SHE has ruled over her grateful subjects for 65 years.

But despite her decades of illustrious Royal service, the Queen is still distinctly lower middle class – or so writer Zadie Smith believes.

The Left-wing author cited the 91-year-old monarch’s morning routine – a copy of the Racing Post propped up on a tupperware box full of cereal – as an example of her less-than-regal habits.

Writing in the first edition of Vogue edited by Edward Enninful, she said: ‘She appears, in our mental picture of her, as distinctly lower middle class. I think this is what accounts for her relative popularity, as compared to her clan – that touch of “Mrs Wind- sor”.’ Describing the Queen as ‘suburban’, Miss Smith also gave her prized corgis a bashing for their ‘squat’ bodies and ‘stubby legs’.

She said greyhounds or King Charles spaniels would be a better fit for an upper class woman.

Of the Queen’s voice, the 42-yearold observed: ‘The only thing I can compare it to is the kind of voice your mum puts on when someone important is on the phone.’

The White Teeth author also said that the Queen’s apparent penchant for cornflakes, ‘most cakes’, and a gin and Dubonnet were further signs of her lower class lifestyle.