Moment Aussie cricket legend 'embarrassed' Queen

Australian accelerated bowler Dennis Lillee stunned Queen Elizabeth II by asking for her autograph during the Centenary Test astatine the MCG successful 1977.

As the Australian and English sides were presented to the queen connected the last time of the match, Lillee produced a pen and insubstantial and asked Her Majesty for her autograph.

"Her reply was to the effect that she couldn't bash it successful beforehand of each the radical astatine the crushed due to the fact that she would beryllium stopped and asked wherever she went," Lillee wrote successful his autobiography.

Lillee said helium forgot each astir the incidental until Buckingham Palace contacted him a week later, arsenic the queen wanted to nonstop him a signed photograph of the moment.

"You could person picked maine up disconnected the level and the representation takes pridefulness of spot successful my house," Lillee wrote.

"You tin ideate however chuffed I was. I had astir apt embarrassed her and each the cricket officials, but, astatine the time, I could not spot the crushed not to ask. People asked maine for my autograph and I signed; astatine least, that was my logic."