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The brag of Racing NSW, Peter V'landys, has remembered Queen Elizabeth II arsenic a "beautiful quality being" following her decease astatine the property of 96.
V'landys spent 90 minutes with the queen astatine Windsor Castle successful June, anterior to a contention gathering astatine Royal Ascot.
V'landys, who is besides the Australian Rugby League Commission chairman, said some racing and the NRL volition honour the queen successful the coming days.
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"She was a beauteous quality being and I was precise fortunate and fortunate to person had luncheon with her successful June this year," helium told Radio 2GB's Ben Fordham.
"She looked beauteous steadfast and her intelligence authorities was amazing, she was arsenic crisp arsenic anything.
"It's precise bittersweet and I was rather shocked actually."
V'landys said helium was amazed to find himself seated adjacent to the monarch astatine lunch.
"The luncheon was astatine Windsor Castle, earlier the contention gathering astatine Ascot. The contented is she rides the carriage down the consecutive of Ascot with her luncheon guests. I was fortunate capable to beryllium adjacent to her astatine lunch, it was rather surreal," helium said.
"We walked up the stairs astatine Windsor Castle and we were conscionable lasting there. The adjacent happening you cognize Prince Charles comes retired of the near manus corner, and is arsenic charming arsenic a prince is.
"Then the queen came. When the queen walked through, the full country stopped. It was conscionable similar an angel came into the room, it was unbelievable."
"To my amazement, I was really sitting adjacent to her, and I spoke to her for astir an hr and a half," helium added.
"I threw a fewer barbs astatine her, and she gave arsenic bully arsenic she got. That's the happening that I truly remember, her mischievous consciousness of humour and her wit. It was amazing."
He besides revealed the queen disclosed wherever her emotion of horses originated.
"The communicative that she told maine that truly touched maine and sent shivers up my spine," helium said.
"I said to her, 'Where did you get the emotion of horses? Why are you truthful fascinated by horses?'
"She said, 'My father, King George VI owned 2 horses, helium wasn't large into racing but it was contented that kings person horses. One time helium said helium had to spell to the races and helium took maine with him.'
"She said she touched the cervix of the equine and it felt similar velvet and she said, 'I conscionable had a enslaved betwixt myself and the horse, to the constituent wherever I didn't lavation my hands for 3 oregon 4 days'."
V'landys said the queen, who reigned for 70 years, instantly enactment those astir her astatine ease.
"She had the quality to marque you consciousness calm and comfortable, due to the fact that you look underneath the array and there's 2 corgis looking astatine you," helium laughed.
"I wasn't definite if it was royal etiquette to provender them, oregon pat them. She's conscionable a charming lady.
"She said I reminded her a small spot of her husband, being of Greek contented and the information helium utilized to commercialized barbs with her arsenic well.
"I deliberation she enjoyed that I treated her usually and didn't spell done the pomp and ceremony.
"I tried my hardest to beryllium normal. An hr and a fractional felt similar 5 minutes."
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