“Old is who it feels like”. Probably one day she will be remembered in the books of the famous phrases of Queen Elizabeth II, who despite the 95 years old just does not feel.

For this reason the sovereign refused, with these very words, an award aimed at the most illustrious elders. “Oldie of the year award”, an award offered to her by the magazine “The Oldie”, dedicated to the elderly.

An “old lady of the year” award that didn't go down to Elizabeth. The queen entrusted her personal secretary, Tom Laing-Baker, with the answer. to meet the relevant criteria in order to accept, and hopes you will find a more suitable recipient. "

Recipient identified in the French-American star of the cinema Leslie Caron, who is 90 years old, five less than Elizabeth II.

The sovereign has sat on the throne for almost 70 years but has never publicly celebrated, except on official occasions, the numerous records broken. For example, when she became Britain's longest-lived monarch in September 2015, she spent the day like any other, inaugurating a new railway line. It almost seems that this real refusal is a sort of involuntary response to what has been circulating in the press in recent days: some very normal signs of aging that the sovereign, always active and in great shape, faces with an enviable ease.

In recent public engagements she was first seen with a walking stick, although she has no walking problems but uses it on the most uneven surfaces. According to a gossip, however, her doctors would have asked her for health reasons not to drink more glasses of alcohol, starting with the beloved Martini.

(Unioneonline / L)

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