{"id":51017,"date":"2025-04-26T02:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T02:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/51017\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T02:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T02:49:08","slug":"inside-the-royal-familys-house-guests-from-hell-that-made-late-queen-angrier-than-ever-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/51017\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Royal Family’s house guests from hell that made late Queen ‘angrier than ever’ | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not all guests who have received a state welcome from the Royal Family<\/a> have left a favourable impression on their hosts, according to a podcast. In the Daily Mail’s<\/a> podcast, ‘Queens, Kings and Dastardly Things’, columnist Robert Hardman and historian Professor Kate Williams discussed how one guest even smuggled a dog inside Buckingham Palace<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to reports, the mishap took place in the 1970s, when Europe was fighting the disease, rabies, spread by the bite of an infected animal. Britain had a draconian rule which included holding pet dogs in a strict six-month quarantine to make sure they were rabies-free.<\/p>\n

In 1973, the Conservative government of Edward Heath invited the African dictator President Mobutu of Zaire, to Britain<\/a>, along with his wife, Marie-Antoinette. But alarm bells were raised when a call was made to ask the footman to bring a plate of raw meat to the room.<\/p>\n

The palace staff were slightly baffled by the request but nevertheless obliged and made their way to the Belgian suite at Buckingham Palace<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The servant shortly discovered his guest had a small pet dog in her luggage – this was reported to Queen Elizabeth II<\/a> who was so vexed by their behaviour that multiple members of palace staff claimed they had never seen her so angry.<\/p>\n

The Daily Mail reports the late Queen retorted, “Get that dog out of my house!” and her beloved corgis were whisked off to Windsor Castle for protection.<\/p>\n

President Mobutu of Zaire<\/a> attempted to explain what had happened during a speech at 10 Downing Street, insisting the dog was of British heritage and she wanted to show the dog its homeland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not all guests who have received a state welcome from the Royal Family have left a favourable impression…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[27301,11572,1763,5105,7710,519,448,27299,27300],"class_list":{"0":"post-51017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-mobutu-sese-seko","9":"tag-prince-philip","10":"tag-queen-elizabeth-ii","11":"tag-royal","12":"tag-royal-families","13":"tag-royal-family","14":"tag-royals","15":"tag-state-visits","16":"tag-the-president-of-zaire"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114401992005755749","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}