After seven decades of reign and with the noise in the media about the monarch due to the news of her death, you may think you already know everything about Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. From what perfume she wore to her favorite sandwich of hers. However, famous for her discretion and her eternal poker face, Europe’s oldest queen also had a less formal face that sometimes showed through her sense of humor and love of corgis. Also to a vitality that it rejuvenated her more than the holy retinol serum from Mercadona influencers, and that it contributed to the fact that, despite her advanced age, it could be said that she also had something of gamer.
Although it has never been confirmed by Buckingham Palace, the English tabloid The Mirror has affirmed on several occasions to have sources in the palace that assure that Elizabeth II was no stranger to the video game world. And, apparently, it was more from Nintendo than from Playstation.
Supposedly, his hobby began in early 2008 at the House of Sandringhan, owned by the British royal family. Legend has it that Prince William and his then-girlfriend, Kate Middleton, were playing Wii in one of their living rooms when Queen Elizabeth caught them and decided to join them curious about that device.
That was how the queen discovered the bowling minigame, for which he seems to have had a natural talent, with coordination and reflexes that would be more in keeping with a person half his age and not the 81-year-old he was then.
In fact, he was about to have his own 24 karat gold console. The video game studio, currently defunct, THQ wanted to give the manorca a Wii with these characteristics to, incidentally, market its video game Big Family Gameswith which various sports such as horse riding, petanque or horseshoes could be practiced.
However, it is known that Elizabeth was never able to enjoy the gift as Buckingham, for security reasons, you have a protocol where you cannot accept any unsolicited gifts sent to The Queen. So the package was returned. But the console exists and is currently owned by a Dutch collector named Donny Fillerup, who has a collection of 260 of these devices, although the Queen keeps it in a special display case like the (almost) royal jewel that it is.
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