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Prince Harry taught the Queen Mother to do an impression of TV character Ali G

HARRY writes in Spare about drinking his first cocktail with the Queen Mother and teaching her to do an impression of the TV character Ali G.

Both William and Harry have spoken before about the Ali G impression.

Prince Harry taught the Queen Mother to do an impression of TV character Ali G
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Prince Harry taught the Queen Mother to do an impression of TV character Ali G
Harry said she clicked her fingers and said: 'Respec’ - like Ali G, pictured, would - and the family fell about laughing'
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Harry said she clicked her fingers and said: 'Respec’ - like Ali G, pictured, would - and the family fell about laughing'Credit: PA:Press Association

“It was two or three Christmases ago, and we were sitting down watching Ali G on TV,” William said in a previous interview. 

“We were laughing when she came in.

“She couldn’t understand what was going on, so we explained to her what he was doing.

“Harry and I showed her what to do.

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“She loved it, and after three goes she had it.”

Harry added that after one family dinner she clicked her fingers and said: “Respec’, and the family fell about laughing.

Harry also says he drank his first cocktail with her.

According to Adrian Tinniswood’s book ‘Behind the Throne: A Domestic History of the Royal Household’, the Queen Mum loved a tipple.

It said she would start a day with a Dubonnet and gin before lunch, wine with lunch and a pre-dinner martini.

And with her evening meal she would treat herself to a Veuve Clicquot champagne

Harry also says he drank his first cocktail with the Queen Mother
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Harry also says he drank his first cocktail with the Queen MotherCredit: Getty
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