- The Queen was ‘nearly shot’ by her guard while taking a stroll at 3am - The guard reportedly spotted a shadow and mistook walking and mistook the queen for an intruder On nights when she can’t sleep, the 90-year-old Queen of United Kingdom, Queen Elizabeth II will occasionally put on her coat and go for a short stroll, an ex-guardsman told The Times. Queen Elizabeth 'nearly shot' by her guard. According to reports, one of the Queen’s guards reported that late one night, while he was patrolling inside the perimeter of the Palace walls he spotted a figure in the darkness. Thinking that he had caught a potentially dangerous intruder, sneaking into the Royal residence at 3 a.m., he shouted: “Who’s that?” But to the guard's surprise, it was actually the Queen. The guard reportedly said to her: “Bloody hell, Your Majesty, I nearly shot you.” Before this incident, in 2013, a man scaled the perimeter fence and was found at around 10pm actually inside the building, in one of the State Rooms. None of the royals were home at the time. The news of the near-shooting comes at a time when the public is particularly tuned into the Queen’s well-being. The 90-year-old monarch was not seen for a fortnight over the Christmas period due to poor health. She missed a New Year's Day church service at Sandringham because of a lingering heavy cold, and just a week before that she and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, were forced to delay their journey from Buckingham Palace to their Norfolk estate after she fell ill. Meanwhile, the Queen has stepped down as patron of more than 20 national organisations at the end of December 2016. This was announced by Buckingham Palace on Tuesday, December 20, it was however stressed that the monarch is still patron of more than 600 organisations. Her replacement would be members of the royal family and the organisations involved include: Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, Barnardo’s, the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club and Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Association .***prbxselfnetwork***
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