By Royal Appointment

[itsjustc]

Elizabeth stepped out of bed and stared at the woman glaring back at her from the full length mirror. Dressed in a long blue faded flannelette nightgown, red woolly bedsocks and with green curlers wound tightly in her white hair, she looked exactly like any other elderly lady. Her wrinkled face was kind and gentle but extremely pale and tired.

Comments

[meridian_rose]

A fun read :)

[itsjustc]

Thank you.

As I'd been filling in difficult official forms during the whole of December and right up to Christmas I decided I needed to write something light and fun to cheer myself up x

[oxymoron67]

This was a fun read.

[itsjustc]

Thank you.

I think I needed to write something that was a bit fun for my own sanity! - I'd had a mentally tiring month.

[majesticzaichik]

Haha i hope that best lookalike Elizabeth gets the chance to meet real Elizabeth some day.

[itsjustc]

I think she's love it if that happened! Especially if the really Elizabeth made a quiet comment to her telling her that she knows who she is and that she used to enjoy watching her on a comedy TV Christmas Special show in the 1970s - she could have possibly been hired to appear as the Queen on The Dick Emery Show or The Morecambe and Wise Show!! haha!

[kehlen]

I love how you made it a mystery who she was right until the announcement: just an elderly lady? the monarch herself? Who? :)

[itsjustc]

Thank you.
I was trying hard to not give the surprise away until the reveal, but then again I was trying to give enough away to make people wonder x

[static_abyss]

Nice pacing and quite a heart warming read. I really enjoyed the perspective and the details.

[itsjustc]

Thank you for your constructive comments.

I'm still reasonably new to writing and struggle with confidence due to teachers at school in the 1970s constantly telling me how rubbish I was at English Lit and Language!