Then-Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia got more than he bargained for at a lunch with Queen Elizabeth II in Scotland.
. Cowper-Coles did not witness the incident, he said, but he heard about it from two very reliable sources: the two heads of state themselves.
had made it less popular with the public than ever before. In Saudi Arabia, King Fahd had a severe stroke in 1995, leaving Abdullah the de facto ruler. In September 1998, the queen invited Abdullah to Balmoral for lunch. Afterward, he was invited on a tour of the 50,000-acre estate. The prince was instructed to take the passenger’s seat — on the left side in the United Kingdom. Then, “to his surprise,” the queen got into the driver’s seat on the right, turned the ignition and started driving them away.
The queen — again, an experienced driver who knew the Balmoral estate well — began speeding the Land Rover through the narrow mountain roads of the Scottish highlands, “talking all the time.” Through his interpreter, Cowper-Coles wrote, a very nervous Abdullah “implored the Queen to slow down and concentrate on the road ahead.”Five years later, in 2003, Cowper-Coles was named Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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