Royal lock-out: Embarrassing blunder leaves Queen waiting
Queen Elizabeth has undergone an embarrassing security blunder after being locked outside the gates of her home.
The monarch and her security team were unable to enter the Windsor Castle premises in two Range Rovers on Thursday afternoon.
The rare blunder occurred while Her Majesty was sat wearing a headscarf sitting in the backseat, while she and her team were left waiting outside the Nelson’s Gate entrance.
Reports say a member of staff forget to let her inside.
Pictures taken of the royal mistake show a female bodyguard attempting to open the heavy wooden gate blocking their entrance.
The error was made apparent when the two vehicles performed a U-turn and drove through a remote-controlled gate in a second approach.
The Windsor Estate is the Queen's favourite residence and she usually arrives there on Thursday afternoons and leaves again on Tuesday.
One onlooker told the Daily Mail they had "never seen anything like it in 30 years".
"I'm not sure if someone was sleeping on the job or simply that they were not expecting her, but it's unheard of," the source said.
"And it's not often you get to see a queen locked out of her own castle."