FORMER Home Secretary Alan Johnson once wolfed down biscuits the Queen had put out for her corgis at a banquet.
The Labour grandee, 71, mistook the posh dog treats for crackers to go with the cheese laid out.
The gaffe came as Mr Johnson sat next to Her Majesty and ex-Welsh Secretary Paul Murphy at a meal with army chiefs at Windsor Castle.
The hilarious story was revealed in new biography Queen of Our Times: The Life of Elizabeth II.
Author Robert Hardman wrote: “The informality continued right to the end, as the Queen chatted and fed snacks to her corgis at the same time.
“The two Cabinet ministers left in high spirits. We were waiting for our cars and Paul said, ‘What a wonderful meal’.
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“As they discussed the food, Johnson mentioned he had particularly enjoyed the cheese and the unusual dark biscuits.
“Paul said, ‘No, the dark biscuits were for the corgis!’.
“At that point — to Alan Johnson’s eternal amusement — it suddenly dawned on him that he had been munching away on the dogs’ snacks.
“He said, ‘I don’t think I’d had cheese with a Bonio biscuit before’.”
The 2008 dinner came just days after a jury inquest on the death of Princess Diana returned a verdict of unlawful killing.
Mr Johnson says in the book: “At lunch, we had a whale of a time. She [the Queen] was good company. It was as if you’d known her for years.
“We talked about whatever was in the news — and the dominant news was about Diana.
“Paul and I thought we’d better keep off the subject. But the Queen talked about it in the most frank way, about how the thing had run and run and run.”
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Her Majesty, 95, has owned 30 corgis in her life.
However, she no longer walks her dogs at Windsor Castle after her recent health scare.
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