Adam Fox-Edwards, a Squadron Leader and former Assistant to the Master of the Household during Queen Elizabeth’s reign, has opened up about his decision to bus royals and foreign heads of state to mass events, as opposed to using individual motorcades.Speaking exclusively to GB News, Mr Fox-Edwards revealed that he once asked King Charles, Princess Anne, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Prince Edward to step in as bus monitors for a hilarious reason.He said: “I had to move 200 VIPs around London at the same time, and to start with, they were all wanting their own motorcades to move them around, which would have brought London to a halt. “So I put them on buses. That was a unique thing that we did, and in order to get all these crowned heads to go on a bus – I actually had four buses – I had Charles, Anne, Andrew and Edward as a bus monitor each.”Every crowned head and every VIP said, ‘Oh, this is great!’ They actually thought it was rather fun to go on a bus. “We had four coaches taking them around London, so we could move 200 people without them all wanting their own motorcade and bringing London to a halt at every single junction.”The former Squadron Leader added: “Each of the VIPs was allocated to a bus, so I made it both colour-coded and numbered. So Bus One was red, Bus Two was yellow, etc. “I also would say, for instance, if it was the Prince of Wales, as he was then: ‘He’s your bus monitor, so if he gets on, that’s the bus you’re getting on. Adam Fox-Edwards, a Squadron Leader and former Assistant to the Master of the Household during Queen Elizabeth’s reign, has opened up about his decision to bus royals and foreign heads of state to mass events, as opposed to using individual motorcades | PA”‘It doesn’t matter whether you’ve lost or can’t remember your colour or your number, but you will remember the person. So, if you’re with Princess Anne, get on that bus.'”That’s what we did, which meant you could then have one police escort per bus rather than having lots and lots of police being tied up by lots of different cars.”Mr Fox-Edwards claimed that the royals enjoyed the experience because “most of them don’t travel on a bus very often.”He continued: “I think they thought it was quite amusing. But there were one or two Royal Families, and I won’t mention which ones, but their staff were a bit sticky.
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Adam Fox-Edwards, a Squadron Leader and former Assistant to the Master of the Household during Queen Elizabeth’s reign, has spoken exclusively to GB News about the Royal Family’s decision to no longer live in Buckingham Palace | CHANNEL 5″We explained that actually our royals were doing this, and that’s the way we were doing it. Everyone fell into line then!”Mr Fox-Edwards, who is appearing in the current Channel 5 documentary series, Buckingham Palace: A Year In The Life, opened up about working for the late Queen Elizabeth II in a personal capacity.He told the People’s Channel: “It was her humour and her encyclopedic knowledge of people. “When you think how many people she would meet every year… Her knowledge was just encyclopedic. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor pictured helping his daughter, Princess Eugenie, onto a bus in 1997 | PA”She really remembered individuals. The ladies-in-waiting, who were her personal friends and assistants, knew a lot. “But eventually, if they wouldn’t know something, they said, ‘Well, ask the Queen. She’ll remember!’ And she did.”Her humour, her smile… Most of the time, when the public saw her on public duties, she looked serious doing her job launching a ship or opening a bridge, or whatever the duties were. “But actually, off duty, there was a raging smile that would light up a room, which is something that the general public didn’t see a lot of, but that was my abiding memory. That, and the humour and sensitivity that she had.”Buckingham Palace: A Year in the Life is airing on Saturdays at 9:15pm on Channel 5.