Queen Elizabeth II showed her true colours just days before she died during an unearthed moment.

The late royal's long standing stud groom, Tony Pendry, revealed the moment during a conversation with Gyles Brandreth on the latter's podcast. The Queen is said to have remained in high spirits in those final days and spoke about their last pony joyride together, which left the Queen reprimanding her aide.

Mr Pendry explained a comment made about the pony and the Queen's age was not taken too kindly by the monarch. Asking for her aide to walk next to her than ride with her, something which had not happened "since she was a princess", Mr Pendry made a comment on the age between the pony and Royal Family figurehead.

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After asking to take a picture during the ride, the Queen asked "what do you want to do that for?" and he replied: "Well, you'd like one for your scrapbook. Your pony's 26, you're 96, that has to be a record." The next day, the Queen said to Mr Pendry: "You were very rude to me yesterday."

He says he replied: "Your Majesty, I'm awfully sorry, but what do you mean, rude? If I was, I apologise profusely – it wouldn't have been intentional and I apologise. Was it something I said?" She replied: "You said my age" and then burst into laughter, according to Mr Pendry's account of events, the Express reported. The encounter served as a show of the Queen's true colours as she was known for her sense of humour and wit.

Mr Pendry added: "That was just her." The aide was also responsible for sneaking the Queen's beloved Emma into the grounds of the gardens adjacent to Windsor Castle so she could maintain forms of exercise and get fresh air in her later years. He added of his relationship with the Queen: "Over the years we became very good friends."