The Secret Diary of the Queen Aged 93 ½
Giles Coren Has No Idea
The Times
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Giles and Esther comb through the papers at their kitchen table to find an idea for this week’s column; from the Women’s World Cup to robot bees and the Queen’s secret diary. Esther reveals disreputable behaviour at sports day and finds out Giles has been reading her teenage diaries.
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| 0:45.0 | avante west coast feel good travel. Welcome to Giles Corrin has no idea. It's called this not because I literally know nothing, but because it's all about the moment in the week when I have to sit down and write my column, but have absolutely no idea what to write it about, which is where my wife Esther comes in, who, having read all the papers whilst I take the kids to school, |
| 1:14.3 | always has half a dozen ideas picked out for me when I get back to be discussed at the kitchen table |
| 1:19.0 | over a nice cup of coffee. Now I loved the story at the beginning of the week about the fact that the Queen keeps |
| 1:31.3 | a diary. |
| 1:32.3 | Giles Brandreth went to visit the Queen. |
| 1:35.0 | I feel like... |
| 1:37.0 | What do you mean, Giles, but he lives with the Queen? |
| 1:38.6 | Jars Brandreth always goes to... |
| 1:39.6 | I was going to say, I feel like Giles Brandtards probably round for tea with the Queen every week. |
| 1:44.8 | And she goes, oh fuck it's Brandtigmas. |
| 1:46.8 | Here he is. |
| 1:47.8 | And also she probably goes, why does he spell his name with the why is what the Queen wants to know? |
| 1:51.5 | My favourite economist, Giles Corrin, spells spells it with an eye like all cool people. |
| 1:54.6 | What is grandeur's problem? Big problem for me that he's the most famous Jiles and he spells it wrong. But anyway, yeah, what? |
| 2:00.0 | What do you think, do you feel like Charles Pran is more famous than you is that does that bother you? |
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