Queen Elizabeth II has been the monarch of the United Kingdom for 17 years and has attended several private and public royal engagements throughout that time.

A joyful and friendly hand wave to everybody she meets is a gesture she is always required to make. Your Highness never loses the patience to demonstrate her regal wave even when she is surrounded by throng for hours.

As a result of the ordeal, a student decided to give the monarch a false hand to use when she was fatigued. Princess Anne, the Queen’s daughter, told the story in 1980.

Anne revealed that the gift was given to Parkinson during the 95-year-Royal old’s Tour to Australia in 1970.

She said: “There were still one or two sort of noisy students about in those days – the end of the Sixties, you know. There was this slightly noisy group on arrival, and we thought what are they up to.

“And three of them pushed out of the crowd with this hand and it was a sort of stuffed glove, for want of a better expression, with a joint. And these three presented it to the Queen, I think thinking that they were being really rather daring and rather cheeky.

“And the Queen took it from them and said ‘Thank you very much, that is what I’ve always wanted!’ And their faces literally dropped because this wasn’t quite the reaction they’d expected!”

Princess Royal revealed where the hand is presently when questioned: “We’ve never seen it again. So if they’re watching perhaps they’ll make us another one.”

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