There was a time when swearing at the monarch would have resulted in being sent straight to the Tower.
But thankfully compassion rather than beheading was more in vogue when youth worker John Davidson met the late Queen Elizabeth II - and suddenly blurted out some rather choice words in the process.
'F*** the Queen!' he shouted, just as she handed him a much-coveted MBE at Holyrood in 2019.
But rather than flinching, the Queen remained 'kind' and 'as calm and assured as my granny', adding the Monarch had been well-briefed on his daily experience of living with Tourette's Syndrome, he told The Times.
The neurological condition, characterised by a combination of involuntary noises and movements called tics, affects roughly one in 100 children, according to NHS England.
