Bless her!
Six-year-old Maisie’s big moment meeting the Queen may have been accidentally overshadowed.
Adorable Maisie was selected to continue a regimental tradition and wear traditional Welsh dress and hand a posy of flowers to the Queen.
But, after handing over the flowers, a lance corporal raising his hand to salute the Queen accidentally hits Maisie.
The Queen didn’t seem to notice but, as soon as she left, the soldier immediately turned round to apologise to Maisie and her mum Joanne Gregory.
Mrs Gregory, wife of the Regimental Sergeant Major Martin Gregory, told the soldier her daughter was fine and overcome with tiredness.
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Her daughter went for a cwtch to her auntie.
Her mum explained the family had been up since 4.45am.
Maisie, a pupil at Cwmclydach Infant School in Tonypandy, was looking forward to the royal encounter and had told all her friends at school.
She had waited patiently with her auntie and sister Shauna, 16, while her parents finished the regimental lunch in one of the stadium’s suites.As the Queen came down to be taken away from the stadium by car, Maisie curtseyed and handed over the bunch of flowers.
The Queen told her she looked “very pretty” in her Welsh traditional dress and told her “God Bless”.
Mum Joanne said she was “overcome with emotion” at her family’s role.
Her husband Martin had earlier led the Royal Welsh on a march between Cardiff Castle and into the Millennium Stadium.
He later told Heart Wales: “It was an extremely proud moment.”
He revealed she had not at first been keen on the prospect of wearing traditional clothes to hand over the posy, but added: “She took a bit of convincing initially but when she realised she was going to meet the Queen she was quite happy to wear traditional Welsh clothes.”
