Football legend Michael Owen was “mortified” after being “b*****ked by the Queen” at Royal Ascot .
The former England striker and stable owner told how he put his foot in his mouth during a day at the races with wife Louise.
BT Sport pundit Owen, 39, said: “When she [The Queen] walked into the royal lift there were perhaps 15 of us outside.
“‘Come on,’ she said, ‘We can all squeeze in’.
“I obeyed – taking my hat off as I thought that correct etiquette.
“‘If you’d put your hat back on,’ she said, voice raised, ‘we might all fit in!’
“I sheepishly put my hat on. I was mortified. To this day I have absolutely no idea if she was joking.
“Louise was nudging me from the other side trying not to laugh because I’d been b****ked by the Queen.”
In his new book Reboot, Owen also told of a pre-race meal at Windsor Castle.
He added: “I was careful to hold my fork in the correct hand and so on.
“I needn’t have worried. The Queen was throwing bits of starter to her corgis!”
