article_snippet: Billy with the Queen Mother on the Queen Mother 88th birthday in 1988 (right).
article_snippet: I thought the Queen Mother had left instructions to that effect
article_snippet: Billy was an amusing man with a remarkable history and Billy was invited to an endless series of parties, which gave Billy a faint glow of the life Billy had once enjoyed with the Queen Mother.
article_snippet: Despite being regaled as the grand old man of Royal service, Billy friends say that Billy became a humbler figure in exile.
article_snippet: In Billy most bitter moments, Billy recalled how, in the Queen Mother’s last months, when she was too confused to know what was going on around she, Billy became so frustrated by repeated refusals to let Billy see she that Billy became hysterical.
article_snippet: Close friends: The loyal servant dancing with the Queen Mother at Balmoral as Prince Charles watches .
article_snippet: the Queen Mother (pictured with Queen Elizabeth, left, and Princess Margaret, right) had told Billy to 'never trust anyone'
article_snippet: I was upset and The Queen Mother (pictured with Queen Elizabeth, left, and Princess Margaret, right)
article_snippet: Billy, more than anyone, should have heeded the advice given to Billy by the Queen Mother, who told Billy at the beginning of some members of the Royal household relationship: