{"id":111931,"date":"2021-08-05T07:15:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T07:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=111931"},"modified":"2021-08-05T07:58:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T07:58:39","slug":"how-wallabies-great-nicked-the-queens-gin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=111931","title":{"rendered":"How Wallabies great nicked the Queen&#039;s gin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Australia&#x27;s leading try-scorer at Rugby World Cups, Drew Mitchell always had an eye for a gap.<\/p>\n<p>But now the former Wallabies star has come clean on one of his lesser-known achievements &#8211; nabbing Queen Elizabeth&#x27;s drink and polishing it off on her home patch at Windsor Castle.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell revealed his shenanigans <a href=\"https:\/\/play.stan.com.au\/programs\/3042334\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"on the latest edition of Stan Sport&#x27;s Rugby Heaven.\">on the latest edition of Stan Sport&#x27;s <em>Rugby Heaven<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was the winger&#x27;s first time meeting Her Royal Highness while on tour with the Wallabies and he enjoyed an orange juice before things got interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Take it away, Drew.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stan.com.au\/sport?utm_source=wwos&amp;utm_medium=partner&amp;utm_campaign=rugby_article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Watch every match of the Bledisloe Cup and The Rugby Championship with live, ad-free and on-demand coverage starting this Saturday 7 August\u00a0on\u00a0Stan Sport\"><strong><em>Watch every match of the Bledisloe Cup and The Rugby Championship with live, ad-free and on-demand coverage starting this Saturday August\u00a07 on\u00a0Stan Sport<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"db25bbde-e1b4-431e-9610-efb26e3a62c9\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/db25bbde-e1b4-431e-9610-efb26e3a62c9\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1192\" data-height=\"645\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;It was early afternoon, I went to put it (empty glass) on a butler&#x27;s tray and there was only one glass on there,&quot; Mitchell explained.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I went to put it on and he said &#x27;excuse me sir, this is Her Majesty&#x27;s drink.&#x27; I was like &#x27;oh, what is this, soda water?&#x27; He said &#x27;no, no, this is straight gin with a dash of vermouth.&#x27;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I thought that was a bit of an overshare already, that the butler&#x27;s telling me what the Queen&#x27;s drinking. But I watched him walk over and hand it to the Queen and she just took it and had a sip and didn&#x27;t batter an eyelid.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I thought &#x27;OK&#x27; and just kept watching and someone came over and noted to her that you&#x27;ve got to come into this room to speak to some other dignitaries.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/rugby\/wallabies-team-named-to-play-all-blacks-in-first-bledisloe-cup-test-jordan-petaia\/dee508aa-8600-466c-bd38-28746da1abcc\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"READ MORE: Wallabies recall Petaia for banned Koroibete\"><strong>Wallabies recall Petaia for banned Koroibete<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/rugby\/bledisloe-cup-2021-news-australia-rugby-coach-dave-rennie-guitar-talent\/5852752c-6efd-4b10-89bb-61151aac7b99\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Rennie shows off guitar skills in Aussie camp\"><strong>Rennie shows off guitar skills in Aussie camp<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/rugby\/all-blacks-team-named-to-play-wallabies-in-first-bledisloe-cup-test\/46437847-29d4-4aaf-ad4c-e043d5412de7\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"All Blacks hand Ioane brothers starts for opener\"><strong>All Blacks hand Ioane brothers starts for opener<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"8e382d5b-dfe5-4588-9627-fc26468fbd89\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/8e382d5b-dfe5-4588-9627-fc26468fbd89\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1183\" data-height=\"675\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mitchell then watched the Queen pop her nearly-full glass on a cabinet as he employed the services of great mate Matt Giteau to execute his masterplan.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I just went &#x27;Gits, come with me, like I need a blocker here.&#x27; So he ran a blocker and I grabbed the Queen&#x27;s drink and had a sip,&quot; Mitchell confessed.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Look, it was super strong &#8211; straight gin, dash of vermouth &#8211; and I just went &#x27;I can&#x27;t be the only one who gets caught drinking the Queen&#x27;s drink. So &#x27;Gits, you have a sip&#x27; and I think we gave it to one other person but I wanted to finish because I wanted to get her backwash or her dregs or something, so to speak.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"30fabf77-873b-4619-a6b7-0d71372c3e09\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/30fabf77-873b-4619-a6b7-0d71372c3e09\" alt=\"Queen Elizabeth book\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"682\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mitchell did share the hilarious tale at the time, when social media wasn&#x27;t quite the behemoth it is today.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;So my Facebook back in those days was, &#x27;basically today I kissed the Queen.&#x27;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Gits was my blocker, he ran a blocker and we got away with it, probably until now. I won&#x27;t be let back in England anymore.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img data-video-id=\"6266440054001\" src=\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2021\/08\/373109\/pickerimage.jpg\" alt=\"Rennie gets on the guitar\" data-vms-id=\"ref:ckrwov4g1001p0io06sk6tt94\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!\"><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>As Australia&#x27;s leading try-scorer at Rugby World Cups, Drew Mitchell always had an eye for a gap. 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