Ladies in Waiting for Britain's Queen Elizabeth say they are in the "happiness business".
Broadcaster Andrew Marr has followed the monarch for a documentary to mark her Diamond Jubilee in June and says he found there was always a "lot of laughter" around her.
He recalled: "When a dress designer arrived from Scotland, determined to measure her in person, she entered cheerfully into the spirit of it, sticking out her limbs - 'leg out!', 'arm out!'. There's a lot of laughter.
One of her Ladies in Waiting told me, as they entered another civic hall to shrill cheering, 'We're in the happiness business.' "
In making the documentary, 'Diamond Queen', Andrew found most people to praise the queen as "witty" and a clever conversationalist.
He added to Radio Times magazine: "I found very many people - politicians, civil servants, friends of the family - talking at length about how witty the queen is.
"[Politician] Douglas Hurd pointed out how clever she was at nudging conversations that were becoming tricky onto a different track with hardly anyone noticing."
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