'The Queen here' when Elizabeth II rang an Offaly hotel by mistake
almost 3 years in Offaly express
WITH the world watching the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II today, many Offaly people will remember when she accidentally rang Dooly's Hotel in Birr. It was New Year's Day, 1961 and the Queen wished to speak by phone to her sister Margaret who was on holiday in Birr Castle with her new husband Antony