I do know how Lindy answered the king. He explained how did it — an arrangement involving a length of rubber tubing and a soda bottle, as I recall. Moreover, he told how he pitched the bottle while still over the Atlantic. He was amused, not offended, by the question.
Of course he was not offended - he’s not “royal.” But “royalty” can say and do as it pleases without protocol advisors worrying that it will offend a “commoner.” And “royalty” takes offense at the slightes provocation - just to “prove” an unearned, unwarranted superioirty. You should have seen the disapproving look on the Queen’s face when Nancy Pelosi made the gigantic faux pas of extending her hand in greeting - and again when Pres. Bush misspoke while reading his speech. O’Reilly has a body language expert analyze the Queen’s facial expressions and such on both these occasions. I know the Queen thinks she’s all that and a bag of chips (or is it crisps) but to me she is just a mere mortal, just another human being. And neither Nancy Pelosi nor Pres. Bush did anything to warrant her “disapproval.”