A man who told the Queen he was a solar panel engineer when she asked him ‘what do you do?’ was stunned when she later got in touch—and paid him to install some on Balmoral Castle.
Businessman George Goudsmit met the Queen at an event and had a quick ’20 second’ conversation with her.
She asked the 80-year-old what he did and he replied that he made solar panels.
The Managing Director at AES Solar recalls, “As she walked away she turned around and said, ‘maybe I should have solar panels at Balmoral’.”
He was shocked when he was later commissioned to install panels at Balmoral.
George was attending a function on the Isles of Scilly to celebrate the success of his daughter’s business, Little Island Chocolate.
George, who recently received a lifetime achievement award at the Solar and Storage Awards, then wrote to The Royals as a follow up. They later replied and he was asked to carry out the work.
RELATED: Queen is Opening Buckingham Palace Gardens to Picnickers for the First Time This Summer
“This was such big thing for me and our company,” he said.
He and his team soon carried out a survey and put the panels on a large estate house on the property in Royal Deeside, Aberdeenshire, in the heart of the Scottish Highlands.
RELATED: The Queen has Launched Her Own Gin Featuring Botanicals Grown on Her Country Estate
George, of Forres, Scotland, whose goal is to get as much renewable energy into the world as possible, says there is now even discussions of installing them at Buckingham Palace.
It all came to a halt when the pandemic worsened, he said.
“Hopefully this will be something to discuss in the future now that we have already worked with the Royal Family.”
SHINE Some Inspiration on Royal Lovers Everywhere By Sharing…