Members of a Moray charity are fair tricket about getting an affa bonny card from the Queen after writing to her in Doric.
The Keith Cancer Link sent birthday greetings to Her Majesty in their native tongue after learning the monarch uses the dialect when she is staying at Balmoral.
Warm wishes from the group were written on a sheet of paper and folded inside a special card addressed to “Yer Majesty”.
Group chairwoman, Adeline Reid, said: “We have fun with Doric at the cancer support group.
“It’s what we speak in the north-east so it just seemed natural to send it.
“I remembered reading that whenever she was staying in the north-east that she always used it. She speaks in Doric while she’s out shopping in Ballater, saying ‘fit like’ and all those kind of things.
“I never expected to get anything back. She must have got thousands of cards.”
Mrs Reid’s birthday message to the Queen read: “Lang may you reign oer us and keep in guid health.”
The Keith resident is in line for a meeting with Her Majesty in the near future.
The cancer group stalwart will be honoured with an MBE in Edinburgh next month for her 34 years of service to the charity she founded.
However, despite the Doric birthday card going down well with the Queen, Mrs Reid is not prepared to test the monarch’s mastery of the dialect.
She said: “It all depends. She might speak to me about Keith Cancer Link. If she mention’s it then fair enough.”
