Malala Yousafzai was reduced to fits of laughter on Friday as she met Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip at the Buckingham Palace.
The 16-year-old, who was shot by the Taliban for championing girls’ rights to an education, met Queen Elizabeth at a reception for youth, education and the Commonwealth.
The activist survived being shot in the head on her school bus on October 9 last year and was sent for treatment to Britain where she now lives.
Malala, accompanied by her father, gave the queen a copy of her autobiography, I Am Malala, telling her, “It is a great honour for me to be here, and I wanted to present you with this book.”