Queen 'sorry' for child's swan bite

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Elishia Stevenson wrote to the Queen after she was pecked during a visit to Coronation Park in Helston, Cornwall.

The youngster, who decorated her letter with flowers and a picture of a swan with a sad face, sent her letter after mother Rachel, 36, explained that swans belonged to the Queen.

Mrs Stevenson, from Helston, said Elishia was feeding the bird when she came running back in tears.

"She asked me who owned the swans, she wanted to ask them to tell the swans off for being naughty," she told the Western Morning News."

Elishia did not wait long for her reply, which came from the Queen's lady in waiting.

It read: "The Queen wishes me to write and thank you for your letter which you have sent to Her Majesty.

"The Queen thought it kind of you to write to her and was sorry to hear about the swan."