Schoolgirl activist Malala Yousafzai was reduced to giggles by the Duke of Edinburgh who joked that parents only send children to school to get them out of the house.
The 16-year-old, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in Pakistan for encouraging girls to go to school, was attending a reception at Buckingham Palace with the Duke and the Queen.
Malala said afterwards: "He said parents are tired of children, and that's why they send them to school, and I laughed."
She used her visit to the Palace, as part of a reception for commonwealth, youth and education, to tell the Duke and the Queen why she felt education was so important.
Malala is reduced to giggles at the Duke's joke The Queen described her campaign as "wonderful".
During the reception, at which she was accompanied by her father Ziauddin, she gave the Queen a copy of her book, I Am Malala.
She told the Queen she was passionate about every child having a right to an education, everywhere around the world.
The Taliban's assassination attempt - which was in response to Malala's challenge to a strict form of Islamic Sharia law which forbids women's education - left her so close to death she had to be airlifted to Britain for life-saving treatment.
After she arrived in the UK, she was treated at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham and has now settled in the city with her family as it is too dangerous for her to return.
Since her recovery, she has made a speech to the United Nations and narrowly missed out on winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
Malala hands a copy of her book I Am Malala to the Queen Princess Beatrice and the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester were also present at the reception which was attended by 350 guests from academic institutions around the world.
Beatrice shook Malala's hand and told her: "It's so wonderful to meet you. What you've achieved is just so incredible. I'm very honoured to be meeting you."
She told Malala that her mother, Sarah, Duchess of York, would like to meet her, adding: "She has been completely moved by your strength and what you've achieved."
Malala admitted she had been unsure of the etiquette surrounding her introduction to the Queen.
She said: "I was really confused before meeting her, because some people said you have to curtsey, and some people said you should not talk until she talk.
Princess Beatrice tells Malala she is honoured to meet her "Then, when I met her, it was quite good and she was really nice. She talked to me in a very friendly kind of way."
Malala said she was hopeful the Queen and the UK Government would help her campaign for education.
Speaking afterwards she urged young people to "respect" every child's right to an education and give it the importance it deserves. Also to stand up for those who do not have the same opportunities.
"We must not be silent," she said. "We must raise our voice."
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