Possible Clues:

• Made a typo
• Earned a scorecard 'E'
• Wrote "mispelled," say
• Hesitantly stated a colour and was wrong
• Socialist supporting Queen is messed up
• Guessed wrong, e.g
• Suffered from fat finger
• Was immoral
• Tory patrician in the East End, we hear, made a bloomer
• Queen, meeting communist, was mistaken