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Throughout her near 70-year reign, reports detailing her many jokes, pithy quips, and astute remarks have surfaced. Below, we gathered 11 of the most entertaining, from a funny dig directed at President George W Bush to a particularly scathing comeback to a cousin-in-law.
Once, when walking the grounds of Balmoral with her protection officer, it’s reported that Queen Elizabeth ran into some American tourists. It became clear they didn’t recognise her. “Have you ever met the Queen?”On the occasion of her 72nd wedding anniversary, the QueenThe Wicked Wit of Queen Elizabeth II
, after the Queen’s cousin-in-law Princess Michael of Kent made a comment on television about how she’d like to shoot the Queen’s Corgis, the monarch is said to have retorted: “They’re better behaved than she is.” At the 2016 Chelsea Flower Show, a gardener told her how lilies of the valley have poisonous traits. The Queen is said to have replied: “I’ve been given two bunches this week. Perhaps they want me dead.”
In 2007, the Queen made an official visit to the White House. During the welcome ceremony, President George W Bushthe Queen helped Americans celebrate their bicentennial in 1776, not 1996. He quickly corrected the error, but the Queen didn’t let him off the hook. At a formal dinner two days later, she began her speech by saying: “I wondered whether I should start this toast by saying, ‘When I was here in 1776...
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