The Bidens turned the fourth president and first girl the queen has obtained at Windsor.
London:
U.S. President Joe Biden mentioned Britain’s Queen Elizabeth reminded him of his mom and that she had requested about China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin as that they had tea at Windsor Castle on Sunday.
Biden lavished reward on the 95-year-old British monarch after their non-public assembly which got here on the conclusion of the Group of Seven leaders’ summit at which he known as for concerted motion on China and forward of a gathering with Putin on Wednesday.
“I don’t think she’d be insulted but she reminded me of my mother, the look of her and just the generosity,” Biden, 78, informed reporters shortly earlier than departing London.
“She’s extremely gracious, that’s not surprising, but we had a great talk. She wanted to know what the two leaders that I — the one I’m about to meet with, Mr Putin, and she wanted to know about Xi Jinping, and we had a long talk.”
The monarch, attired in a brilliant pink floral outfit, had warmly greeted Biden and his spouse Jill within the Quadrangle of the fortress, house to the royal household for almost 1,000 years, the place they had been handled to a style of British pomp.
The president inspected a Guard of Honour shaped of The Queen’s Company First Battalion Grenadier Guards, which gave a Royal Salute, and the U.S. National Anthem was performed earlier than they entered the fortress for tea.
“I said I wish we could stay longer, maybe we could hold the cars up a minute, and stuff. Anyway, she was very gracious,” mentioned the president who confirmed he had invited the monarch to the White House.
The queen had already met the Bidens on their go to to Britain. She hosted a reception for leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy nations and their spouses on Friday night time within the southwestern English county of Cornwall the place the three-day summit was held.
Ahead of that, Jill Biden mentioned that they had been wanting ahead to assembly the queen and that it was an thrilling a part of the go to for them.
The Bidens turned the fourth president and first girl the queen has obtained at Windsor, following the Trumps in 2018, the Obamas in 2016, President George W. Bush and his spouse in 2008 and the Reagans in 1982.
During her 69 years on the British throne, the longest reign of any English monarch, there have been 14 U.S. presidents, of which Elizabeth has met all bar Lyndon Johnson.
Despite the loss in April of Prince Philip, her 99-year-old husband of greater than 70 years, and her age, the queen has proven her willpower to hold on along with her official duties as head of state through the high-profile G7 gathering.
After internet hosting the leaders on Friday the place she cracked a joke through the official photocall, she provoked extra laughter at one other official engagement for a neighborhood challenge instantly afterwards when she reduce a cake with an extended ceremonial sword.
On Saturday, she was again in Windsor for a army parade to mark her official birthday, the primary one she has marked with out Philip.
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