US President Joe Biden said Queen Elizabeth reminded him of his mother shortly after the two met at Windsor Castle on Sunday.
Biden’s praising remarks for the British Monarch came after US President and first lady Jill Biden met Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle. Their private meeting which was held on Sunday came at the conclusion of the Group of Seven leaders’ summit.
The Queen hosted President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden at Windsor Castle, her royal residence near London. Biden flew to London after wrapping up his participation in a three-day summit of leaders of the world’s wealthy democracies in Cornwall, England.
During his visit, The US President took part in an Inspection of the Guard of Honor and then joined the queen and first lady to watch a military march.
After the visit followed by tea with the 95-year-old Queen at Windsor Castle, Joe Biden told reporters: “I don’t think she’d be insulted but she reminded me of my mother, the look of her and just the generosity.”
The President told the reporters that he had invited the Queen to the White House and also admired the royalty of the castle.
“We could fit the White House in the courtyard, he said.
He also mentioned that she had asked about China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin as they had tea at Windsor Castle on Sunday.
Biden is scheduled to meet with Putin in a bilateral summit in Switzerland after attending a NATO summit in Brussels which is to be held on Monday.
While it generally is frowned upon for anyone to reveal the contents of their private talks with the Queen, Biden’s first time meeting the queen came in November 1982, when as a US senator he travelled to the United Kingdom for a meeting of the British-American Parliamentary Group.
The Bidens became the fourth president and first lady the queen has received at Windsor. The others are Donald Trump in 2018, Barack Obama in 2016, George W. Bush in 2008 and Ronald Reagan in 1982.
Overall, Biden is the 13th American president to meet the monarch. President Lyndon B. Johnson is the only one who did not make her acquaintance while he was in office.
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