Both Bidens recalled their tea time with the queen last year at Windsor Castle. The president said that the queen reminded him of his late mother and that she kept offering him crumpets. “I kept eating everything she put in front of me.”
to sign separate condolence books before attending a reception at Buckingham Palace that King Charles III hosted for the world leaders attending Monday’s funeral at Westminster Abbey.Both Bidens recalled on SundayThe president, who said after that visit that Elizabeth reminded him of his late mother, said Sunday that she kept offering him crumpets.
The first lady told the Associated Press in a telephone interview after the palace reception that “what really impressed me” about the queen was “just how warm and gracious she was.” “And she said, ‘Let me pour the tea,’ and we said, ‘No, no, let us help,’ and she said ‘Oh, no, no, no, I’ll get this. You sit down,’” Jill Biden said. “And it was just a very special moment with a very special woman.”
“I mean, it just gave me a lump in my throat,” she said, and showed ”how much the people really loved their queen, no matter their ages.”
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