{"id":212266,"date":"2026-04-28T04:39:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/212266\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T04:39:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:39:58","slug":"the-last-time-the-british-monarch-visited-d-c-and-what-the-queen-said-to-president-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/212266\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Time the British Monarch Visited D.C.\u2014and What the Queen Said to President Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Elizabeth did not forget the President\u2019s brief slip-up, leading with it when she later delivered remarks during a dinner at the ambassador\u2019s residence in Washington. The dinner was organized by the Queen in return for a white-tie dinner, the <a href=\"https:\/\/georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov\/visit\/uk\/2007\/\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">first of its kind<\/a> hosted by the Bush family at the White House.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">\u201cI wondered whether I should start this toast saying that I was here in 1776,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=eJvhaIYRTi8\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a> Elizabeth, prompting raucous laughter from Bush and the other attendees.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">During his own speech, the President replied: &#8220;Your Majesty, I can&#8217;t top that one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">The moment is often revisited as a strong example of Elizabeth\u2019s ability to adapt to the moment and inject whimsy into her speeches.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">\u201cShe had a strong sense of humor, especially when there were moments at these carefully scripted events that did not go according to plan,\u201d Harris says.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">\u201cShe knew how to make jokes that were exactly the right tone, where, even if she was poking fun a little bit at somebody, she would do it so gently,\u201d Meinzer adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elizabeth did not forget the President\u2019s brief slip-up, leading with it when she later delivered remarks during a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,5296,63,122,124,123,486],"class_list":["post-212266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news-desk","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-royal-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}