Queen Elizabeth was caught lambasting the behavior of Chinese officials who visited England last year on a state visit with President Xi Jinping. While speaking to Metropolitan Police Commander Lucy D'Orsi at a garden party, the Queen replied "oh, bad luck" upon hearing the senior police officer had overseen security during President Xi's UK visit.
D'Orsi goes on to call the state visit a "testing time" to which the Queen adds, "They were very rude to the ambassador."
"They were. It was very rude and undiplomatic, I thought," D'Orsi agrees.
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"Extraordinary," says the Queen.
The Chinese state visit has since been called "extremely successful" by a Buckingham Palace spokesman, who also declined to comment on the Queen's private conversations. Still, with a cameraman attending the garden party to capture footage for UK broadcasts, the conversation clearly wasn't as private as Buckingham Palace would have hoped. Watch the footage, below. Jeva Lange
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