Queen Elizabeth caught on camera calling Chinese officials 'very rude'


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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Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.
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