Joe Biden says the Queen ‘reminds me of my mother’ after royal reception with ‘generous’ monarch at Windsor Castle

PRESIDENT Joe Biden mentioned the Queen reminded him of his mom – after taking tea with the monarch at Windsor.

Mr Biden – who's 78 to the Queen’s 95 – visited Her Majesty with spouse Jill on Sunday after attending the G7 summit in Cornwall.

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After their assembly, Mr Biden informed reporters: “I don’t think she’d be insulted but she reminded me of my mother, the look of her and just the generosity.”

And he mentioned she’d requested about Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom Mr Biden has a gathering with subsequent week.

“She wanted to know what the two leaders that I – the one I’m about to meet with, Mr Putin, and she wanted to know about Xi Jinping,” the president mentioned.

“I said I wish we could stay longer, maybe we could hold the cars up a minute, and stuff.

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“Anyway, she was very gracious.”

He confirmed he’s invited the Queen to the White House.

“She said, ‘What’s it like in the White House?’ I said, ‘Well it’s magnificent but it’s a lot of people’,” he added.

It typically is frowned upon for anybody to disclose the contents of their non-public talks with the Queen.

The Bidens arrived at Heathrow in Air Force One this afternoon earlier than stepping out of a Range Rover at the citadel at round 5pm.

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Despite the sweltering warmth, the Queen stood as she awaited her friends, and was seen smiling at her guards.

She wore a summery pink Stewart Parvin costume, a hat by Rachel Trevor-Morgan and the diamond Jardine star brooch, believed to be one of her favorite items of jewelry.

Mrs Biden, in a lightweight blue go well with, held her husband’s hand as they walked in direction of the citadel.

They greeted the Queen on a dais in Windsor’s quadrangle earlier than a Guard of Honour gave a royal salute as the US nationwide anthem was performed.

Mr and Mrs Biden put their fingers on their hearts as the anthem rang out.

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Biden took off his aviator sun shades earlier than finishing up an inspection of the guard and watching a army march-past.

After the ceremony, he walked alongside the Queen, who was heard to say: “You completed your talks.”

He replied: “Yes, we did.”

Before going inside, the Queen launched the Bidens to her lady-in-waiting Dame Annabel Whitehead.

The monarch has now acquired 4 presidents at Windsor, with the Bidens following the Trumps in 2018, the Obamas in 2016, President George W. Bush and his spouse in 2008 and the Reagans in 1982.

During her 69 years on the throne, there have been 14 US presidents. Her Majesty has met all however Lyndon Johnson.

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Mr and Mrs Biden met the Queen for the first time on Friday when she attended a reception for G7 leaders at the Eden Project.

The Bidens, alongside with Emmanuel Macron, had been left chuckling as Her Majesty cracked jokes throughout the occasion, asking them: “Are you supposed to be looking as if you’re enjoying yourself?” as they posed for a photograph.

Their newest assembly after the Queen acquired her official birthday reward from the nation’s armed forces – a ceremony of pomp and pageantry in her honour – which was held at the citadel.

The conventional Trooping the Colour ceremony, which is generally staged in London, was dominated out for the second successive yr as a result of of the risk of coronavirus.

Meanwhile, Sunday’s carefully-choreographed preparations to welcome Mr Biden echo the welcome given to Donald Trump three years in the past, when the controversial then-US president travelled to Windsor to satisfy the monarch.

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Queen welcomes Joe & Jill Biden to Windsor Castle for tea and guard of honour

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Trump and the Queen had afternoon tea collectively in the citadel’s Oak Room, with the assembly lasting longer than anticipated.

It was attributable to final round half-an-hour, however overran by virtually 20 minutes.

In 2008, when then US president George W Bush met with the monarch at Windsor, he loved a conventional English afternoon unfold of tea, small sandwiches and muffins in the White Drawing Room.

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