{"id":75730,"date":"2016-05-11T08:08:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T12:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=75730"},"modified":"2025-01-07T04:09:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T09:09:45","slug":"queen-elizabeth-ii-chinese-officials-rude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/05\/11\/queen-elizabeth-ii-chinese-officials-rude\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Elizabeth II: Chinese officials were ‘very rude’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LONDON \u2014 Queen Elizabeth II has been overheard on video calling Chinese officials \u201cvery rude\u201d in a conversation with a senior police officer at a Buckingham Palace event.<\/p>\n

The comments, made Tuesday, were unusual because the 90-year-old monarch rarely comments publicly on political matters, and media accompanying her are asked not to eavesdrop on private conversations.<\/p>\n

The incident came hours after Prime Minister David Cameron was caught on microphone calling Nigeria and Afghanistan \u201cfantastically corrupt.\u201d<\/p>\n

The queen’s comments, recorded by the palace’s official cameraman at a palace garden party and distributed to broadcasters, dealt with a rare state visit by China’s leaders in October, an event that required months of detailed planning and was hailed by both sides at the time as an unqualified success.<\/p>\n

The video captured police Commander Lucy D’Orsi telling the queen that arranging the state visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping in October had been a \u201ctesting time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elizabeth responded: \u201cThey were very rude to the ambassador.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked about the queen’s remarks at a daily news briefing in Beijing on Wednesday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang declined to address them directly, but said Xi had made a \u201cvery successful visit\u201d to Britain last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe working teams from both sides made huge efforts to make this possible. This effort has been highly recognized by both China and Britain,\u201d Lu said.<\/p>\n

Despite Lu’s comments, China appeared to regard the queen’s comments as sensitive. Information about the remarks were difficult to find on China’s heavily censored Internet and government monitors cut the signal of the British Broadcasting Company when it reported on the comments.<\/p>\n

In the video, an official introduced the queen to D’Orsi and explains that the officer was in charge of policing for the visit. The queen responded: \u201cOh! Bad luck.\u201d<\/p>\n

The official tells the queen that D’Orsi had been \u201cseriously undermined by the Chinese\u201d in the handling of the visit.<\/p>\n

When D’Orsi asked if the queen knew it had been a \u201ctesting time,\u201d the monarch interjected: \u201cI did.\u201d<\/p>\n

The officer recalled a moment when Chinese officials walked out of a meeting with Barbara Woodward, British ambassador to China, in which the Chinese told the Brits the trip was off.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey walked out on both of us,\u201d D’Orsi said.<\/p>\n

\u201cExtraordinary,\u201d the queen said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was very rude and undiplomatic I thought,\u201d D’Orsi said.<\/p>\n

D’Orsi’s mother is by her side during the encounter and tells the queen she is very proud of her daughter.<\/p>\n

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Both the Metropolitan police and the palace refused to comment on what they described as private conversations. The palace stressed that Xi’s visit had been \u201cextremely successful.\u201d<\/p>\n

British officials laid on dollops of pomp and splendor \u2014 including a state banquet at the palace \u2014 during Xi’s four-day state visit to nurture the U.K.’s developing economic relationship with China.<\/p>\n

Xi was welcomed with a 41-gun artillery salute, and taken to Buckingham Palace in a royal gilded carriage drawn by white horses.<\/p>\n

The queen gave Xi and his wife a personal tour of the Royal Collection at the palace. She gave them a special collection of Shakespeare’s sonnets and spoke glowingly of the two countries’ \u201cglobal partnership\u201d at the elaborate state dinner, which featured turbot and venison.<\/p>\n

There were no public hints of tensions at the time, although Prince Charles \u2014 the heir to the throne, and a supporter of the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama shunned by the Chinese \u2014 did not attend the gala banquet.<\/p>\n

The two countries signed more than 30 billion pounds ( billion) in trade agreements during the trip, and Cameron said Britain would be China’s \u201cpartner of choice\u201d in the West.<\/p>\n

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British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said the visit \u201cgot a bit stressful on both sides\u201d but had been \u201chighly successful.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that \u201cour relationship with China is very strong and has been greatly strengthened by the success of that visit.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is not the first time British royals have been caught making undiplomatic remarks about the Chinese. Prince Charles branded Chinese diplomats \u201cappalling old waxworks\u201d in a private journal entry that had described the 1997 ceremony to hand Hong Kong back to Chinese rule.<\/p>\n

In 1986, Prince Philip reportedly told British exchange students in China they would get \u201cslitty eyes\u201d if they stayed in China too long. In a documentary marking his 90th birthday, Philip said: \u201cBut for one particular reporter who overheard it, it wouldn’t have come out.\u201d<\/p>\n

At another palace reception Tuesday, cameras recorded Cameron talking about an anti-corruption summit in London, which he will chair.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’ve got some leaders of some fantastically corrupt countries coming to Britain,\u201d Cameron told the monarch.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNigeria and Afghanistan \u2014 possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Afghanistan’s Ashraf Ghani and Nigeria’s Muhammadu Buhari are due to attend the London summit and each has contributed an essay on his efforts to tackle graft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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