apparently the Queen has a better sense of humor than the press does in Britain....see the following....
In Virginia, she visited Jamestown, America’s first permanent English settlement, returning to a spot that she had seen as queen in 1957, when Bush was not yet a teenager.
In Kentucky, she attended for the first time America’s most famous derby, after countless scores of equestrian events at home in Britain.
In Maryland, she watched as astronauts told by video-link of their work aboard the International Space Station while she visited NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
In Washington, she honored American soldiers at the National World War II Memorial, visited sick children at a hospital and stood graciously as the president started to suggest she had lived in the 18th century.
And on Tuesday night, before boarding a plane to take her back to England, the queen began a toast carefully crafted in the kind of humor favored by Bush.
“I wondered whether I should start this toast by saying, ‘When I was here in 1776, ‘” she said to laughter.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070509/D8P0NA5O0.html
snickers...........
Her majesty loves a gaffe and repartee. She has a very quick wit.
I admire our president and Elizabeth.
I heard a story about how a petty officer had disconnected the toilet plumbing on the Royal Yacht Briannia , because it had been plugged. Not wanting to inconvenience Her Majesty who was alone in the Royal Stateroom at the time, he simply put a bucket under the toilet outlet, while taking the plugged section of pipe to the ships shop for service.
Upon his return , the petty officer noticed that the bucket contained a rather large, consistant royal turd.This turd was dried , shellacked and mounted on a plaque, and hung on the Petty Officer's mess wall on the Britannia, with a suitable caption.
Months later, the Queen inspected her ship and came upon the worshipful turd, and indicated to her sailors that ocassionally it was necessary for her to take a Royal $hit. This royal remark was greeted by gales of laughter even though the mess staff were at attention.
A woman with that kind of humor inside her military family , would hardly be offended by our presidential gaffe.