During the Bicentennial she toured the USS Constitution. A ship that had repeatedly humiliated the Royal Navy during the War of 1812. Upon noticing that one of the ship’s 24 pounder bore the coat of arms of George III, she apparently quipped to Phillip that when they got home she needed to have a word with the Minister of Defence over “foreign arms sales”.
The Queen is a classy lady who “gets it”. As a young lady, she became a truck mechanic and driver during WWII as an example for the people of England, and drove a delivery to Buckingham Palace from her location in the countryside as her final exam. This quite surprised her mother and her advisers, who were debating whether the young princess would be allowed to do her final exam drive into London almost as she arrived.
As shown from your anecdote, she not only “gets it”, she’s quite witty.
Andrea Mitchell clearly doesn’t get it at all.