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Queen Elizabeth caught on camera bad-mouthing Chinese officials at Buckingham Palace

Published 09:06 11 May 2016 BST

Updated 10:51 11 May 2016 BST

Conor Heneghan
Queen Elizabeth caught on camera bad-mouthing Chinese officials at Buckingham Palace

Homenews

Let’s just say that one didn’t call them "a great bunch of guys".

Queen Elizabeth has been caught calling Chinese officials “very rude” by her own cameraman in an incident that won’t do much to help relations between China and the UK. Her Majesty was heard to make the remarks at a recent garden party for her 90th birthday while in conversation with Metropolitan Police Commander Lucy D'Orsi, who was in charge of security during the visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife last October. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTlpDvKr2Kc Clip via Press Association The footage was released to broadcasters and appeared online overnight. It comes in the wake of footage showing Prime Minister David Cameron referring to Nigeria and Afghanistan as “fantastically corrupt countries" in conversation with the Queen ahead of the international anti-corruption summit this week. https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/730055092318015488 Needless to say, this news has caused some amused and amusing reaction: https://twitter.com/keziz/status/730297051813191680 https://twitter.com/StigAbell/status/730301425499181056 https://twitter.com/PhilipSerrell/status/730292518357708801 https://twitter.com/GusGowland/status/730285905295085573   https://twitter.com/420Carbonara/status/730305208073506816 https://twitter.com/peter_tl/status/730253462957527043 Though this Des'ree parody account probably sums it up best: https://twitter.com/thenewsbydes/status/730283622117347328
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Queen Elizabeth caught on camera bad-mouthing Chinese officials at Buckingham Palace