Even a bear misses the queen.

At least Paddington Bear tweeted a thank you to Her Majesty on Thursday evening: "Thank you Ma'm, for everything." The famous bear with his red floppy hat had already said the same words in the short film made for the platinum throne jubilee of Elizabeth II. had arisen.

The Queen welcomed the famous children's book character to Buckingham Palace for tea and revealed to her guest what she kept in her handbag: a sandwich with jam "for later".

The two then banged their spoons on their cups to the beat of the Queen classic "We Will Rock You," which was actually heard outside the palace walls by tens of thousands of revelers.

Peter Philipp Schmitt

Editor in the department "Germany and the World".

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The clip showed once again how much humor the queen possessed.

Already in 2012 for the Olympic Games in London, she had agreed to a film that no one would have believed her capable of: Daniel Craig as James Bond and thus as Her Majesty's secret agent picked up his boss at the palace to take a short helicopter flight with her to parachute over the stadium.

After the supposed jump, the queen appeared in the same dress on the honorary stand to declare the games open.

The Queen, Chancellor Olaf Scholz wrote on Thursday at her death, will be missed, "not least her wonderful sense of humor".

However, she has only shown it publicly in recent years.

The fact that she could imitate other people and voices privately and imitate them almost perfectly was rumored, but only close friends and family members were able to experience her slapstick interludes.

A very quick-witted queen

Often, however, the rogue flashed out with her, also because the queen was extremely quick-witted and quick-witted.

And that even at an official dinner with an American president.

In a speech in 2007, George W. Bush was pleased that the Queen had already been present at the 200th anniversary of the independence of the United States in 1776. Only then did she look at him, “like only a mother her child can look at," as Bush later said with a grin, before beginning her own speech: "When I was here in 1776 .

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Taking a group picture with leaders at the 2021 G-7 Summit in Cornwall, the Queen caused a laugh when she asked: "Now shall we pretend we like this?" When she was at the Chelsea Flower in 2016 Show was told by a gardener that lilies of the valley had previously been used as a poison, Elizabeth II said wittily: "I've already had two bouquets this week, apparently someone wants to see me dead."

While the Queen took her duties very seriously, she often took herself less seriously than it appeared.

In 2018 she gave the BBC information about the Royal Collection and the Crown Jewels.

It was also about the Imperial State Crown, the king's crown, which Elisabeth described as "unwieldy" in the documentary.

You always have to sit up straight with her, i.e. hold up the written speech because you can’t bend your head.

"If you do that, she falls down or you break your neck." Even on her 70th anniversary of the throne, she made a whole room laugh when she didn't want to cut her cake.

"I just stick the knife in and someone else can do the rest."

Perhaps the funniest story about her is told from the place where she spent her final days, at Balmoral Castle in Scotland.

There, the queen could usually move about unhindered.

But once she ran into a group of American tourists who were exploring the property with a security guard that rainy day.

One of the visitors asked the woman in the raincoat and headscarf if she had ever seen the Queen here.

"No," Elizabeth II replied, pointing to her official companion.

"But he does."