The Queen confused Russian President Vladimir Putin with BBC journalist Andrew Marr
Andrew Marr has revealed that during the Russian President’s visit the Queen had to constantly remind herself she was talking to a foreign leader and not “that chap from the BBC"
THE QUEEN once almost confused a BBC journalist with Vladimir Putin during a state visit, it emerged last night/Wed.
Veteran journalist Andrew Marr has revealed that during the Russian President’s visit the Queen had to constantly remind herself she was talking to a foreign leader and not “that chap from the BBC.”
The Queen told an aid she found it difficult to tell the two apart after an open carriage ride with Putin from Parliament to Buckingham Palace.
The two leaders were spotted talking “vigorously” alongside a translator as they travelled up the Mall, in London.
Marr told a Royal Television Society event: “She and Putin were in the carriage coming from here [Parliament] to Buckingham Palace and because it as an open carriage and there was a translator everyone could see them taking as they went up the Mall.”
Marr said a palace contact told him a Royal aid had later said to the Queen: “You’re Majesty, you were talking to the Russian President very vigorously – can I ask what you were talking about,”