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‘Gracious!’: The Queen pokes fun at herself during first Zoom call to Australia – Sydney Morning Herald
The Queen has cracked jokes about a new life-sized bronze statue of herself during a rare call.
After seeing footage of the statue standing outside the propertys ground-floor windows, the Queen smiled and said: I would think possibly it might be quite alarming to suddenly see it out of the window. Youd think, gracious, has she arrived here unexpectedly!.
Details of the February 24 call were released following a conversation last week between the monarch and National Health Service officials in Britain. In that call, she made a rare personal intervention by saying people hesitant about coronavirus…
