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However, it is believed she wasn\u2019t a massive fan of him. This is because Her Majesty once made a four-word comment<\/a> that was seen to be a dig at Putin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n This was revealed in 2022 by the UK\u2019s then Press Secretary David Blunkett, who had once seen Putin and the late Queen together.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Speaking to the BBC<\/a> in the weeks after Russia<\/a>\u2019s invasion into Ukraine<\/a>, Blunkett said: \u201cThe only time I met Vladimir Putin was back in 2003 on an official visit and my then dog barked very loudly. I did apologise to the Queen who was obviously hosting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think I am giving anything away when I said, \u2018Sorry your Majesty about the dog barking\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n She replied with an interesting four-word comment. Blunkett said: \u201c She said, \u2018Dogs have interesting instincts, don\u2019t they?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n This was believed to be a hint that the dog was not happy to be near Putin, with dogs believed to be good judges of character.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n It is also believed that Her Majesty was left waiting for 14 minutes for Putin before an engagement, which Her Majesty would no doubt have not been happy about.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The late Queen herself never aired her personal views on Putin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.express.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" However, it is believed she wasn\u2019t a massive fan of him. This is because Her Majesty once made a four-word comment that was seen to be a dig at Putin. This was revealed in 2022 by the UK\u2019s then Press Secretary David Blunkett, who had once seen Putin and the late Queen together. Speaking to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2260689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[24085,437851,436336,437852,437850],"class_list":["post-2260688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-queen-elizabeth-ii","tag-queen-elizabeth-ii-comment","tag-queen-elizabeth-ii-royal-family","tag-queen-elizabeth-ii-russia","tag-queen-elizabeth-ii-vladimir-putin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Queen-Elizabeth-IIs-incredible-4-word-judgment-of-Vladimir-Putin.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2260688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2260690,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260688\/revisions\/2260690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2260689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2260688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2260688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2260688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}