Queen Elizabeth makes first public appearance of 2021and jokes about RAAF ’chasing Russians’

The 94-year-old monarch visited the Commonwealth Air Forces Memorial in Runnymede, Surrey, to mark the centenary of the Royal Australian Air Force. While she has been seen in video calls this year, today is the first time the Monarch has been seen in public since December, when she welcomed the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge back to Windsor after their whistle-stop tour of Britain. It was her first in-person engagement of 2021 - and the first since last October, when she visited the Defence Laboratory at Porton Down alongside her grandson Prince William. The Queen was in typically good spirits today as she laughed and joked with fellow attendees - and even asked an RAAF officer working with Typhoon jets if they were ’being sent off to chase the Russians?’ The Queen asked: ’Are they being sent off to chase the Russians?’ He replied: ’That’s correct ma’am, it’s a lot of fun for us!’ The Queen responded simply, ’Hmm’. Original Article: