{"id":891991,"date":"2026-04-13T21:20:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/891991\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T21:20:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:20:19","slug":"queen-elizabeth-ii-real-feelings-about-brexit-spilt-by-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/891991\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Elizabeth II \u2018real feelings\u2019 about Brexit spilt by Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Queen Elizabeth two was not entirely happy by the exit of UK from European Union.<\/p>\n<p>Her Majesty who passed away in 2022 expressed her concerns over Brexit to former prime minister of the US, Barack Obama, in a rare confession.<\/p>\n<p>In new book, The Queen and Her Presidents: The Hidden Hand That Shaped History, journalist Susan Page what Her Majesty really thought of the exit.<\/p>\n<p>Page revealed (via the Times): \u201cElizabeth II] said, effectively, &#8216;It&#8217;s hard to understand why a prime minister, who presumably understands politics, would put a public referendum forward that he didn&#8217;t know what the answer would be of such importance.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Queen Elizabeth &#8220;did not believe that as big a decision as the U.K. leaving the European Union &#8216;should have been decided by plebiscite.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Page added: &#8220;Her view on whether to leave the European Union was the subject of endless speculation during her reign and after her death.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The journalist noted: \u201cIn fact, at the fiercest time of the furore, she had expressed her real views to Obama.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queen Elizabeth two was not entirely happy by the exit of UK from European Union. Her Majesty who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":891992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-891991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116399494114991740","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}