While well wishes from all over the globe pour in, information about her relationships with former presidents reemerge.

However, there’s one former president who wasted no timepaying tributeat the time of Her Majesty’s death.

He recalled the first time he met the queen was on a visit to London.

Barack Obama and Queen Elizabeth at event

“She reminded me very much of my grandmother,” Obama told the BBC with a chuckle.

“Very gracious, but also no-nonsense.

Wry sense of humor.

Barack Obama and Queen Elizabeth share a smile

She could not have been more kind or thoughtful to me and Michelle.”