Still, she left Obama with a big impression, and it’s one he hasn’t forgotten.

“I really love the Queen,” Obama supposedly said at the time.

“She’s just like Toot, my grandmother.

Queen Elizabeth in pink

All about what she thinks.

She doesn’t suffer fools.”

Obama’s grandmother helped raise himand helped him get through private school in Hawaii.

Madelyn Dunham, Barack Obama’s grandmother

She died on November 2, 2008, the day before the election, perReuters.