Clinton Spoke With Queen on How Women Leaders ‘Always Had to Have Your Hair Done’

• Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shared some of her memories with Queen Elizabeth II.
• Clinton said she and the late Queen had privately remarked on being women leaders.
• The late Queen’s coffin was driven from Balmoral Castle to Edinburgh on Sunday.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shared her memories with Queen Elizabeth II as funeral processions have begun for the late monarch.

On CNN’s “State of the Union” with Dana Bash on Sunday, Clinton said she and Queen Elizabeth II would sometimes share “wry” comments about being women leaders on an international stage.

“I can’t say that I talked at any length. Sometimes, there would be a wry exchange about how, as a woman leader, you always had to have your hair done,” Clinton said on Sunday. “Of course, she always looked perfect, unlike some of us. She had a sense of style that really stayed with her.”

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Clinton described the late Queen as a “symbol of a strong, stalwart woman leader.”

“I knew that her sense of who she was and the role she played literally governed her life, from every second of it,” Clinton said, adding that she heard an interesting statistic that nine out of 10 people alive in the world today were born after she became Queen Elizabeth took the throne.

Clinton praised the Queen for her “devotion to duty and her sense of obligation” to her people. 

“But I also saw a more playful and somewhat funny and very, incredibly warm side of her as well,” Clinton said. “All of the presidents, all of the prime ministers, everyone that she met, I think, saw that twinkle in her eye, and maybe were lucky enough to exchange pleasantries that went beyond just the official greetings.”

Clinton added: “And that’s how I felt. I felt very fortunate to see her in different settings over the time that I knew her as first lady and then secretary of state.”