Bush hosts banquet for Queen

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During his slip up at the White House on Monday, Mr Bush aged the monarch by 200 years by starting to suggest she came to the US in 1776, rather than 1976.

He turned to her after his mistake and winked, before declaring to the 7,000-strong crowd watching the official welcome ceremony on the south lawn: "She gave me a look that only a mother could give a child."

At the state banquet later at the White House, the Queen uttered the word "Iraq" for the first time during this tour of the US.

In her toast, she stressed in strong terms the need for Britain and America to stay close allies and said it was a partnership to be reckoned with in the defence of freedom, adding touchingly: "That is the lesson of my lifetime."

She mentioned Iraq alongside Afghanistan, climate change and the fight against poverty as she talked about the world "grappling with problems certainly no less complex than those faced by our 20th century forebears".

Mr Bush has been much criticised for his policies on the war in Iraq and the environment.

The Queen said in Washington: "Divided or alone we can be vulnerable, but if the Atlantic unites not divides us, ours is a partnership always to be reckoned with in the defence of freedom and the spread of prosperity.

"That is the lesson of my lifetime. Administrations in your country and governments in mine may come and go, but talk we will, listen we have to, disagree from time to time we may, but united we must always remain."

The Queen was dressed in a glittering white Stewart Parvin fitted bodice and chiffon skirt and wore the Queen Mary tiara, diamond Festoon necklace and garter star and sash.