Australian Val Dempsey ran into US President Joe Biden near toilet in Westminster Abbey

One of Australia’s VIP guests at the Queen’s funeral has recounted her encounter with US President Joe Biden. Watch the video.

Senior Australian Of Year, Val Dempsey, 72, said she was marvelling at the pomp and ceremony of the Westminster Abbey service when she bumped into American President Joe Biden while exiting the loo.

“I was so completely overwhelmed by the emotion and outpouring of the day’s events, I was in my own head as I was coming out of the loo in the corridor inside the church … I went head first into president Joe Biden,” she said.

“I said, ‘Gracious, g’day, how do you do?’”

“He said, ‘I’m good,’ and carried on walking

And all because Mother Nature called.”

Valmai Dempsey, 2022 Senior Australian of the Year and attended the Queen’s funeral where she bumped into Joe Biden while exiting the toilet at Westminster Abbey. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

It comes as the US President and his wife First Lady Jill Biden attended the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II on Monday, local time.

Britain said its final farewell to Queen Elizabeth II at a historic state funeral attended by world leaders, before a ceremonial journey past hundreds of thousands of mourners to her final resting place in the royal vault next to Prince Philip.

Thousands, including many Australians, gathered in London to watch as the flag-draped coffin, topped with the Queen’s Imperial State Crown, orb and sceptre, was carried from parliament’s Westminster Hall where it had lain in state since Wednesday.

US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden attend the State Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, held at Westminster Abbey. Picture: Jack Hill – WPA Pool/Getty Images

To the tune of pipes and drums, a gun carriage was drawn by 142 sailors in the Royal Navy to Westminster Abbey.

Inside the thousand-year-old church were gathered more than 2,000 people, including global leaders and heads of state from US President Joe Biden to Japan’s reclusive Emperor Naruhito, uniting for this milestone of royal history.

“You were fortunate to have had her for 70 years; we all were,” Mr Biden said on Sunday after signing a book of condolence. “The world is better for her.”

US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden at Westminster Abbey, where Mr Biden bumped into Val Dempsey. Picture: Getty Images

The Queen – the longest-serving monarch in British history – died at Balmoral, her Scottish Highland retreat, on September 8 after a year of mobility issues and declining health.

Her eldest son and successor, King Charles III, dressed in ceremonial military uniform, followed the solemn processions in London, alongside his three siblings, all of whom looked genuinely grief stricken and solemn.

The hours long service which featured choir, hymns, and sermons, concluded with the Queen’s lead-lined oak casket, draped with her colours, being lowered into the Royal Vault to the strains of a lone bagpipe player.