Within days after her death, a spokesman for Khamenei's office said that Queen Elizabeth II cost Britain more than a billion dollars a few months before her death (a reference to the celebration of her Platinum Jubilee, marking the 70th anniversary of her ascension to the throne) and that she was a "hag".
Immediately after Queen Elizabeth II's passing, Khamenei's spokesperson made a statement about her death and claimed that she had cost Britain over a billion dollars in celebration preparations for her Platinum Jubilee (a reference to the 70th anniversary of her reign) and labeled her as "old woman".