Tetsuko Kuroyanagi. (For editorial use only)(Kyodo)

Britain's Queen Elizabeth seemed to be "preoccupied with computers" when she chatted with Japanese celebrity Tetsuko Kuroyanagi at the British Embassy in Tokyo in 1975, the veteran actress said Friday, a day after the monarch's passing.

The queen and Kuroyanagi, 89, also a famous TV personality, talked about the BBC and NHK, the public broadcasters of the two countries, with the queen repeatedly referencing the lack of computers at the BBC when the two held a personal conversation filled with laughter during a reception at the embassy, according to her post on Instagram.

"How many (TV) channels do you have in Japan?" the queen asked Kuroyanagi, she wrote. The question came after the TV personality told her she had covered the queen's arrival at Tokyo's Haneda airport and her subsequent visit to the Imperial Palace on live TV.

Kuroyanagi responded, "Seven," and then asked the queen, "How many (TV) channels do you have in England?"

"She looked surprised for a moment but then laughed and said quickly, 'Three,'" Kuroyanagi, the host of a record-breaking Japanese talk show, wrote in the post aimed at sharing a fond memory of Britain's beloved queen with her 1.12 million followers.

She also wrote, "The way she said it (three) was so quick that I couldn't help but laugh, and the queen laughed too. Then she added, 'There will be one more soon. So we will have four.'"

Kuroyanagi also said the queen seemed impressed with her visit to NHK, as she told the TV personality, "I saw on NHK today that they are sending out all their broadcasts by computer."

Kuroyanagi quickly replied that she is "always more impressed by what the BBC broadcasts in England than by computers," only to be told by the queen, "Yes, the BBC is good, but they don't have computers."

When the Japanese actress mentioned that she always used British actors' performances shown on the BBC as a model for her Western acting, the queen once again referenced the BBC's lack of computers, making Kuroyanagi "increasingly puzzled."

The British monarch also looked surprised when Kuroyanagi told her she had a video recorder and player at home, according to the post.

"I have never met anyone as honest, lovely, and dignified as the queen," who was about 3 centimeters taller than Kuroyanagi, she wrote.

Following the conversation, it was decided that the queen would be given a video recorder and a tape of her activities in Japan as a souvenir, according to the actress.

Kuroyanagi is known as a living encyclopedia of broadcasting in Japan, having been hired by NHK in January 1953 to become one of the nation's first TV actresses. The public broadcaster launched TV programming the following month, a first in Japan.