This image made available by LOCOG shows torchbearer 048 Sarah Winckless carrying the Olympic Flame at the Olympic Rowing Venue, Eton Dorney, England on the Torch Relay leg on Eton Dorney Lake Tuesday July 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Gareth Fuller)
This image made available by LOCOG shows torchbearer 048 Sarah Winckless carrying the Olympic Flame at the Olympic Rowing Venue, Eton Dorney, England on the Torch Relay leg on Eton Dorney Lake Tuesday July 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Gareth Fuller)
In this image provided by the Olympic Organizing Committee LOCOG, showing Sir Roger Bannister holding the Olympic Flame on the running track at Iffley Road Stadium in Oxford, England, Tuesday July 10, 2012. Bannister was the first person to ever to run a sub four-minute-mile, on May 6, 1954, at this track in Oxford. Bannister returned to the site of his greatest sporting achievement, to participate in the Olympic Torch relay as the Olympic flame is carried around the country to the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympic Games. (AP Photo / Gareth Fuller, LOCOG)
Sir Roger Bannister talks to the media before passing the Olympic Flame to a torchbearer on the running track at Iffley Road Stadium in Oxford, England, Tuesday July 10, 2012. Bannister was the first person ever to run a sub four-minute-mile, on May 6, 1954, at this track in Oxford. Bannister returned to the site of his greatest sporting achievement, to participate in the Olympic Torch relay as the Olympic flame is carried around the country to the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympic Games. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
This image made available by LOCOG shows former Colombian soccer player Carlos Valderrama carrying the Olympic Flame on the Torch Relay leg between Slough and Windsor, England, Tuesday July 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Danny Lawson, LOCOG)
This image made available by LOCOG shows former Colombian soccer player Carlos Valderrama carrying the Olympic Flame on the Torch Relay leg between Slough and Windsor, England, Tuesday July 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Danny Lawson, LOCOG)
LONDON (AP) ? Queen Elizabeth II has met an old flame ? the fire lit in Greece to mark the London Olympics.
The monarch carried an unopened umbrella Tuesday as torchbearer Gina Macgregor held the torch. The sodden 74-year-old runner joked about being caught in downpour and told the queen that she had "looked fine this morning."
The flame's visit to Windsor Castle came on an eventful day for the relay, which began with the torch being held aloft by Roger Bannister, the first runner to smash the 4-minute mile in 1954.
The torch is winding its way 8,000 miles (12,900 kilometers) across the country ahead of the July 27-Aug. 12 Olympics. Organizers say the flame should come within 10 miles (16 kilometers) of 95 percent of the population.
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