Pres. Trump is just the latest in a long string of U.S. presidents -- as far as Harry Truman -- to have met Britain's longest-reigning monarch. He is, however, just the third to receive the full trappings of an honorary state visit.
President Donald Trump is set to be feted in grand style by Queen Elizabeth II during an official state visit this week.Trump is just the latest in a long string of U.S. presidents -- as far as Harry Truman -- to have met Britain's longest-reigning monarch. He is, however, just the third to receive the full trappings of an honorary state visit.In 1951, when the queen was still a princess, she met Truman during a visit to Washington.
Kennedy's successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, did not meet with Queen Elizabeth during his presidency, making him the only U.S. president since Truman not to have met her when she was queen. It wasn't long thereafter that the queen played hostess to another U.S. president. President Jimmy Carter visited Buckingham Palace in 1977, when the monarch welcomed Carter along with other visiting heads of state to the palace for a dinner in conjunction with that year's NATO summit.
President Bill Clinton first met the queen in 1994 during a banquet marking the 50th anniversary of D-Day in Portsmouth, England. Clinton made multiple visits to the U.K. over the course of his presidency and also met the queen for tea at Buckingham Palace in 2000.
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