U.S. President Joe Biden and first woman Jill Biden met Queen Elizabeth on Sunday afternoon at Windsor Fortress following Biden’s participation on the G7 summit in Cornwall, U.Okay.
The Bidens arrived on the citadel aboard the presidential helicopter and had been ferried to the Queen in a black Vary Rover. The 95-year-old monarch greeted the Bidens within the citadel’s quadrangle, the place she waited beneath a coated dais that shielded her from the solar on one of many hottest days of the yr to this point in the UK.
Assembled troopers from the Queen’s Firm First Battalion Grenadier Guards gave a royal salute and the Bidens positioned their arms over their hearts because the U.S. nationwide anthem was performed.
The president was then led throughout the grass for an inspection of the Guard of Honour. He wore a stern expression on his face after he had eliminated his trademark aviator sun shades, however when the 78-year-old Biden bought to the tip of the row, he smiled for the soldier in entrance of him who held up a sword. The Queen and Jill Biden remained on the dais.
Biden returned to the dais and he, the primary woman and the monarch who has held the British throne for practically 70 years watched the navy march previous earlier than they went inside for tea. As they left the dais, Biden provided the Queen an elbow. She declined and stepped down on her personal energy, utilizing the handrail.
The Bidens emerged from the citadel simply shy of getting spent a full hour with the Queen and boarded the helicopter for the return journey to London.
At Heathrow Airport, Biden talked in regards to the Queen along with his touring press corps, saying she was “very gracious,” that she requested him about Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese language President Xi Jinping and that he had invited her to go to the White Home.
“I do not suppose she’ll be insulted, however she jogged my memory of my mom,” Biden mentioned earlier than he boarded Air Drive One for his subsequent cease, Brussels.
It usually is frowned upon for anybody to disclose the contents of their personal talks with the Queen.
thirteenth president to satisfy Queen Elizabeth
Biden is the thirteenth American president to satisfy Queen Elizabeth. President Lyndon B. Johnson is the one one who didn’t make her acquaintance whereas he was in workplace.
She has welcomed 4 different U.S. presidents to Windsor Fortress, the place she has been isolating in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. They’re Donald Trump in 2018, Barack Obama in 2016, George W. Bush in 2008 and Ronald Reagan in 1982.
Biden’s first time assembly the Queen got here in November 1982, when as a U.S. senator he traveled to the UK for a gathering of the British-American Parliamentary Group, the White Home mentioned Sunday. Biden was a part of a bunch that met with the monarch throughout that go to.
The Queen has been driving out the pandemic at Windsor Fortress, but in addition has begun getting out from time to time after the April dying of her husband, Prince Philip, at age 99.
On Friday, she joined different royal relations — together with Prince Charles and Camilla, and Prince William and Kate — at a reception in Cornwall for the G7 leaders.
