Over the course of her 70-year reign, Queen Elizabeth II met every President, with the exception of Lyndon B Johnson. Here, see seven brilliant moments from Her Majesty’s long history of meeting with America’s leaders:
, the Queen met every President, with the exception of Lyndon B Johnson, hosting and visiting Commanders in Chief everywhere from Buckingham Palace to a baseball stadium in Baltimore. Inevitably, in spite of the “special relationship” between America and Britain, these meetings rarely went entirely to plan.
Others, however, will go down in history as surprising triumphs. In 1982, the Reagans visited Her Majesty and the Duke of Edinburgh at Windsor, where the Queen and Ronald Reagan carried out a specially orchestrated ride through Windsor Great Park, trailed by more than 150 photographers and a Range Rover full of Secret Service agents.
Another gastronomical connection between the British monarchy and the American presidency: Scotch pancakes. During a trip to Balmoral in 1959, the Eisenhowers apparently requested the Queen’s recipe. “Seeing a picture of you in today’s newspaper standing in front of a barbecue grilling quail reminded me that I had never sent you the recipe of the drop scones which I promised you at Balmoral,” the Queen wrote to Dwight D Eisenhower by hand. “I now hasten to do so.
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