Many emerged enchanted, spellbound or starstruck.
It was her first official visit to the United States, three months before she would become Queen. President Harry S. Truman traveled in an open-topped limousine to greet her on the tarmac. In her high voice, its accent a refined counterpoint to Truman's midwestern inflection, the 23-year-old princess offered warmth for a nation that had rejected British royal rule 175 years earlier.
"Whenever anyone becomes acquainted with you," Truman told Elizabeth that day in 1951,"they immediately fall in love."It was a sentiment that would be repeated, in so many words, for the next 70 years, as American leaders visited her at her palaces in the United Kingdom or when she traveled to the White House.
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