Dancing with Ford until Carter Mistakes – The Queen’s Meetings with 13 US Presidents | UK News

The Queen has met with all but one of the sitting U.S. Presidents during her remarkable 69-year reign, including JFK, Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama.

Today she will meet her 13th – and closest to her age – Joe Biden, who took office at 78 last year.

Harry truman was the first in 1951 when the Queen was still a princess – and seven years after her accession to the throne, Dwight D Eisenhower visited the UK.

Princess Anne and prince charles were pictured alongside him, clad in kilts, on his trip to Balmoral in 1959.

John F. Kennedy and his wife visited in June 1961, just six months after the start of his presidency. The queen was then 35 years old.

A state banquet was held at Buckingham Palace and the glamorous couple’s visit was dramatized in a hit TV series The crown.

Two years later, on November 22, 1963, Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.

Lyndon B Johnson, who succeeded JFK and served from 1963 to 1969, was the only US president never to meet the Queen during her reign.

She likely would have met Mr Johnson at Mr Kennedy’s funeral, but was five months pregnant with Prince edward at the time and so Prince Philippe went instead.

Richard nixon had lunch at Buckingham Palace in February 1969, during his visit to then-Prime Minister Harold Wilson.

Nixon ended up resigning five years later after the Watergate scandal.