The NOT so special relationship: Inside the most controversial moments during state visits to Britain from US Presidents

This is a special relationship – but over the years, the US presidents and the first ladies fought to wander in the sensitive dance of royal manners.
Donald Trump was the last commander to collect regal eyebrows during his state visit to Windsor Castle this week.
Critics claimed that the 79 -year -old Wales Princess had violated the ‘illegitimate rules of personal diplomacy’ by complimenting the appearance of the Wales Princess.
President Trump recorded Catherine by offering a hand jamming: ‘You are very beautiful. Very good’.
Later, on Wednesday, at an official state feast, he again described him as ‘very bright, very healthy and very beautiful’.
The royal historian Justin Vovk was not impressed, global hectic comments ‘he called in a very strange way and added:’ There is a lot of things. ‘
However, Mr. Trump is not alone among the presidents for blunder before the US royal people.
The Daily Mail returns to the most unforgettable sovereign shifts by US leaders and wives.
Melania Trump, Donald Trump, King III. Charles and Queen Camilla at Windsor Castle on Wednesday
Donald Trump
President Trump first made a royal visit to England in July 2018 until his first period.
He met Queen Elizabeth on a trip to Windsor Castle to avoid great protests in London.
President Trump’s late sovereignty, while examining the honor protector, claimed that he had kept it waiting for ten minutes in 27 degrees before he stopped in front of him.
While the unpredictable President could not bend after greeting the Queen, he also joined the issues, while First Lady Melania was just stuck hands.
Bending and purting are not compulsory, but it is seen as a general courtesy by the palace.
A biography of the late Queen claimed that he found president Trump ‘very rude’ and that he did not like ‘especially’ in his search for others’ more interesting in search of others.
It was also suggested that his relationship with his wife believes that he was a ‘a kind of arrangement’.
In his book Craig Brown, Journey around the Queen: ‘Majesty, Majesty Bashar Assad, Robert Mugabe, Idi Amin, Donald Trump, Emperor Hirohito and Vladimir Putin entertained many controversial foreign leaders.
In the picture: Trump and Elizabeth II in a state feast in Buckingham Palace during the first state visit
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For example, a few weeks after President Trump’s visit, he trusted that he found him ‘very rude’ at a lunch guest.
“ Especially in the search for others as if more interesting in search of the shoulder could not stop looking at the shoulder.
‘President Trump also believed that he should have some kind of arrangement with his wife Melania, or why was he married?
‘Donald Trump was sure he was his favorite guest.’
The meeting was greeted with large -scale protests and was greeted with a giant swelling discovery depicting Trump as a baby floating on the parliamentary square.
A year later, President Trump enjoyed a full state visit with his wife and four children.
Although he avoided any great blunder, he was accused of breaking the royal protocol by putting his hand on the ruler’s back and fried him as a ‘great, big woman’.
Jimmy Carter
President Carter, known for his easy South charm, brought a absolutely informal approach to the Royal manners during his first official trip to abroad.
In May 1977 at a Buckingham Palace feast, the 39th US president was said to kiss the queen mother on her lips.
At that time, the 76 -year -old Queen Elizabeth said: ‘I took a sharp step – not far enough.’
However, the former American President rejected that he had kissed him on his lips, and instead of saying good night after a diplomatic dinner, he said it was ‘slightly on his cheek’.
In his 2016 autobiography, he wrote: ‘After two years, there were reports in the British newspapers, stating that I had greatly distorted this activity and deeply embarrassed him with extreme familiarity.
‘I was uncomfortable with these reports, but I couldn’t change what happened – nor did I regret it.’
In the picture: President Jimmy Carter, during the visit in May 1977, talks with the queen and queen mother in the blue drawing room in Buckingham Palace
Gerald Ford
The deceased Queen made four state visit to the United States in its 70 -year reign, but the 1976 trip proved to be a particularly unforgettable exercise in diplomatic strangeness.
During a gala, President Gerald Ford shared a dance with the ruler during a gala to mark the two hundreds of hundred years.
However, the accompanying group hit the ‘The Lady Tamp’ melody.
During the same visit, President Ford and his wife Betty Ford were taking the queen to the yellow oval room.
The elevator door opened and the shirt was taken back and held the dress shirt stabbed Fords’s middle son 24 -year -old Jack stopped.
Mrs. Ford then remembered the Washington Post: ‘The queen,’ Oh, don’t think of anything. There is one of the ones at home.
And obviously. Actually, a few of them.
‘I think Prince Andrew caused some similar experiences – maybe, maybe not the clothes stabbed.’
Picture: Gerald Ford, Washington, Washington, Queen II in the White House.
Barack Obama
44. The US president’s visits to England were mostly smooth – but even Barack Obama was not immune to regal discussions.
In 2009, Michelle Obama drew a wave of criticism after placing a sleeve around the first female queen’s shoulders.
Later, Mrs. Obama replied to Fake Pas, claiming that the Queen had no problem in touching and that they were closer to their painful shoes.
Obama wrote in his book: ‘The queen looked at the black Jimmy Choos couple. He shook his head.
“These shoes are unpleasant, right? ‘
“ Sometimes forget that you wear a diamond crown and that I will fly to London in the presidential jet; We were only two tired ladies crushed by our shoes.
“ Later, when I felt connected to a new person, I made the instinctive one to express my feelings outward. I put my hand on your shoulder with love.
“ I didn’t know right now, but I was committed to an epic fake pass.
In the picture: Former US first Lady Michelle Obama, Buckingham Palace with her arm around Queen Elizabeth LL, London, England at reception on April 1, 2009
‘I touched the Queen of England, which I will soon learn.
He added: ‘If I had not done anything suitable at Buckingham Palace, at least I would have done human business. The queen was good with it, because when I touched her, she approached the small part of my back by listening to a slightly gloved hand. ‘
The late Queen’s Tailor Angela Kelly has long been written in the 2019 book in 2019, which defines the mutual temperature between the couple.
Meanwhile, at the Buckingham Palace, in 2011, Obama proposed a toast when the orchestra began to play ‘God Queen Save’.
Instead of pause the National Anthem to play, he was deported with his words by talking on the music.
The queen then waited until the last notes folded before lifting her glass.
George W. Bush
During the 2007 Royal visit to the United States, President Bush made an oral shift that added 200 years to his age.
During a pleasant ceremony at the White House grass, the Gaffe -prone president announced that the queen had visited the United States for the first time in 1776.
In 1976, the Queen wanted to indicate how the US helped to celebrate its two hundreds of hundreds of years.
President Bush said in his speech: ‘The American people are proud to invite your Majesty to the United States, a nation you know very well.
After all, you had dinner with ten US presidents.
‘You helped our nation to celebrate its two hundreds of hundreds of years in 1976.’
He then combined the error by winking at him before paying attention to dignity: ‘He gave me a look that only a mother could give a child.’
The queen grinned in her speech: ‘This Toast’ I was here in 1776 … ‘I wondered that I should not start and start.
In the Picture: During the Royal Tour in 1991, US President George HW Bush and Queen Elizabeth
Ronald Reagan
The Queen invited Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy to stay at Windsor Castle in 1982.
However, instead of jumping in honor, the President of the United States waited for weeks for a response.
Later, according to the documents published by the national archives, Ambassador Nicholas Henderson wrote to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a note: ‘The president is really responding to his invitation.
‘As you know, those who surround the president are not deliberately rude: not only organized.’
An old official claimed that the delayed response could be connected to Mrs. Reagan.
Mr. Reagan’s special assistant William Sittmann, ‘Mrs. Reagan, was very strict about the program, to see if it was the right time to see if it was.’
In the end, the issue was corrected and the Reags came to Windsor, where the President attended the Queen for a journey on horseback on the land.
The articles showed how Mr. Reagan asked what to wear while riding and said he wanted a purebred horse.
In the picture: Queen Elizabeth II.
Joe Biden
President Biden came to Glasgow to talk about cutting emissions – but in 2021 he produced a very different gas at the COP26 Climate Summit.
On Sunday, Posta reported how the Duchess of Cornwall was surprised when the Queen Camilla was surprised during a reception in the President Kelvingrove Art Gallery.
“It was long, high and impossible to ignore it,” he said. ‘Camilla did not stop talking about it.’
Mr. Biden was accused of a royal Gaffe in June 2021 that he was wearing brand Ray-Ban sunglasses next to the late queen.
A former member of Palace staff described the fashion fake-pen in Windsor Castle as a ‘violation of protocol’.
Grant Harrold, an old servant of Cornwall, Prince Charles and Camilla, said: ‘If you are meeting face -to -face, there is nothing like sunglasses or such because eye contact is very important with any promotion.
“ `Biden’in good sunglasses, but when he met the queen had to remove them.
‘Everyone has to, who you are, it doesn’t matter, when they meet royal families, they remove their sunglasses.’ ‘
In the picture: President Joe Biden at the COP26 Climate Summit in 2021




