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The Queen met with all US Presidents in office, but one during her remarkable 66-year reign, including JFK, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama.
Later this week she will meet her 12th and arguably the most controversial – Donald Trump.
Harry Truman was the first in 1951 when the Queen was still a princess, and seven years after she took the throne Dwight D Eisenhower visited the United Kingdom [19659004] Princess Anne and Prince Charles were photographed beside her, in kilts, during her trip to Balmoral in 1959.
John F. Kennedy and his wife visited in June 1961, just six months after his presidency. The Queen was 35 years old at the time
A state banquet was held at Buckingham Palace and the glamorous couple's visit was dramatized in the hit television series The Crown.
Two years later, on November 22, 1963, Kennedy was murdered in Dallas
The banquet of the Kennedys was dramatized in The Crown
Lyndon B Johnson who succeeded JFK and served from 1963 to 1969, he was the only president of the United States never to meet the Queen.
She would probably have met Johnson at Kennedy's funeral, but was five months pregnant with Prince Edward at that time, so Prince Philip went to Richard Nixon had lunch at Buckingham Palace in February 1969, during his visit to Prime Minister Harold Wilson
The Queen with Richard Nixon at Buckingham Palace in February 19 69
Nixon resigns five years later after the Watergate scandal
Gerald Ford does not visit the United Kingdom during his two and a half years in office. However, the queen met him on the other side of the pond during a visit in July 1976.
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Gerald Ford danced with the Queen in Washington – but the song provoked controversy The couple danced together at a state dinner at the White House, but with an unfortunate timing, the band played The Lady Is A Tramp.
Jimmy Carter was then at Buckingham Palace in May 1977.
However, in another presidential blunder, Carter threw the protocol out the window and saluted the queen mother with a kiss on the lips
Jimmy Carter with the monarch in 1977 – but he upset the mother queen
According to the William biographer Shawcross, she later wrote: "I've taken a step back – not far enough."
The president who did the most for the "special relationship" transatlantic that any other was Ronald Reagan.
His affinity with Margaret Thatcher is well known and, in power, he met the Queen three times in London in the 1980s.
Ronald Reagan and the Queen Riding Horses in Windsor Castle Park
Reagan's first royal home was at Windsor Castle in 1982, where the two riders were photographed together in the park . the White House in 1989, the queen gave him an honorary chivalry.
The eighth president to meet the queen was George Bush . He threw himself on him in May 1989 – just five months after his inauguration.
George Bush welcomed the Queen in Washington In May 1991
The Queen visited the United States United two years later, but while she was getting up to make a speech on the lawn outside the White House, she had some red faces
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He later told the press that the queen had laughed at the incident.
Bill Clinton met the monarch at three of his many UK presidential stopovers – in 1994, 1995, and December 2000.
Bill Clinton with his wife Hillary and daughter Chelsea at Buckingham Palace in 2000
Years later, his wife Hillary Clinton would of course have almost become the first female president United States – losing in Donald Trump's electoral defeat.
As father as son – George W. Bush wasted no time in meeting the prime minister and the queen months after being sworn in as 43rd president.
But there were demonstrations, involving tens of thousands of people, during his official visit in November 2003.
An effigy of George W. Bush was shot in Trafalgar Square during his visit in 2003
George W. Bush visited the Queen for a last time in 2008
Deeply unpopular because of the controversy over the war in Iraq, an effigy of the president was overthrown by protesters in Trafalgar Square.
However, the controversy did not seem to affect the US-UK relationship and the queen visited the United States in 007, with the president returning to the UK a year later.
Barack Obama had a much milder ride from the public when he visited the UK and met with the Queen in 2009 – and the state visit pump followed in May 2011.
The Queen warmly welcomed the President when he landed in Windsor
The Obamas met the Queen in 2016 at Windsor Castle
from his last visit as president in April 2016, his helicopter landed in Windsor Park with the Queen smiling while she walked to greet The Queen will meet her 12th President when she will see Donald Trump this week – with the US ambbadador telling Sky News that it was "a job" for Mr. Trump and "very symbolic".
has seen everything before, but all eyes will be on his reaction and the subtle body language between the pair.
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