Ronald Reagan and Queen Elizabeth II (2024)

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In honor of Reagan's 31st wedding anniversary, the President and Nancy Reagan met up with Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip on March 4th. The dinner event was held on Her Majesty's Yacht Britannia. Ronald Reagan described the event in his daily diary, “It was a magic evening.

In this post, we will share Queen Elizabeth's visits with various United States Presidents and some major events going on at the time. In total, Queen Elizabeth met 13 out of the 14 United States Presidents that served during her lifetime. The only U.S. president that she did not meet was President Lyndon Johnson.

In his first term, Reagan implemented "Reaganomics", which involved economic deregulation and cuts in both taxes and government spending during a period of stagflation. He escalated an arms race and transitioned Cold War policy away from détente with the Soviet Union.

She ascended to the throne on Feb. 6, 1952, when her father, King George VI, died. Over the past seven decades, she saw 15 prime ministers and 14 U.S. presidents, the first being Harry S. Truman.

It was said, of the 13 American presidents Queen Elizabeth met and knew, Ronald Reagan was her favorite. And why not, Reagan was charming to the hilt and they both shared a love of the out-of-doors, especially horses. Often times when they met, they went for morning horseback rides together.

Eisenhower was the first president she met as queen, although the two had met before, when she was a princess and he was NATO's first supreme allied commander in Europe.

Abraham Lincoln has taken the highest ranking in each survey and George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Theodore Roosevelt have always ranked in the top five while James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and Franklin Pierce have been ranked at the bottom of all four surveys.

Reagan and other conservatives successfully presented conservative ideas as an alternative to a public that had grown disillusioned with New Deal liberalism. Reagan's charisma and speaking skills helped him frame conservatism as an optimistic, forward-looking vision for the country.

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Her visits have included four State Visits, five State Dinners, and two unofficial visits during her reign. In seventy years, Queen Elizabeth II participated in many important White House traditions and met more U.S. presidents than any other head of state.

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Even more telling is the delegation that President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent to Queen Elizabeth II's coronation in June 1953. In this postwar moment – marked by escalating tensions with the Soviet Union and the accompanying Red Scare at home – Eisenhower chose his four representatives carefully.

There have been attempts or plots to assassinate 18 of the 46 U.S. presidents. As was mentioned above, only four presidents died of assassination. President Abraham Lincoln's assassin fled the scene and was later killed during a chase, while his co-conspirators were convicted and hanged.

Over their eight years spent in the White House, Barack and Michelle Obama visited Buckingham Palace three times. The pair got off to a great start when President Obama gave the Queen a gift when he met her for the first time in April 2009 when Obama touched down in the UK for the G20 summit.

Biden and the queen have met at least once before, back in 1982, when he was serving as a Democratic senator from Delaware, the state his family moved to when he was 10. He traveled to the U.K. that year for a meeting of the British-American Parliamentary Group, according to a White House review of his Senate records.

From Truman to Biden, the queen's meetings with presidents were formal, fun or awkward. Princess Elizabeth and President Harry Truman smile from an open auto at National Airport on Oct. 31, 1951 in Washington, D.C. The death of Queen Elizabeth II closes a chapter in British history that lasted seven decades.

On November 15, 1949, she met Ronald Reagan, who was then president of the Screen Actors Guild. She had noticed that her name had appeared on the Hollywood blacklist. Davis sought Reagan's help to maintain her employment as a guild actress in Hollywood and for assistance in having her name removed from the list.