Biden’s meeting with Queen Elizabeth II is his first in nearly four decades.
ST. IVES, England — President Joe Biden built his political brand on being part of a working class family from a former coal town in the hills of northeastern Pennsylvania.
On Sunday, Joe from Scranton meets with the queen.
Biden — alongside his wife, first lady Jill Biden, a community college teacher — will have tea at Windsor Castle with Queen Elizabeth II, the British monarch who has reigned for more than 60 years, before he departs the United Kingdom.
It’s a presidential rite of passage. Queen Elizabeth, 95, has met every American president since World War II, with the exception of Lyndon Johnson. Biden is the first in two decades, though, to come from what he’s described as hardscrabble roots.
“It’s a mighty long ride from being Scranton Joe the Amtrak commuter to dining… with Queen Elizabeth but they’ll get along fabulously,” presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said. “The wonderful thing about Biden is that he is comfortable with himself in any setting.”
Brinkley said Biden will go out of his way to follow the correct protocols and manners. “Protocol is our current president’s modus operandi,” he said.
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.
The visit on Sunday — which is expected to include an arrival ceremony with a review of troops and the playing of the two countries’ national anthems — comes three days after what would have been the queen’s late husband’s 100th birthday. Prince Philip, the duke of Edinburgh, died two months ago at the age of 99. It will mark the queen’s first in-person meeting with a head of state since his death.
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President Joe Biden built his political brand on being part of a working class family from a former coal town in the hills of northeastern Pennsylvania. On Sunday, Joe from Scranton meets with the queen https://t.co/KnKwTf1OcJ
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I read that the meeting went well. I should think Her Majesty was happy meeting a real President and First Lady with intelligence and class instead of the low-rent Trumps.
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