President Donald Trump just became the latest in a long line of American presidents who have met Queen Elizabeth II. After praising the Queen’s leadership in an interview with The Sun that was published on Friday, the president and First Lady Melania Trump sat down with Her Royal Majesty over tea at Windsor Castle. “She is a tremendous woman,” Trump told the newspaper. “I really look forward to meeting her. I think she represents her country so well. If you think of it, for so many years she has represented her country, she has really never made a mistake. You don’t see, like, anything embarrassing. She is just an incredible woman.” With the exception of President Lyndon Johnson, the Queen has met with every sitting U.S. president since she ascended the throne in 1952. This is Trump’s first official visit to the U.K. since he was sworn into office in January 2017. Get The Brief. Sign up to receive the top stories you need to know right now. 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Write to Megan McCluskey at megan.mccluskey@time.com.<doc-sep>On Tuesday, when President Donald Trump ventured to Windsor Castle for tea as part of his first official state visit to the United Kingdom, he became the 13th United States president to meet with Queen Elizabeth II since 1951. Newsweek took a look at the 12 other presidents to have met the queen, dating back to when she was only a princess. Each meeting had a unique characteristic. One president accidentally kissed Queen Elizabeth, her mother, on the lips and another gave Queen Elizabeth II an iPod. 1951: President Harry Truman The queen didn't begin her reign until 1952, but she stepped in for her father, King George VI, who was in declining health, for a 1951 state visit to the United States. Princess Elizabeth met with President Harry Truman and his wife, first lady Bess Truman. Prince Elizabeth and her husband, Prince Philip, stayed with the Trumans at Blair House, according to the White House Historical Association. Fun fact: Truman was the only president that the queen met in an official diplomatic capacity when she was a princess. 1957: President Dwight Eisenhower President Dwight Eisenhower hosted Queen Elizabeth II's first state visit to the United States since her coronation in 1957. She then returned the favor in 1959 when she hosted him as a guest at Balmoral, the royal estate in Scotland, according to BBC America. "Seeing a picture of you in today's newspaper standing in front of a barbecue grilling quail, reminded me that I had never sent you the recipe of the drop scones which I promised you at Balmoral. I now hasten to do so," the queen wrote to Eisenhower in a letter obtained by BBC America. "We remember with such pleasure your visit to Balmoral, and I hope the photographs will be a reminder of the very happy day you spent with us." Fun fact: Eisenhower served as Supreme Allied Commander in London and had developed a friendship with the queen when she was still a princess, as well as her parents. 1957: President Herbert Hoover Former President Herbert Hoover's time in office had already been over for 24 years by the time he and the queen crossed paths. One stop on the queen's royal tour of the United States was a luncheon at New York's Waldorf Astoria, where she gave a speech, according to CNN, and Hoover was seated next to her. Fun fact: During this visit to America, the queen saw Jamestown, Virginia, the first American settlement. 1961: President John F. Kennedy During her meeting with President John F. Kennedy and first lady Jackie Kennedy, the queen threw a banquet in their honor, which Kennedy recounted in a birthday note to the monarch. "May I also at the same time say how grateful my wife and I are for the cordial hospitality offered to us by your Majesty and Prince Philip during our visit to London last Monday," he wrote, according to Southern Living. "We shall always cherish the memory of that delightful evening." Fun fact: Photographer Cecil Beaton wrote in his diary that Jackie Kennedy told him that she was unimpressed by Buckingham Palace and Queen Elizabeth's dress and hairstyle, according to The Telegraph. 1969: President Richard Nixon In 1969, President Richard Nixon received a tour of Buckingham Palace from the queen and Prince Philip, according to the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. In October 1970, first lady Pat Nixon and the president visited with the queen and Prime Minister Edward Heath at Chequers. Fun fact: Prince Charles and Princess Anne visited the Nixons at the White House in 1970 before the president and first lady came to England. 1976: President Gerald Ford President Gerald Ford and first lady Betty Ford hosted the queen and Prince Philip at the White House for a state dinner in July 1976. The celebration was to commemorate the bicentennial of the American Revolution, according to the Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum. Betty Ford wrote in her memoir that a tent was erected for the queen's dinner because of the number of events. Using the tent allowed the events to carry on without having to close the White House to the public for a large portion of the summer. Fun fact: An hour and a half before the queen's dinner, there was a sudden downpour and three trees on the White House's property were struck by lightning. 1977: President Jimmy Carter The queen hosted President Jimmy Carter at Buckingham Palace in 1977 for a dinner with North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) leaders. The two had previously met the year before when the queen was in Washington, D.C. for the bicentennial when Ford was in office. Fun fact: During the visit, Carter kissed the Queen Mother, Elizabeth II's mom, on the lips, according to BBC America. 1980: President Ronald Reagan During his term in office, Reagan and the queen met on numerous occasions, beginning in 1980, according to BBC America. Reagan also greeted the queen in Santa Barbara, California. Over the next few days, the two bonded, and along with her husband, the queen even celebrated the Reagans' 31st wedding anniversary together, according to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum. Following his time in office, in 1989, Reagan was made an Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, the highest honor Britain gives to Americans. Fun fact: The Reagans were the first presidential couple to be invited to stay overnight at Windsor Castle, in 1982. 1991: President George H.W. Bush In 1991, President George H.W. Bush and first lady Barbara Bush hosted the queen and prince at the White House for a state arrival ceremony and dinner. Fun fact: Together, they planted a linden tree to replace one that was planted in 1937 to honor the ascension of Elizabeth II's father, King George VI, but the tree was felled during a storm, according to the White House Historical Association. 1994: President Bill Clinton President Bill Clinton first met the queen at a banquet held in England in honor of the 50th anniversary of World War II's D-Day, according to Reuters. The president, first lady Hillary Clinton and first daughter Chelsea Clinton also traveled to England in 2000 and visited Buckingham Palace. Fun fact: In his autobiography, Clinton wrote that he thought the queen would have been a successful politician or diplomat if she wasn't born into royalty. 2003: President George W. Bush President George W. Bush traveled to England in 2003 for a state visit, which included a state banquet. During his trip to London, he also met with Prime Minister Tony Blair, and the two ventured to a pub together. Bush also hosted the queen in Washington, D.C., in 2007. During his speech he pointed to the two nations' joint efforts to combat global terrorism. Fun fact: When her son, Prince Charles, visited the president and first lady, he joked that they shouldn't try to set up then first daughters Jenna and Barbara with his sons, Princes William and Harry, according to BBC America. 2009: President Barack Obama While in London for the G-20 summit, President Barack Obama met with the queen and gave her an iPod that contained videos and photos of her visits to America, as well as songs, according to The New York Times. The president and his wife, first lady Michelle Obama, visited England on another occasion for a state dinner. They reciprocated by holding a state dinner on U.S. soil. Fun fact: Former Obama national security adviser Ben Rhodes said the president compared the queen to his grandmother because the two are both "courteous," "straightforward" and don't "suffer fools," according to People. 2018: President Donald Trump In July, President Donald Trump traveled to the United Kingdom following a NATO summit. During his visit to England, he met the queen, whom he said has a "great and beautiful grace about her." Correction: A previous version of this story said that Donald Trump and the Queen met at Buckingham Palace. This error has been corrected.<doc-sep>Before President Donald Trump met Queen Elizabeth II on Friday, British anti-Trump protesters warned it would not turn out well. Now that the meeting is over, they're counting the ways POTUS "insulted" their beloved monarch. And of course the discussion is taking place on Trump's favorite platform – Twitter. It's not enough that massive demonstrations took place in London and elsewhere, complete with a giant "Trump baby" blimp balloon mocking the president from the skies. Trump tormentors – even self-described "non-royalists" – took to Twitter to acidly note moments during the teatime meeting at Windsor Castle when Trump did something that could be interpreted as a faux pas. None of these moments were especially horrifying: He didn't grab her in a bear hug or trash her in a tweet as "fake news," for instance. But he did keep her waiting for more than 10 minutes (which may not have been his fault), shook her hand instead of bowing, turned his back on her for a few seconds, and he left his jacket open and flapping and his too-long tie trailing. Not off-with-his-head sins, to be sure, but enough to gin up the already peeved anti-Trump crowd in Britain. "I’m not a monarchist by any stretch of the imagination but this is such an insult to Britain. Absolutely clueless, classless, thoughtless, lacking in any dignity and without a shred of respect," sputtered Matthew McGregor. Many of them seized on the TV footage of Trump and the 92-year-old queen preparing to review scarlet-clad troops assembled in the Quadrangle of Windsor Castle where they met. He turns his back on her, walks ahead and looks the other way as the diminutive monarch moves from one side to another behind him. Plus, his jacket hangs open, looking a little sloppy. Trump has been called out on his un-presidential style mistakes before, including at his inauguration when his red tie dropped below the belt line and he left his coat unbuttoned. It is considered impolite to turn one's back to the monarch or walk in front of her. For the 70 years they have been married, her husband, Prince Philip, 97, has always walked a few paces behind her in public. Even prime ministers, after their weekly audience with the monarch, back out of the room when leaving her presence. It's just the expected thing to do. Nobody told Trump, or he forgot. "Very few people are this oblivious to the Actual Queen (images from @itvnews)," British journalist Janine Gibson tweeted in disgust. Gibson is a former top editor of The Guardian, Britain's left-leaning, republican leaning newspaper. "Trump has also turned his back on the Queen. I have always believed this to be a mortal insult to a monarch. #offwithhishead #pulledapartbyhorses," tweeted Ian Beck, perhaps tongue in cheek. The president and first lady Melania Trump were late getting to the castle (or the queen was early), forcing her to wait with some of her palace courtiers under a covered dais in the Quadrangle in temperatures nearing 80 degrees. Wearing gloves. She kept checking her watch. But presidents are captives of whoever is doing the driving or the flying so it may not have been his fault. Royal commentator Victoria Arbiter, who works for CNN, Trump's least favorite news network, insisted he was on time. "For all those asking, no, Trump did not keep the Queen waiting. He was due at 5pm and the motorcade drove into the Quadrangle at 4.59pm," Arbiter noted. Still, critics fumed. Then there was the whole bowing and curtsying business. British men who follow tradition bow when meeting the monarch and women curtsy, but they don't have to anymore and Americans certainly don't have to (1776 and all that). You're supposed to shake her gloved hand when she offers it and that's fine (as long as you don't grip hard enough to leave white marks the way French President Emanuel Macron and Trump have done to each other.) "Not a royalist but didn't like the way Trump was late for the Queen didn't bow & walked in front of her. Shows how disrespectful to women he is if he is like that to the most famous woman in the world!," tweeted a user named Bea. A user called Page Nine,a self-described anti-royalist, was nevertheless annoyed enough to post a patriotic pastiche of what looked like the ancient heroic British queen Boudica, her shield covered in a Union Jack, a British lion at her side. "I'm not a great Royalist - but that is incredible! Trump was in that moment oblivious of the Queen, who in some ways might reasonably be regarded as one of the World's greatest leaders? Also given all the formality he didn't button his jacket? Maybe a bit odd?," puzzled Adrian Ludlam. "Trump is rude & ignorant to everyone else. Including being extremely disrespectful to Prime Minister May & Queen Elizabeth when he was a Guest! He has earned every insult, every hate, every protest. Smarten up, eh?," tweeted Hope Aldridge. "Who does Trump thinks he is. He comes over to our country on a supposedly working visit berates our Prime Minister on Brexit then back tracks accusing our papers of spreading fake news. Then to add insult to injury he keeps the Queen waiting 15 mins, doesn't bow just shakes her," tweeted Melanie Cassandra Burstall.<doc-sep>
The etiquette and behavior of President Donald Trump have come under scrutiny after he met Queen Elizabeth II during his two day official visit to the U.K. Trump, who became the 13th U.S. president the Queen has met during her 66 year reign, visited the British monarch at Windsor Castle in the English county of Berkshire following his meeting with Prime Minister Theresa May. After making the Queen wait for around 15 minutes, social media users were also critical of Trump as he was being shown the Guard of Honor by the Queen. After using her hands to direct him the right way, footage shows Trump turning his back on the Queen, then stopping right in front of her and cutting off her path, awkwardly forcing the 92-year-old to walk around him. Despite only lasting a few seconds, the moment was jumped upon by Twitter users, with many questioning whether Trump actually broke royal protocol at Windsor Castle. Many also asked whether Trump should have bowed his head when he met the Queen outside the castle. Did Donald Trump just WALK IN FRONT OF THE QUEEN?!?!?! — Halla Mohieddeen (@hallamohieddeen) July 13, 2018 I’m not a monarchist by any stretch of the imagination but this is such an insult to Britain. Absolutely clueless, classless, thoughtless, lacking in any dignity and without a shred of respect. pic.twitter.com/RBFXe4yZ9H — Matthew McGregor (@mcgregormt) July 13, 2018 Trump breaks royal protocol THREE times: President keeps the Queen waiting for more than 10 minutes in 80° heat, fails to bow and then walks in front of her…causing her to shoo him out of the way. Classless POS.#25thAmendmentNow pic.twitter.com/oGPEmTCgqm — Mr. Wolf 🐺 (@TheeWolfthing) July 14, 2018 According to Grant Harrold, the royal etiquette expert and former butler to several members of the Royal family including Prince Charles and Prince William and Harry, Trump did indeed break protocol by standing in front of the Queen. "He should not walk in front of the Queen and he did, as they walked over to inspect the guard of honor," he told Harper's Bazaar U.K. "As we could all see, at one point the Queen completely disappeared behind him which should not have happened." "The president should be walking over side by side with the Queen and not in front. I am sure this was not intentionally done, but it did not look very good." Ahead of the meeting, Trump described the Queen as a "tremendous woman" during the infamous interview with the Sun newspaper he gave on the evening of his first day in the U.K. "I think she represents her country so well," he told the British tabloid. "If you think of it, for so many years she has represented her country, she has really never made a mistake. You don't see, like, anything embarrassing. She is just an incredible woman." Following his meeting with the Queen, Trump and the First Lady flew up to Scotland where they are expected to stay at Trump's Turnberry golf resort. Trump's visit to the U.K. was met with massive protests across the country, most notably in central London.