President Trump concludes his three-day visit to the United Kingdom today.
The president was welcomed Monday by the Queen of England, toured Westminster Abbey, and attended a state banquet in Buckingham Palace. Yesterday, he met with the prime minister, then attended a banquet at the US ambassador’s residence.
Today, President Trump will join Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles at a national commemorative event in Portsmouth for the seventy-fifth anniversary of the D-Day landings (about which I plan to write tomorrow).
When the queen was called “a priggish schoolgirl”
Media coverage has focused largely on protests against the president. Of course, this is not the first time a US president has faced criticism abroad.
When President George W. Bush visited the UK in 2003, more than one hundred thousand people formed the biggest weekday demonstration London had ever seen (which is remarkable, given that the city was founded by the Romans around AD 50). Their protests climaxed with the toppling of an effigy of the president.
Queen Elizabeth is no stranger to criticism herself. A few years after becoming queen, she was attacked by a journalist for her speeches: “The personality conveyed by the utterances which are put into her mouth is that of a priggish schoolgirl, captain of the hockey team, a prefect, and a recent candidate for Confirmation.”
The Netflix series The Crown portrays the queen as meeting with this critic and adjusting her speeches to relate more effectively with ordinary people. Whether their meeting occurred or not, changes did occur afterward. The queen delivered her first televised Christmas Message that year, replaced upper-class debutante “presentation parties” with more accessible “garden parties,” and took other steps to change the image of the royal family.
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