In 1951, the Queen, then Princess Elizabeth, and her late husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, toured Canada in North America.
On November 1, 1951, they met Truman in the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C., where they hosted him for dinner.
She became Queen Elizabeth on February 6, 1952, barely three months after King George V’s death.
Despite the fact that their first encounter took place in the United States, President Eisenhower wore the British Order of Merit medal that King George VI, the Queen’s father, presented to him after World War II to his dinner with Queen Elizabeth.
The two had a tight friendship, as previously reported by Insider. Eisenhower was reportedly given the Queen’s recipe for grilled scones.
President Kennedy was the first US president to meet Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace, when the Queen and Prince Philip hosted the president and first lady for dinner in 1961, according to the US Embassy and Consulates in the UK.
The Queen was reportedly jealous of the attention Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis received during her trip to the UK, as The Washington Post reported.
The meeting was the subject of an episode of Netflix’s “The Crown.”
The pair were first introduced when Nixon was President Eisenhower’s vice president, as Time reported, but they met as leaders of their countries at Buckingham Palace a few months after he was elected.
Nixon also met Prince Philip, Prince Charles, and Princess Anne during the visit.
The president reportedly tried to set his daughter up with Prince Charles throughout his presidency.
The Queen came to the US during the Bicentennial Celebrations of the Declaration of Independence, according to the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum.
President Gerald Ford and first lady Betty Ford, hosted the Queen and Prince Philip for dinner. The dinner took place under a grand tent, and the Queen and Ford shared a dance during the evening.
Betty Ford documented the visit in her memoirs, writing, “If I hadn’t kept mixing up Your Highness and Your Majesty (he’s His Highness, she’s Her Majesty) I’d give myself four stars for the way that visit went off,” as documented by the Ford Presidential Library.
The Queen first met President Carter during her visit to the US for the Bicentennial celebrations, but she was re-introduced to him as the president in 1977, according to the US Embassy and Consulates in the UK.
He came to Buckingham Palace for dinner, and when President Carter was being introduced to the Queen Mother, he kissed her on the lips, breaking royal protocol, according to the BBC.
“I took a sharp step backwards – not quite far enough,” the Queen Mother said of the encounter, according to the BBC.