Queen Elizabeth smiles while receiving the President of Switzerland Ignazio Cassis and his wife Paola Cassis during an audience at Windsor Castle in April 2022.
(Picture: AP)In November 1951, Princess Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip made their first visit to the United States, 12 years after the princess’s father King George VI had become the first reigning British monarch ever to set foot on American soil, colonial times included.
To help ensure a warm welcome for the young royals, President Truman had given all federal employees time off work and they obligingly lined the streets of Washington to cheer. “When I was a little boy,” declared Truman to the crowds, “I read about a fairy princess, and here she is!”
